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About First Trust Health Care AlphaDEX
Expense ratio
0.62%
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Inception date
May 8, 2007
FXH tracks a quant-driven index that attempts to achieve excess returns by selecting health care stocks based on growth and value factors, and equal-weighting them in tiers. The portfolio offers noteworthy mid-cap exposure, downplaying familiar large-cap names relative to cap-weighted peer funds. Additionally, FXH underweights pharmaceuticals relative to the market, but allows a significant exposure to biotechnology and healthcare providers. Overall, this fund offers a smart beta approach to the US health care space, tilting away from big pharma and towards other facets of health care. The index is reconstituted and rebalanced on a quarterly basis.
Classification
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Exposure type
Health Technology
Health Services
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