• NuShares Enhanced Yield 1-5 Year U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF (NUSA) is designed to provide diversified exposure to the shorter-maturity segment of the U.S. investment grade fixed-income market with the potential for higher yield while maintaining comparable risk.
• EventShares Republican Policies Fund (GOP) and EventShares Democratic Policies Fund (DEMS) are what their tickers imply. GOP provides access to a diversified range of companies and industries that would benefit from Republican policies, while DEMS offers access to companies that would be expected to benefit from Democratic policies. Policies are telegraphed to the public long before elections are held and can be acted upon for investment purposes, EventShares says.
• WisdomTree Emerging Markets ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (XSOE) concentrates on companies in emerging markets that are not owned by the government. It avoids companies where the state owns even just a part of the assets, and it has shown consistent returns, WisdomTree says.
• Fidelity Dividend ETF for Rising Rates (FDRR) is an actively designed and passively managed ETF appropriate for retirement investments, according to Fidelity. The fund tracks an index of large- and mid-cap companies in developed nations that exhibit strong dividend characteristics and have a positive correlation to increasing 10-year U.S. Treasury yields.
• ALPS Medical Breakthroughs ETF (SBIO) concentrates on companies operating on the R&D level of drug research in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. Most drug development in the biotech space today is happening at the smaller end of the spectrum, where ALPS says the disruption in the drug market is happening.
• Goldman Sachs Hedge Industry VIP ETF (GVIP) tracks the GS Hedge Fund VIP Index, which consists of fundamentally driven hedge fund managers‘ “Very-Important-Positions” that appear most frequently among their top 10 long equity holdings.