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The financial and technology sectors are also overweight areas. For instance, IBLN includes 20.4% technology, but it does not hold much financial exposure. ALFA, on the other hand, includes 18.2% tech and 8.0% financials

The Global X Guru Index ETF (NYSEArca: GURU), which includes high conviction picks taken from a select pool of hedge fund 13F information, includes a 22.1% tilt toward consumer discretionary, along with 14.0% financials and 15.6% tech, but a lighter 11.1% to healthcare.

The managers of the Validea Market Legends ETF (NasdaqGM: VALX), an actively managed exchange traded fund, that selects and scores stocks using proprietary models based on the approaches of famous investors such as Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch, holds tech 22.0%, consumer discretionary 19.0%, financials 18.9% and healthcare 11.2%.

Potential investors, though, should be aware that these ETFs select company holdings based on previous quarterly 13F data, so there is a chance that billionaire investors may have significantly changed their outlook through the course of the new quarter.

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Max Chen contributed to this article.