To help answer that question its best to look at
the funds top holdings to see what caused the outperformance.
Several other of
the funds top holdings showed great returns as well, as Geron posted a 8.47 % gain during the week and Prothena (NASDAQ: PRTA) showed a gain of more than 6 %.
Not exact matches
According to Mackenzie Investments, if you invested $ 100,000 in arncorporate class
fund that earned 6 % a year, you would have $ 370,268 rnafter 25 years, assuming it's taxed annually at the
top marginal rate.rnIf you
held an interest - paying investment over the same period, yournwould have made $ 239,841.
But the
fund has substantially increased that position and it is now a
top - five
holding, according to a person familiar with the
fund.
CNBC's Tyler Mathisen speaks with Sarah Ketterer, Causeway Capital Management CEO, about being named Morningstar's
top international
fund manager of 2017 and the firm's
holdings.
For example, the US Department of Education's Race to the
Top Fund, which offered $ 4 billion in grants to states that developed successful educational reforms, spurred innovations that
hold promise for school systems across the country.
The
fund owns stocks in hotels and other leisure companies, but almost 60 % of it is made up of restaurant stocks —
top holdings include Starbucks, Yum Brands, and McDonald's.
Meanwhile, Harvard Business School
held strong with 34 startups out of the
top 100, including nine out of the 20 with the most
funding.
Schwab is one of the
fund's
top five
holdings, along with Bank of New York Mellon, Alphabet Class C, PepsiCo and Paychex, as of year - end 2017.
The
fund's
top five
holdings include MuleSoft, Syntel and Google - parent Alphabet Class C as of Jan. 31, according to Morningstar.
For the past 15 years, Goldman Sachs has been tracking S&P 500 companies with the highest hedge
fund ownership, along with its Hedge Fund VIP List, a set of companies that appear most in hedge funds» top 10 holdi
fund ownership, along with its Hedge
Fund VIP List, a set of companies that appear most in hedge funds» top 10 holdi
Fund VIP List, a set of companies that appear most in hedge
funds»
top 10
holdings.
Bitwise's flagship
fund, the HOLD 10 Private Index Fund, tracks a market - cap - weighted index of the top 10 cryptocurrencies, representing approximately 80 % of the total market capitalization of the cryptomar
fund, the
HOLD 10 Private Index
Fund, tracks a market - cap - weighted index of the top 10 cryptocurrencies, representing approximately 80 % of the total market capitalization of the cryptomar
Fund, tracks a market - cap - weighted index of the
top 10 cryptocurrencies, representing approximately 80 % of the total market capitalization of the cryptomarket.
The bitcoin trust is the
top holding of two of Ark Invest's exchange - traded
funds, which unsurprisingly were among the
top performing ETFs last year, according to ETF.com.
Some of the most widely
held mutual
funds in 401 (k) plans, including the $ 116.1 billion Fidelity Contrafund and the $ 39.3 billion Fidelity Growth Company, have large tech stakes and big chunks of assets concentrated in their
top five
holdings.
Only KARS has Tesla among its
top 10
holdings, at a
fund weighting of 3.5 percent.
Even though some of the first autonomous vehicle ETFs have major automakers including BMW, GM, Ford and Tesla among
top holdings, «These are more tech
funds than automakers [stock]
funds» said Drew Voros, editor - in - chief of ETF.com.
GBTC is up more than 2,300 percent this year and is the largest
holding of the
top - performing ARK Innovation Exchange - Traded
Fund (ARKK) at nearly 10.5 percent as of Monday.
The man knows people; he has
held top positions at Compaq and 3Com and worked as an entrepreneur - in - residence at the Mayfield
Fund before founding a software company that was later sold to Cisco.
The
Top 5 VC
funding deals in Q3 2014 were the $ 70 million raise by DXY (Ting Ting Group), an online healthcare community for medical institutions and healthcare providers in China, from Tencent
Holdings Limited, a provider of comprehensive internet services in China, followed by the $ 52 million raise by Proteus Digital Health, a developer of products and services integrating medicines with ingestible sensors, wearable sensors, mobile and cloud computing.
Led by BPI France and Temasek
Holdings, a number of
top sovereign wealth
funds have increased their healthcare investments over the past five years.
Portfolio
Holdings for Non-US
Funds / Non-US Advisers - From time to time Franklin Templeton Resources Inc (FRI) and its subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and related and affiliated business entities («FTI») may provide you with a partial listing of portfolio securities including but not limited to top contributors and detractors to portfolio performance owned by one or more non-US domiciled funds that are registered or passported with local regulatory authorities and are sponsored by FTI (each a «Fund» and together «Funds») and any such additional information relating to the Fund (s) that may not otherwise be publicly dissemin
Funds / Non-US Advisers - From time to time Franklin Templeton Resources Inc (FRI) and its subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and related and affiliated business entities («FTI») may provide you with a partial listing of portfolio securities including but not limited to
top contributors and detractors to portfolio performance owned by one or more non-US domiciled
funds that are registered or passported with local regulatory authorities and are sponsored by FTI (each a «Fund» and together «Funds») and any such additional information relating to the Fund (s) that may not otherwise be publicly dissemin
funds that are registered or passported with local regulatory authorities and are sponsored by FTI (each a «
Fund» and together «
Funds») and any such additional information relating to the Fund (s) that may not otherwise be publicly dissemin
Funds») and any such additional information relating to the
Fund (s) that may not otherwise be publicly disseminated.
This may include having
held a senior position at another
top - quality brand hedge
fund, having spun out of a
top investment bank proprietary trading desk, or having been seeded by a well - known investor.
U.S. Global Jets ETF (JETS) is a concentrated
fund with 34
holdings and the
top - 10
holdings representing 70 % of total assets.
The
fund's
top 10
holdings are 90 % Neutral - or - better rated while 60 % receive an Attractive - or - better rating.
It is not surprising then, that my two
top - rated Consumer Staples ETFs, Vanguard Consumer Staples ETF (VDC) and Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR (XLP) allocate over 7 % of their
holdings to WMT and are rated 4 - star or Attractive
funds.
On
top of all this, the
fund's index
holds a synthetic protective put on itself — in practice, this means DMRI shifts more assets into notes and bills after a significant decline, potentially staving off an even larger crash.
Investments, expressed as a percentage of the total portfolio assets, in the
fund's
top 10 portfolio
holdings.
Used in combination with number of
holdings, the percent of portfolio in
top 10 investments figure can indicate how concentrated a
fund is.
2014.11.06 RBC Global Asset Management Inc. wins
top honours in multiple categories at Lipper Canada
Fund Awards RBC Global Asset Management Inc. (RBC GAM Inc.) was recognized for investment excellence at the 2014 Lipper Canada
Fund Awards,
held last evening in Toronto...
The quantity of gold
held by the
top 10 central banks, including the International Monetary
Fund (IMF), is estimated to be in excess of 25,000 tons, which makes them the third - largest investor in the precious metal following retail investments in jewellery and bars / coins.
Based on prior research / experience and performances of the
top ten (long)
holdings from quarterly Form 13F filings for selected
fund managers during January 2000 through December 2014, he concludes that: Keep Reading
The
fund's
top 10
holdings comprise 25 % of assets and are 90 % Neutral - or - better rated.
An Australian health care services company was the
Fund's
top contributor in the quarter, while a Swiss bank
holding company was the largest detractor.
The firms at the
top of the industry — Barrick, Newmont and Goldcorp — make up roughly 1/3 of its portfolio, and over 60 % of
fund assets are in the
top 10
holdings.
Apple takes the eleventh spot on the list and is a
top 10
holding in 34 hedge
funds.
It is also one of the largest
holdings in my
top - rated Materials sector
fund: Materials Select Sector SPDR [s: XLB].
The
fund's
top holdings represent true industry leaders, among them Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Google, and Cisco.
By comparison, Amazon is the most popular tech stock with hedge
funds — as a
top 10
holding in 80
funds.
Microsoft follows as a
top holding in 52
funds.
Look up the
holdings within your
funds, and you're likely to find the
top 10 all include Apple, Microsoft and GE.
Finally, Spencer stated his
fund's
top holding is NXP Semiconductors NV (NASDAQ: NXPI) as the company stands to benefit from a growing trend of «technology content moving in to new areas» such as industrial and automotive.
Even though Apple is a «big five» technology company, Goldman Sachs analysts said in a note that it's not in the «
top five»
holdings by hedge
funds, according to news from CNBC.
The
fund's
top holdings, performance, and overall riskiness remain essentially in line with our benchmark.
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Find out which of the four largest real estate investment trusts (REITs)
hold the
top five positions in the $ 51 billion Vanguard REIT Index
Fund.
Top holdings But what specifically happened this week that caused the
fund to do so well?
Inclusion of Cash as one of the assets in the SACEMS universe of exchange - traded
funds (ETF) already prevents the SACEMS
Top 1 portfolio from
holding an asset with negative past returns.
From the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), with outflows of $ 2.4 billion, to the Financial Select Sector SPDR
Fund (XLF), with outflows of $ 926 million, to the iShares Select Dividend ETF (DVY), with outflows of $ 227 million — every single ETF on the
top 10 outflows list
holds U.S. equities.
Looking at the
top 50
holdings for our Global Resources
Fund, what jumps out immediately is just how cheap these stocks are relative to their growth rate, trading at 20 times in the last quarter earnings.