PowerShares S&P SmallCap Energy Portfolios (NasdaqGS: PSCE)
Year-to-date return: 45.6%
Total net assets: $44.0 million
Comment: We are in the midst of a new oil boom, with the U.S. potentially overtaking Russia as the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas. The recent surge in U.S. output is attributed to new “fracking” techniques in shale-rock formations of oil and natural gas that were previously unmanageable. [Capitalize on the U.S. Oil Boom with Yield-Generating MLP ETFs]