XShares Launches Nine More HealthShares ETFs

XShares Advisors LLC has added nine HealthShares exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to its lineup, bringing the number of these publicly traded funds to 14.
Each HealthShares ETF represents a specific areas of the healthcare, life science and biotechnology industries, and each tracks a collection of large, mid and small-cap stocks that addresses a distinct sub-segment of healthcare, such as the diagnosis and treatment of specific therapeutic areas (e.g. cardiology, cancer, infectious disease, etc.) and the development of medical devices (e.g. orthopedic repair, cardio device, etc.).

Each HealthShares ETF is comprised of 22-25 stocks, except the HealthShares Composite, which has 80 stocks and tracks an index that is based on a proprietary intellectual model with well defined quantitative parameters developed by XShares Group LLC, the parent of XShares Advisors LLC.

The nine ETFs that began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Monday are:
  • HealthShares Autoimmune-Inflammation ETF (ticker: HHA)
  • HealthShares Cancer ETF (HHK)
  • HealthShares Cardiology ETF (HRD)
  • HealthShares GI/Gender Health ETF (HHU)
  • HealthShares Metabolic-Endocrine Disorders ETF (HHM)
  • HealthShares Neuroscience ETF (HHN)
  • HealthShares Ophthalmology ETF (HHZ)
  • HealthShares Respiratory/Pulmonary ETF (HHR)
  • HealthShares Composite ETF (HHQ)
For more information, visit the company’s website at: www.healthsharesinc.com.

Course Helps Advisers Understand Female Focus

A new series of workshops is targeted at helping advisers understand the difference between the investment styles of women and men.

Delia Passi and Kaplan Financial are offering a series of workshops for financial and insurance advisers to help them better understand the women’s market. Passi is author of Winning the Toughest Customer: The Essential Guide to Selling to Women and former Vice President of the Working Woman Network and Group Publisher of Working Woman and Working Mother magazines and Kaplan Financial is a source of education and compliance solutions for insurance and financial services institutions and individuals.

“Women are increasing their share of the investment market, but financial and insurance professionals selling to them must appreciate what they expect, including more personal time and attention,’ said Passi, in a press release, which also said that 43% of Americans with investment assets of $500,000 or more are women. “Female clients want their information face-to-face, in a one-on-one meeting or in simple account statements.’

The program, already available, will be delivered through three consecutive classroom workshops held over three to six months. The workshops will each have a companion online course and a special audio review CD that reinforces the key points covered and will focus on the key differences in selling financial products to women.

The workshops include:

  • Details Matter – You and your environment are equally important in her decision to do business with you.
  • Speak So She Listens, Listen So She Speaks – Communications skills to gather information and build a trusting relationship with her are essential.
  • Keep the Relationship Alive – If you win her trust, she will refer you to her friends, family and colleagues.

More information on the workshops can be found by calling 1.800.934.0600.

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