A WELL-BALANCED ETF

摘要

For those who wish their portfolios had been better insulated from the technology stock crash in 2000 or the financial stock meltdown last fall, there is the new Equal Sector Weight ETF. Launched on July 7 by ALPS Advisors, a Denver-based financial services firm, this exchange-traded fund owns equal holdings of the nine Select Sector SPDRs, ETFs that track the performance of sectors in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index.rnAccording to a back-test of the methodology, the Equal Sector Weight ETF would have lost 35% in 2008, compared with the S&P 500's 37% decline.