October 25
Stay Away From Single Company Investment Risk Instead Choose Sector ETF:
Exchange traded fund has offered a new perspective to the investors; these funds provide innovative ways of investing coupled with low management fees and expense ratio. Further, ETF has an edge when compared to Mutual Funds because of its feature where ETFs can be traded like stock on the exchange. And like Mutual Funds investors trading in ETFs need not wait for the closing price to trade, ETFs can be traded anytime during the trading session at the ongoing market price.
Several different types of ETF are being offered to ordinary traders. One can keep away from the hassle involved with holding physical commodities or precious metal and can buy Commodity ETFs. Likewise, if one is optimistic about the overall markets they can buy Index ETF and if someone thinks that markets are going to fall then they can buy Index Short ETFs. If the local economy is facing recession then one can invest in the Emerging markets Index ETFs or Currency ETFs of Emerging Markets. One of such products introduced and is very popular amongst traders is Sector ETF; Fund Manager who manages this fund invests money into companies of a particular sector.
If a trader believes that a particular sector is going to perform better based on the current market scenario in the past they used to invest in a particular company which belongs to that sector. Investment of this type becomes risky since you are weighing a huge part of your portfolio into one company. By investing in Sector ETF trader is taking advantage of the whole sector and at the same time staying away from the risk of being heavily invested in a particular company’s stock. With Sector ETF there are sub categories, so there are funds available in the market which invests in companies of a particular sector but based only in one market, there are also some that invest in a particular sector’s companies domiciled locally as well as internationally.
Some of the popular Sector ETF is as follows: Merrill Lynch Retail HOLDERs (RTH): These Funds invest in companies of retail sector based in the United States. Retail HOLDERs is listed with NASDAQ, top 5 holdings of this fund are Wal-mart stores, Home Depot, Target Corporation, Walgreen Company and Amazon.com. Likewise there is Vanguard Information Technology ETF, Select Sector SPDR Fund – Financial, iShares Dow Jones U.S. Telecommunications Index Fund and many more.
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