Sector Investing

Diversified exposure that is liquid, transparent and low cost

Sector ETFs provide you a basket of stocks that are focused on targeted sector or industry providing you a diversified exposure that is liquid, transparent and low cost.

Diversified Exposure: The basket of stocks that are focused on a targeted sector or industry provides diversification which helps mitigate the singe stock risk and lower overall volatility.
High liquidity: While the ETF is a basket of stocks, they trade just like an individual stocks, so that you can quickly move in or move out of the position to factor in your market views.
Save time and effort: Save time and effort of single stock research and focus on the sector as a whole.
Low Cost: With one trade, you can get access to 10-100 different companies within one sector
Rebalancing: Sector ETFs stay pure to the desired investment theme and rebalance for the investors to the index target weights

Strategic Allocation: Sector ETFs can be used to complement one’s portfolio to efficiently overweight a part of the market. The Canadian market for example is very concentrated in several different sectors: Financials, Energy, Industrials and Materials. For investors using a broad market Canadian ETF they may be underexposed to other areas of the market. For example, the Health Care and Info Tech sectors in Canada are extremely small relative to the global economy. Canadian investors may consider U.S. and global sectors for a more diversified portfolio. Using ETFs as a strategic allocation helps investors fill in gaps in their portfolios.
Tactical Allocation: A popular way that sector ETFs are used by investors is to employ a sector rotation strategy based on the economic cycle. Fluctuations within an economic cycle consists of contraction (recession) and expansion (growth). Within a market cycle defensive sectors (Utilities, Consumer Staples) tend to perform well during recession and economic troughs and cyclical sectors (Financials, Industrials, and Information Tech) tend to do well when the economy is expanding. Therefore, using sector ETFs to rotate into relevant sectors helps some investors play the economic cycle.

An ETF that invests an equal amount in every company in the ETF’s portfolio, regardless of market capitalization. This results better diversification and less single stock risk in a portfolio which can result from a market capitalization approach.

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