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It invests in companies that are developing AI products and services as well as in companies responsible for hardware that helps facilitate AI for big-data uses. INVESTING SPREAD YOUR BETS INVESTORS have had access to artificial intelligence-related stocks and funds for years. It focuses both on companies bringing artificial intelligence to the masses and other businesses and on companies whose products make AI possible. [Extracted from the article]

Top holdings MediaTek and Silergy are a pair of Taiwanese silicon firms. Kyle Woodley@kiplinger.com Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF KEY FACTS SYMBOL: GTEK RECENT PRICE: $38 ASSETS: $259.9 million START DATE: September 14, 2021 STOCK HOLDINGS: 67 AVG. PRICE-EARNINGS RATIO: 30.7 AVG. MARKET VALUE: $31.5 billion TOP FIVE HOLDINGS Represent 14.1% of assets MARVELL TECHNOLOGY (MRVL) 3.7% ENTEGRIS (ENTG) 2.8% MEDIATEK (MDTKF) 2.6% SILERGY (6415.TW)* 2.5% WORKDAY (WDAY) 2.5% 0.75% ANNUAL EXPENSE RATIO $75 annually on a $10,000 investment Popular Actively Managed ETFs Launched in 2021 As of December 3, 2021. ETF SPOTLIGHT SINCE THEIR DEBUT IN FINANCIAL markets, the vast majority of exchange-traded funds have been passively managed, either tracking an index or tweaking an index in some way to achieve their investment goals. [Extracted from the article]

"These companies do not need to spend a lot of money to earn their returns", says Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research for Wall Street research firm CFRA. GRAPH: A New Fund to Hedge Inflation GRAPH: A New Fund to Hedge Inflation ETF SPOTLIGHT ECONOMISTS CAN (AND DO) ARGUE over just how permanent current inflationary pressures are. [Extracted from the article]

A new exchange-traded fund launched in March seeks to tap into the wisdom of the social media crowd. Top holdings include mega-growth names such as Facebook (FB) and Amazon.com (AMZN), high-growth plays such as e-sports gaming company DraftKings (DKNG), and previously trod-upon stocks including Ford (F) and American Airlines (AAL). It's a fitting launch, given that the past year has seen a groundswell in day trading, especially among young people taking their stock-picking cues from Reddit forums and other social media platforms. [Extracted from the article]

ETF SPOTLIGHT AMONG THE PREDICTIONS FOR 2021 IS THAT, after more than a decade of lagging performance, underappreciated, value-oriented stocks will finally shine brighter than growth-focused names. In addition to strong performance compared with its peers, as determined by fund-tracker Morningstar, the fund's 51.3% cumulative total return since its late-2018 inception has more than tripled that of traditional value funds, such as the Vanguard Value ETF and iShares Russell 1000 Value ETF, over the same period. SOURCES: Direxion, Morningstar, Yahoo Finance GRAPH: A Value Fund With a Twist GRAPH: A Value Fund With a Twist GRAPH: A Value Fund With a Twist. [Extracted from the article]

ETF SPOTLIGHT IF YOU BELIEVE IN AMERICA'S ABILITY TO recover from the one-two punch of the pandemic and ensuing recession, you should have faith in the industrial sector. FIDELITY MSCI INDUSTRIALS INDEX ETF, a member of the Kiplinger ETF 20 list of our favorite ETFs, isn't the oldest fund invested in the sector, nor is it the largest. The tilt toward smaller companies provides a "growthier" edge for the ETF, which nonetheless offers investors below-average risk, according to investment research firm Morningstar. [Extracted from the article]

INVESTING ETF SPOTLIGHT VIDEO GAMES AREN'T JUST GAMES. Gaming is global, and so is HERO; it has 71% of assets invested outside of the U.S. The ETF will only invest in companies that derive at least 50% of their revenues from video game-related businesses. You will see graphics chipmaker Nvidia, whose products power high-end gaming rigs; Chinese internet and video gaming company NetEase; and familiar Japanese powerhouse Nintendo. [Extracted from the article]

LEGG MASON LOW VOLATILITY HIGH DIVIDEND ETF is one of a few low-vol funds that target holdings that not only are more stable than the market overall but also dole out above-average income. The ETF's 80 current holdings are heavy in utilities, real estate stocks and consumer staples, which together account for 56% of assets. Top holdings with generous dividends, such as Duke Energy, give the ETF a yield of 3.3%, far above the 1.9% yield of Standard & Poor's 500-stock index and that of most traditional U.S. low-vol funds. [Extracted from the article]

ETFs that do hold these REITs, meanwhile, often leave out the homebuilders and DIY shops. The ETF puts 30% of assets in homebuild- ers and construction stocks, and another 30% in real estate operators such as apartment REITs. Income-friendly REITs offset low-yielding growth companies in the fund. [Extracted from the article]

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