While the rest of the energy and retail sectors have been in a prolonged slump, clean energy and online retail ETFs have been posting supersized returns, according to First Bridge data. Over the past three months as the coronavirus pandemic ravaged its way through the United States, 12 funds holding shares of companies in these industries were among those that posted the highest returns.
Data as of 8/24/2020. Minimum of $5 million in net assets, excludes inverse and leveraged ETFs.
Aniket Ullal is VP, ETF Data and Analytics for CFRA, one of the world’s largest providers of independent investment research. Aniket founded First Bridge Data, a leading source for global ETF data and analytics that was acquired by CFRA in August 2019.
Prior to starting First Bridge, he had product management responsibility for S&P’s US indices, including the widely followed S&P 500 and S&P/Case-Shiller indices. These indices have over $1Trillion in ETF assets tracking them.
Aniket is the author of 'ETF Investment Strategies' (McGraw-Hill; 2013). He is a graduate of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.