Invesco launched an exchange-traded fund designed to provide buyers publicity to the highest 45% of firms within the Nasdaq-100 Index.
Brian Hartigan, the agency’s international head of ETFs and index devices, runs Invesco QQQ Belief (QQQ), which is the fifth-largest ETF on the planet, in accordance with VettaFi. Now Hartigan is taking over the Invesco Prime QQQ ETF (QBIG), which launched Dec. 4.
Based on Hartigan, there’s a demand to seize the megacap focus story inside the Nasdaq.
“That is what buyers had been asking us for. How do I dial up that, that publicity and actually seize the vast majority of the drivers of returns within the Nasdaq,” Hartigan mentioned on CNBC’s “ETF Edge” this week.
As of Wednesday, a few of Invesco Prime QQQ ETF’s high holdings had been Apple, Nvidia and Microsoft, in accordance with Invesco’s web site.
Hartigan notes buyers can steadiness out their portfolio threat with related funds.
“You have got this precision that buyers are utilizing ETFs to essentially steadiness out both beneath focus or over focus for his or her portfolios,” he mentioned.
As of Friday’s shut, Invesco Prime QQQ ETF is up round 5.5% since its debut.
Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Retailer, notes different new funds have launched to permit buyers to be targeting megacaps.
“We have seen different issuers launch merchandise both focusing on the biggest mega-cap names or particularly avoiding them. And what that tells you is issuers are clearly conscious of this battle of the markets proper now. I feel we’ll proceed to see kind of this tug of warfare play out shifting ahead,” he mentioned.
