ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge - Leaderboard

With the 8^th week of the Fall 2016 ETF Global® Portfolio Challenge in the books, we would like to take time to recognize our top performers!

In what has been a closely contested but highly volatile competition, here are the top performing students - weekly Leaderboards are available at www.etfportfoliochallenge.com

Contest Leaders
Name	School	Portfolio Return
Kashif Anwer	Rutgers Business School	37.58%
Michelle Gu	University of Chicago	27.93%
Sean Hudson	University of Delaware	25.54%
Edwin Lee	Rutgers University	23.76%
Milos Montes	University of Puerto Rico- Rio Padres	22.75%
Matthew Parks	University of Central Florida	20.93%
Qiuye Dong	Michigan State University	20.93%
Zecheng Wang	University of Michigan	16.87%
Konstantin Ignatov	Essec Business School	12.61%
Yizhi Zhang	Frankfurt School of Finance and Management	12.38%

An analysis of our leaders’ portfolio holdings reveals that our top performers have loaded up on levered products, especially those bearish on gold like JDST and DUST. Use of levered products is limited within the contest but despite the inherent risks, the use of levered products enabled our current leaders to generate staggering short-term profits. Clearly, these bearish wagers on gold have paid off this week with it losing ground over the 5 days of trading.

As illustrated by the above, our current leaders have delivered spectacular portfolio returns. As we have already passed the halfway mark of the performance period, we can see that the Fall 2016 ETF Global Portfolio Challenge will be deeply competitive and we look forward to continue watching the competition unfold, Let’s see who will become the next #etfwizard!

As you consider re-positioning your portfolio, we encourage you to review the ETFG Weekly Select List.  Developed by the Research Policy Committee, the ETFG Select List features the 5 most highly-rated ETFs by Sector, Geographic Region and Strategy each week as ranked by the ETFG Quant model.

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