ETF vs. Hedge Fund Performance Series: Health Care and Technology Funds

The ETF space continues to grow, taking share from mutual funds. With the introduction of ETFs that offer returns based on exposure to a certain industry or strategy, however, investors now may be looking to ETFs as an alternative to hedge funds. In the first of a series of reports in which TABB Group compares the performance of hedge funds with that of exchange traded funds, TABB head of derivatives research Russell Rhoads explores hedge funds focusing on the health care and technology sectors of the market, comparing those results to the largest ETFs offering exposure to these sectors.