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New Indexes To Track Healthcare Trends And More
By: Mike Havrilla   Wednesday, August 05, 2009 11:39 AM

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Below are links and descriptions for 23 new stock indexes I have created, revised, and tracked over the past few years which are now featured at a new website called Investars YOU. The new site includes automated index tracking, allows investors to create custom stock portfolios based on their individual preferences, and now features free access to all of the component stocks in each of my indexes. Some of the top performing stocks from my healthcare indexes on a year-to-date basis are highlighted below.

Cosmetic & Restorative Medicine Index:

Allergan (NYSE: ) (+38%)

The Cosmetic and Restorative Medicine Index passively tracks the performance of companies that derive over 50% of revenue from any of the following activities: (1) prescription skin care therapeutics; (2) medical devices, products, services, OR equipment for procedures which are intended to enhance appearance; (3) medical devices, products, services, OR equipment for use as joint replacements, tissue repair agents, tissue reconstruction agents, surgical adhesives, and cardiovascular procedures; and (4) regenerative medicine products, services, and/or an active clinical pipeline which seeks to restore or repair the functionality of lost or damaged organ, tissue, cellular, and genetic material. Index components will be removed to reflect corporate events such as mergers and bankruptcies which result in de-listing of the underlying stocks.

BioMedReports.com Select Index:

Access Pharma (ACCP.OB) (+348%)

The BioMedReports.com Select Index is an actively managed model portfolio of 30-40 stocks that will maintain at least a 90% sector weighting in healthcare with a focus on emerging small and micro-cap bio-pharmaceutical companies with market caps below $1 billion. Mid and large-cap stocks with market caps over $1 billion will typically account for about one-third to one-half of the index components. The selections will be made based on my research, experience, and activities as Managing editor of the website to identify companies which appear as either undervalued or those which are likely to benefit from upcoming binary event catalysts in the form of FDA decisions or key clinical trial results.

Cancer Dx/Tx Micro-Cap Index:

Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ: ) (+422%)

The passively managed Cancer Diagnostic & Therapeutic (Dx/Tx) Micro-Cap Index constituents reflect a cross-section of emerging cancer companies with market caps below $250 million at the inception date of 4/12/09, including (1) diagnostics (molecular diagnostics and device-based diagnostics), (2) lab services (personalized medicine applications to guide and track the effectiveness of cancer treatments), (3) drug discovery (screening and modifying compounds to achieve anti-cancer effects during the early stages of preclinical and Phase 1 clinical studies), (4) immunotherapy (a.k.a. cancer vaccines which are designed to stimulate the immune system to eradicate cancer), and (5) commercial or late-stage (Phase 2-3) clinical development. Components will only be removed from the index due to mergers, bankruptcies, or other corporate events that result in de-listing of the Company`s stock.

Emerging Diagnostics Index:

EXACT Sciences (NASDAQ: ) (+395%)

The Emerging Diagnostics Index is passively managed and tracks the performance of companies with market caps below $250 million at the time of inclusion. The index includes diabetes monitoring device makers, laboratory services, clinical diagnostics, diagnostic imaging, diagnostic equipment makers, and molecular diagnostics. The index will only be updated to remove components which are no longer trading due to mergers, bankruptcies, or other corporate events that result in de-listing of the Company's stock.

Global Airline Index:

The Global Airline Index passively tracks the performance of companies with market caps over $200 million at the inception date of 7/16/08 which derive over 50% of revenue from passenger airline services. Index components will be removed to reflect corporate events such as mergers and bankruptcies which result in de-listing of the underlying stocks.

Global Carbon Trading Index:

The passively managed Global Carbon Trading Index tracks the performance of companies which generate carbon credits through their business operations and/or are involved with the trading of carbon credits. Examples of these activities include the following: waste-to-energy, landfill or methane gas collection, financial exchanges for carbon credits, carbon credit investment firms, and renewable energy projects that result in the generation of carbon credits (e.g. hydro-power, farming, industrial).


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