Health care was hot last week with Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSE:XLV) registering a 2.65% gain for the week and iShares Dow Jones Health Care Select Sector Index (NYSE:IHF) jumping 3.5% from last week��s close.
That trend is likely to continue because in spite of a stagnant economy and busted housing industry, the US healthcare industry will have strong fundamentals behind it over the next twenty years.
With the baby-boomers retiring in droves, the healthcare industry is likely to experience America��s next large wave of capital growth, and so ETF investors have many opportunities to potentially reap these gains by deploying health care ETFs in their portfolios.
Investors can choose from more than twenty healthcare related ETFs which include regular ETFS, leveraged ETFs and even inverse ETFs which can make money even in down markets.
A widely held healthcare ETF is the Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF (NYSE:XLV) which tracks the Health Care Sector Select Index and includes holdings in Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and Abbot Laboratories.
