Comments on: My healthcare equity allocation http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/ Personal finance and investing in mutual funds and ETFs Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: indexfundfan http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-694 indexfundfan Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:01:22 +0000 http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-694 Reason for PBE is because XIB has very low trading volume while IBB contains only Biotech stocks trading on the Nasdaq, plus it is heavily weighted by one stock (AMGN at ~15%). Reason for PBE is because XIB has very low trading volume while IBB contains only Biotech stocks trading on the Nasdaq, plus it is heavily weighted by one stock (AMGN at ~15%).

]]> By: choozm http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-688 choozm Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:10:30 +0000 http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-688 Looks like you are tracking 3 indexes from 3 different providers. Won't it be better to use one index provider to track all four sub sectors? Hmm... But DJ only track 1, 3, and 4. SPDR only tracks 1 and 2, and it is part of S&P 500. I wonder why you choose PBE that has higher ER than XIB and IBB? Looks like you are tracking 3 indexes from 3 different providers. Won’t it be better to use one index provider to track all four sub sectors? Hmm… But DJ only track 1, 3, and 4. SPDR only tracks 1 and 2, and it is part of S&P 500.

I wonder why you choose PBE that has higher ER than XIB and IBB?

]]> By: choozm http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-687 choozm Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:03:21 +0000 http://www.indextown.com/archives/2006/11/06/my-healthcare-equity-allocation/#comment-687 Looks like you are tracking three indexes from different providers. Won't it be better to choose one index provider that has all the four sub indexes? Hmm.. but looks like there is no index that covers all four sub-sectors. DJ index covers 1, 3 and 4. SPDR covers 1 and 2. SPDR are all large caps as it is a portion of S&P 500. I wonder why you choose PBE that has higher ER than XBI and IBB? Looks like you are tracking three indexes from different providers. Won’t it be better to choose one index provider that has all the four sub indexes? Hmm.. but looks like there is no index that covers all four sub-sectors. DJ index covers 1, 3 and 4. SPDR covers 1 and 2. SPDR are all large caps as it is a portion of S&P 500.

I wonder why you choose PBE that has higher ER than XBI and IBB?

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