iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare (ETF)

• Healthcare Helps Your Portfolio’s Wellbeing

  By Jeff Stouffer - May 5, 2013 | Tickers: GILD, IYH, JNJ, MRK, PFE

  An allocation to Healthcare investment strategies can be good for the wellbeing of your portfolio. Looking into the iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare Sector Index Fund (NYSEMKT: IYH), an exchange-traded fund, I find a lot of positive results, even with the anchor effect associated with 2008. The one-year return is 30.7%, the three-year return is 17.66% and the five-year return is 10.99%. This ETF was brought to more »

• Three Healthcare ETFs That May be Poised to Rebound

  By Jeff Stouffer - September 5, 2012 | Tickers: FBT, XLV, IYH, JNJ, REGN

  Political events have always had an effect on the state of the healthcare industry. Now that a lot of the unknowns from a few years ago have come and gone, it appears that structural adjustments to the industry have commenced and a return to positive momentum is in place.

   

  Exchange-traded funds that are based on indexes in this sector offer a cost effective, tax efficient, and transparent portfolio that take more »