The iShares Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare (NYSEArca: IYH) is another alternative, based on the Dow Jones U.S. Healthcare Index, as is Vanguard Healthcare (NYSEArca: VHT) which tracks the MSCI Healthcare Index. Both of these are “market cap” weighted indexes, like XLV.
Finally, two fundamentally weighted/quant weighted ways to play the Healthcare sector include First Trust Healthcare AlphaDEX (NYSEArca: FXH) and PowerShares Dynamic Healthcare (NYSEArca: PTH). Year to date performance figures for these funds register as the following: RYH + 3.33%, XLV +2.70%, VHT + 2.68%, FXH +2.10%, IYH +2.06%, and PTH +0.07%.
Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund
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