Peter Herbert, Co-founder, Lux Capital, and Ryan Issakainen, CFA, Senior Vice President & ETF Strategist, First Trust discuss how advisors can harness the rapid growth of heathcare tech with EKG.
The pandemic put significant pressure on the need for telehealth and other disruptive technologies to meet the needs of our changing social environment. As a result, the technology developed to meet those needs has launched the healthcare sector into an upward trajectory of growth and innovation.
The First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF (EKG) provides investors with exposure to this high growth sector of healthcare. The fund seeks investment results that track the price and yield of the Nasdaq Lux Health Tech Index, which measures the performance of selected companies engaged in the intersection of healthcare and technology. The fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in the common stocks and depositary receipts comprising the Index.
To learn more, register and watch their webcast: How is Technology Disrupting the Health Care Sector?
Personalized, real-time analytics delivered from a wearable device, VR/AR for surgical procedures, developments in genomic sequencing—these are just a few of the breakthroughs brought about by innovations in digital health, a rapidly growing segment of the health technology industry. Please join Ryan Issakainen from First Trust Advisors and Peter Hebert from Lux Capital as they discuss how digital innovation is changing health care for the better, and how the First Trust Nasdaq Lux Digital Health Solutions ETF (EKG) provides exposure to this theme.
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Lux Capital is a venture capital firm with $4 billion in assets under management and more than 30 full-time investment professionals. Lux Capital invests primarily in seed- and early-stage ventures across multiple sectors, focusing on tech innovators who challenge the status quo.
First Trust is an investment management firm that provides investment products and advisor services. First Trust prioritizes finding solutions that allow investors to invest in a better way. Their core principles include employing discipline, investing for the long term, and maintaining the transparency of investments.