Topic: How To Invest

Hello Pat. I am currently holding the following in my RRSP account: Market Vectors Nuclear Energy ETF. What do you think about this exchange-traded fund? Thank you for your advice.

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Market Vectors Nuclear Energy ETF, $21.63, symbol NLR on New York (Shares outstanding: 7.4 million; Market cap: $159.0 million), aims to track the performance of the DAXglobal Nuclear Energy Index. The index includes 24 companies in the nuclear-energy industry. These firms are located in a number of different countries. To be included in the index, a company must be publicly traded, have a market cap over $150 million U.S. and meet certain minimum trading requirements. The index is divided into seven different areas of the nuclear industry: uranium mining (36.6%), nuclear generation (26.0%), plant infrastructure (22.5%), uranium storage (4.5%), nuclear conglomerates (4.4%), uranium enrichment (3.5%) and nuclear fuel transport (2.5%). The index’s top 10 holdings are Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (8.5%), Constellation Energy Group (8.2%), Electricite de France (7.7%), Exelon Corp. (7.5%), Cameco (7.4%), Uranium One (5.2%), JGC Corp. (4.6%), Paladin Energy (4.3%), Areva SA (4.1%) and Uranium Participation Corp. (4.1%). Market Vectors Nuclear Energy ETF first sold units to the public…