Sector ETFs

06 Mar: MLPA

MLPA seeks to replicate USA Oil master limited partnerships (MLP) asset class. MLPs have become very popular in recent years for primarily two reasons: (1) required quarterly distributions provide a steady stream of current income, and (2) because they are partnerships, MLPs avoid corporate income taxes at both the federal and state level as the the tax liability is passed through to the individual partners. By generating at least 90% of income from natural resource-based activities such as transportation and storage, an entity can qualify as an MLP

13 Jan: JETS

JETS is the diversified Airlines Sector ETF. As a subset of the Transports sector, this ETF tracks the XAL almost perfectly but can actually be traded on both the shares & options side (XAL cannot be trades its purely an index in the academic sense purely from a nominal basis.) If you want to play the airlines but don’t know enough about the specifics of each balance sheet, don’t worry this is the perfect diversified instrument for you to play.