Wednesday, January 18

Worst Performing ETF's Of 2005

For those of you who are contrarian by nature, you may be interested in the worst 10 performers of 2005. Many of these areas showed life in the first week of 2006.

Internet Infrastructure Holdrs - IIH (15.80%)
B2B Internet HOLDRS - BHH (10.88%)
Telecom HOLDRS - TTH (9.63%)
Internet HOLDRS - HHH (7.68%)
Internet Architecture HOLDRS - IAH (6.98%)
iShares:S&P Global Telecom - IXP (6.72%)
Consumer Discretionary SPDR - XLY (6.57%)
iShares Goldman Sachs Software Index - IGV (5.53%)
Vanguard Consumer Discretionary VIPERs - VCR (4.10%)
Pharmaceutical HOLDRS - PPH (3.71%)

The worst performing ETFs of 2005 are dominated by Merrill Lynch Technology Holdrs, Telecom, Big Pharma and Large Cap Growth.

1 comment:

jeff said...

Good post. I commented on it at www.etfblogger.com as well. Several of these may be good bets for rest of 2006 despite the performance last year.
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