How to buy ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) from Europe & the UK

So, can European or UK investors invest in ARKK ETF?

Yes – since April 2024, European and UK investors have been able to invest directly in a UCITS version of the ARK Innovation ETF, without needing to access the US-listed version or rely on CFDs.

Following ARK Invest’s acquisition of Rize ETF in 2023 (now rebranded as ARK Invest Europe), the firm launched a suite of actively managed UCITS ETFs listed on the London Stock Exchange, Xetra, CBOE Amsterdam, Borsa Italiana, and SIX. The flagship is the ARK Innovation UCITS ETF (ticker ARKK, ISIN IE000GA3D489), which mirrors the strategy of the US-listed ARKK. It’s classified as Article 8 under SFDR.

Key points before investing:

• Availability: now offered by most European brokers that distribute UCITS ETFs, including Trading 212, XTB, DEGIRO, Interactive Brokers, Hargreaves Lansdown, and Interactive Investor.
• Assets Under Management: ~£204 million / ~$260 million as of May 2026. Funds below the $500 million threshold can be more vulnerable to closure, though ARK Invest Europe is actively building out its UCITS range.
• Total Expense Ratio (TER): 0.75% – high for an ETF, but in line with other actively managed thematic funds.

Other ETFs to consider from ARK Invest:

Another option is to indirectly invest in the “original” ARK Invest ETFs through CFDs – explained below. Since US-listed ETFs do not comply with European UCITS regulations (indicated by their ISIN starting with “US” – for example, US00214Q1040), they cannot be offered to European investors.

Thus, if you search for “ARK Innovation” or “ARKK” on any European broker platform, you will likely find no results unless it is a contract-for-difference (CFD).

What is a CFD?

A CFD allows you to achieve the same returns (positive or negative) as you would by investing directly in the asset by replicating it. It can also provide leverage to potentially increase your returns. Therefore, a CFD can give you the same exposure to the ARKK ETF by mimicking its daily movements (1-to-1 or even in a leveraged format). This is called indirect exposure since you do not actually own the asset.

How accurate is the CFD replication?

In eToro – a Nasdaq-listed broker (ticker ETOR, since May 2025) with over 38 million users – you can buy a CFD on ARKK.. As previously stated, in practice, owning the ARKK ETF or a non-levered CFD of ARKK ETF should give you a very similar performance, as shown here (performance from 21/11/2024 to 21/11/2025):

• ARK Innovation ETF:

• CFD on ARK Innovation ETF:

As you can notice, the “real” ARK Innovation ETF had a one-year performance of +31%. On the other hand, the CFD on ARK Innovation ETF had a one-year performance of +30.91% for the same period.

In eToro, you will not incur any overnight or weekend fees for using a CFD to trade ARKK ETF when using an “X1 leverage” factor. In other words, a 1% move in the ETF will dictate a 1% move in the CFD.

Still, if you want to get more aggressive, you can leverage your exposure up to 5 times (additional leverage fees will apply). The only fee you will face is the spread for buy/selling, which, for US-based instruments, is $0.02 per share.

This is what it looks like before giving a buy/sell order:

For more information on the platform, check our eToro review.

Pros and cons of using a CFD in eToro to invest in ARKK ETF

Other European brokers that allow indirect exposure to ARKK ETF

Trading 212 allows you to get direct exposure to the ARK Innovation ETF. As you can see in the image, it gives you access to it through three different currencies (EUR, USD, and GBP):

In addition, you have access to leveraged trackers: “3x” and “-3x”, meaning you can go long or short, respectively, with a more aggressive exposure.

The non-leveraged ETFs, the one highlighted in the previous image in EUR, present an annual cost of 0.75%, which is worse when compared to the version shown on the eToro platform.

As a side note, Trading 212 is offering one free fractional share worth up to €100! It may be worth checking that out. For more details, check our Trading 212 review.

XTB offers exposure to the ARK Innovation theme. In several European countries (including Portugal) XTB now lists real ETFs in addition to CFDs, so it is worth checking the ARKK UCITS availability directly in the XTB search bar before defaulting to the CFD route.

Where only the CFD is available, XTB historically applies a 5x leverage factor by default, meaning €100 invested gives you €500 of notional exposure (€100 yours plus €400 borrowed), with overnight financing fees and other charges applying.

For more details, check our XTB review.

Bottom Line

All in all, European and UK investors now have multiple ways to get exposure to Cathie Wood’s flagship strategy:

1. The ARK Innovation UCITS ETF (ticker ARKK, ISIN IE000GA3D489), the most direct option, available on most European brokers that distribute UCITS funds (Trading 212, DEGIRO, Interactive Brokers, Hargreaves Lansdown, Interactive Investor, and others).
2. A CFD on ARKK, available on eToro, XTB and similar platforms, useful if you want short or leveraged exposure – but with the trade-off that you don’t own the underlying asset and pay spread costs on every transaction.
3. Buying the US-listed ARKK directly via Interactive Brokers, if you specifically want the original US fund and your jurisdiction allows it (note that retail investors in the EEA generally face PRIIPs-related restrictions on US ETFs).

Nobody knows how “disruptive technology” will behave in the next market cycle. We continue to believe that ARK’s funds offer investors a way to participate in long-term thematic opportunities across robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, multiomic sequencing and blockchain technology – while keeping in mind that thematic, actively-managed strategies carry concentrated risks and significant historical volatility.

We hope this guide helped clarify how ARKK is currently accessible for European and UK investors.