Health Care Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLV)

This tends to be late stage and has been growing rapidly in the last 3-to-4 months. It is just starting to break out. Within the underlying sector, more industries are starting to do well pharma, services, distributors and hospitals are all improving and the US-based policy risk seems to be toning down. (Analysts’ price target was not provided)

A US healthcare ETF? He would buy one of the Spider sector ETF's. This one has very, very low costs, and is very liquid. It is well diversified. If you want something that has Canadian hedging, then you can buy ZUH-T from the Bank of Montréal.

The 2^nd best performing sector in the S&P 500. He likes it, but doesn't have any exposure to healthcare right now. It's a great ETF. With an $.805 Cdn dollar, he would definitely be buying the name.

(A Top Pick Feb 17/17. Up 16%.) He still likes this. There are very few sectors that are in secular bull markets. This is one of them. This should be a core holding for every Canadian investor.

(A Top Pick April 18/16. Up 14.37%.) He still likes this. Healthcare is in a secular bull market. The trend started in 2012. It is still a Hold.

(A Top Pick April 18/16. Up 8%.) If this can get above the peak it hit in March, it is going to really accelerate. He would like this one longer-term. (See Top Picks.)

Just the big names in US healthcare. We have seen the bottom in here. It is one of the strongest sectors out there right now. We saw some rotation last week. It is in a secular bull market and we are at the beginning of it. It has a really good valuation. The political football that it has been is going to die down.

Good time for a US healthcare ETF? This should be a good area to get into because of an aging population. Demographics are certainly in favour. If he was going to do anything, this would be the one he would go with.

Which stocks for RESP and University in 8 years? He would use healthcares such as SPDR Health Care (XLV-N) or SPDR Pharma (XPH-N). These are in a secular bull market. You could also use Van Eck Vectors Biotech (BBH-Q). This gives you a little bit of mix of all 3 sectors. He would suggest 40% and 40% on the first 2 and maybe 20% in the Biotechs.

Healthcare does better in August and into October. But it ran up since February. We have that political football. Be careful because it is an election year.

There are very few sectors that are in a bull market on a secular basis. This is one of them. It started in 2014. Was a little bit of a football recently. He started by taking a small position of 2.5%. This is coming into a strong seasonal period.

(A Top Pick June 29/15. Down 3.4%.) Likes healthcare and wouldn’t sell this. Healthcare is one of those areas that is a good position to have in a portfolio.

(Top Pick Oct 31/14, Up 2.23%) It was way higher two months ago. He got out a month ago. He still likes it long term. He thinks there will be good opportunities to grab this for the long term in the next couple of months.

(A Top Pick June 29/15. Down 6.39%.) Healthcare and biotech have been hit pretty hard lately. He really likes this on a longer-term basis. This is an area that continues to be very, very important, and this will continue to do well. If you own, continue to Hold. Still a Buy.

The healthcare sector should probably be one of your core sectors holdings and you can hold this for the long-term. It is a play on major US healthcare providers. There is going to be continued consolidation in the sector, because margins will be squeezed.