$Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund(XLY)$XLY is a portfolio of US large-cap consumer-discretionary stocks. XLY's basket of stocks represents the sector well, despite concentration in the largest names. As a part of the Select Sector SPDR suite, the fund pulls its holdings from the S&P 500, which differs from the broad-market universe used by competing funds in that it excludes small-caps and most midcaps. The resulting basket contains just a fraction of the names held by our more diverse benchmark, however, industry biases are small and XLY tends to provide market performance. The fund's average market cap is higher than our benchmark's, but overall XLY provides solid exposure.
$Cboe Volatility Index(VIX)$The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or the ‘VIX’ as it is better known, is a measure of the expected volatility of the US stock market.The VIX is based on the option prices of the S&P 500 Index and is calculated by combining the weighted prices of the index’s put1 and call2 options for the next 30 days.The VIX is designed to reflect investors’ view of future US stock market volatility -- in other words, how much investors think the S&P 500 Index will fluctuate in the next 30 days.Often referred to as the market's ‘fear gauge’, the VIX is used by investors to measure market risk, fear and stress, before they make investment decisions.When there is a spike in the VIX, this means traders in the S&am
$Micron Technology(MU)$Micron Technology, Inc. offers memory and storage solutions. The Company's portfolio of memory and storage technologies, including dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), negative-AND (NAND), three-dimensional (3D) XPoint memory, and NOR. Its brands include Micron and Crucial. Its business segments include Compute and Networking Business Unit (CNBU), which includes memory products sold into client, cloud server, enterprise, graphics, and networking markets; Mobile Business Unit (MBU), which includes memory products sold into smartphone and other mobile-device markets; Storage Business Unit (SBU), which includes solid state drives (SSDs) and solutions sold into enterprise, cloud, client, and consumer storage markets, other storage
$Walt Disney(DIS)$The Walt Disney Company is a worldwide entertainment company. The Company’s segments include Disney Media and Entertainment Distribution (DMED), and Disney Parks, Experiences and Products (DPEP). The DMED segment encompasses the Company’s global film and episodic television content production and distribution activities. The Company’s DMED’s lines of business consists of Linear Networks, Direct-to-Consumer and Content Sales/Licensing. The Company’s DPEP segment business consists of sale of admissions to theme parks, the sale of food, beverage and merchandise at its theme parks and resorts, sales of cruise vacations, sales and rentals of vacation club properties, royalties from licensing its intellectual properties (IP) for use on
$Vanguard S&P 500 ETF(VOO)$VOO captures the large-cap stocks. The fund tracks its index extremely well. However, like all S&P 500 funds, it defines large-caps as the S&P Committee sees it, which means it includes a fairly large allocation to firms that we consider to be midcaps. Still, VOO offers excellent US large-cap coverage. VOO stumbles slightly on transparency: it discloses holdings monthly and not daily like its peers. However, it is able to reinvest dividends when paid. The ETF is technically part of a larger Vanguard portfolio that includes S&P 500 mutual fund share classes, an arrangement with little to no practical impact on VOO investors. In all, VOO delivers the goods across the board.
$MAPLETREE LOGISTICS TRUST(M44U.SI)$Mapletree Logistics Trust ("MLT") is the first Asia-focused logistics real estate investment trust listed on theSGX-ST mainboard. MLT is established with the principal investment strategy of investing, directly or indirectly,in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate which is used for logistics purposes, whether wholly orpartially, as well as real estate-related assets. The manager of MLT is Mapletree Logistics Trust ManagementLtd., a subsidiary of Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd. From an initial property portfolio of 15 properties inSingapore, MLTs portfolio has grown to over 140 properties located across the Asia-Pacific region, includingSingapore, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, China, Australia, South
$MAPLETREE INDUSTRIAL TRUST(ME8U.SI)$Mapletree Industrial Trust ("MIT") is a real estate investment trust listed on the Main Board of Singapore Exchange. Its principal investment strategy is to invest in a diversified portfolio of income-producing real estate used primarily for industrial purposes in Singapore and income-producing real estate used primarily as data centres worldwide beyond Singapore, as well as real estate-related assets. As at 31 March 2022, MIT's total assets under management was S$8.8 billion, which comprised 86 properties in Singapore and 57 properties in North America (including 13 data centres held through the joint venture with Mapletree Investments Pte Ltd). MIT's property portfolio includes Data Centres, Hi-Tech B
$SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SoFi) is a digital personal finance company. The Company allows members to borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money. The Company has developed a financial services platform to offer products to members and meet their financial needs. SoFi operates through three segments: Lending, Financial Services, and Technology Platform. Its Lending segment offers multiple loan products, such as student loans, personal loans and home loans. Its Financial Services provides financial service solutions, including cash management and investment services across its SoFi Money, SoFi Invest, SoFi Credit Card and SoFi Relay products. Its Technology Platform operates Technology Platform Services (Galileo)
$Unity Software Inc.(U)$Unity Software Inc. (Unity) is a platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time three-dimensional content. The Company's platform includes Create Solutions and Operate Solutions that enables customers to create, run and monetize their content across a range of third-party content distribution platforms. It provides a set of software solutions for mobile phones, tablets, computers, consoles, and augmented & virtual reality devices. Content made with Unity is real-time, allowing it to adapt to user's behaviour and feedback. Its Create Solutions are used by content creators, developers, designers, engineers, and architects to create interactive, 2D and 3D content. Its products, Unity Ads and Unity IAP (In-App Purc
$Caterpillar(CAT)$Caterpillar Inc. is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The Company operates through its three primary segments : Construction Industries, Resource Industries and Energy & Transportation. It also provides financing and related services through its Financial Products segment. Its Construction Industries is engaged in supporting customers using machinery in infrastructure, forestry and building construction. Its Resource Industries is engaged in supporting customers using machinery in mining, heavy construction, quarry, waste and material handling applications. Its Energy & Transportation, which supports customers in oil
$ARK Innovation ETF(ARKK)$ARKK is an actively managed Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) that seeks long-term growth of capital by investing under normal circumstances primarily (at least 65% of its assets) in domestic and foreign equity securities of companies that are relevant to the Fund’s investment theme of disruptive innovation.ARK defines ‘‘disruptive innovation’’ as the introduction of a technologically enabled new product or service that potentially changes the way the world works.Companies within ARKK include those that rely on or benefit from the development of new products or services, technological improvements and advancements in scientific research relating to the areas of:1. DNA Technologies and the “Genomic Revolution”2. Automation, Robot
$Edwards Lifesciences(EW)$Edwards Lifesciences Corporation is a manufacturer of heart valve systems and repair products used to replace or repair a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. The Company is engaged in patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. Its segments include United States, Europe, Japan and Rest of World. Its products and technologies are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart and Critical Care. It also develops hemodynamic and noninvasive brain and tissue oxygenation monitoring systems that are used to measure a patient's cardiovascular function in the hospital setting. The Ed
$American Airlines(AAL)$American Airlines Group Inc. is a holding company. The Company's primary business activity is the operation of a network air carrier, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. It operates through American segment, which provides air transportation for passengers and cargo. The Company together with its regional airline subsidiaries and third-party regional carriers operates under American Eagle brand, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo through its hubs in Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas/Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Washington, District of Columbia (D.C.) and partner gateways, including in London, Madrid, Seattle/Tacoma, Sydney and Tokyo. It
$UiPath(PATH)$UiPath, Inc. offers an end-to-end platform for automation, combining the robotic process automation (RPA) solution, which enables organizations to scale digital business operations. The Company's platform is designed to transform the way humans work. It provides its customers with a robust set of capabilities to discover automation opportunities and build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automations across departments within an organization. The Company's platform enables its software robots to perform an array of actions. These actions include, but are not limited to, logging into applications, extracting information from documents, moving folders, filling in forms, and updating information fields and databases. The Company
$Tesla Motors(TSLA)$Tesla, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, sells and leases fully electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems, and offer services related to its products. The Company's automotive segment includes the design, development, manufacturing, sales, and leasing of electric vehicles as well as sales of automotive regulatory credits. Additionally, the automotive segment is also comprised of services and other, which includes non-warranty after-sales vehicle services, sales of used vehicles, retail merchandise, sales by its acquired subsidiaries to third party customers, and vehicle insurance. Its energy generation and storage segment includes the design, manufacture, installation, sales and leasing of solar energy gen
$SoFi Technologies Inc.(SOFI)$SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SoFi) is a digital personal finance company. The Company allows members to borrow, save, spend, invest and protect their money. The Company has developed a financial services platform to offer products to members and meet their financial needs. SoFi operates through three segments: Lending, Financial Services, and Technology Platform. Its Lending segment offers multiple loan products, such as student loans, personal loans and home loans. Its Financial Services provides financial service solutions, including cash management and investment services across its SoFi Money, SoFi Invest, SoFi Credit Card and SoFi Relay products. Its Technology Platform operates Technology Platform Services (Galileo)
$Vaxart, Inc(VXRT)$Vaxart, Inc. is a clinical-stage biotechnology company that is primarily focused on the development of oral recombinant vaccines based on its Vector-Adjuvant-Antigen Standardized Technology (VAAST) oral vaccine platform. Its programs include tablet vaccines designed to protect against coronavirus, norovirus, seasonal influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), as well as a therapeutic vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV). The Company’s product pipeline includes norovirus vaccine, an oral tablet vaccine, which is in a Phase Ib clinical trial with bivalent oral tablet vaccine for the GI.1 and GII.4 norovirus strains; influenza vaccine, which is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of H1 influenza infection; respirat
$Wells Fargo(WFC)$Wells Fargo & Company is a financial services company. The Company provides a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through banking locations and offices, the Internet (www.wellsfargo.com) and other distribution channels to individuals, businesses and institutions in states, the District of Columbia and in countries outside the United States. The Company provides consumer financial products and services, including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and auto, mortgage and home equity, and small business lending. In addition, the Company offers financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. Th