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Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are the rage today with many investors flocking to purchase them as opposed to the usual mutual funds. ETFs work in this way. The fund manager decide

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

s that he wants to mimick the returns of the NASDAQ so he just buys all the stocks that make up the index and then he sells shares in this fund to investors. This means that you h

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ave effectively diversified your risk when compared to another investor who buys and individual share. There are three related reasons why there has been an upsurge in recent year

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

in the number of fund managers setting up these funds.

Low Cost

The first reason would be the relative low cost that works both ways. Since we are not stock picking, the fund m

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

anager needs just to set up software to ensure that the fund accurately mimics the stock holdings of the index. Some shares have a greater representation in the index than others

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

by virtue of their large clout and number of shares issued in the market and the fund has to respond to that.

The other way the cost factor kicks in is that many investors today a

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

e happy and delighted to find an investment options that is cheap in terms of fees. Since the fund manager does very little monitoring or research for this fund, its really cheap

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

to purchase this monthly and this makes a very good investment for the retail investor.

Defensive Investing

Benjamin Graham the value investing guru advocated the concept of defe

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

nsive investing in an Exchange Traded Fund in his book “The Intelligent Investor”. In that book he did back calculations back to the days of the Great Depression and if you invest

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

d monthly since then, your average return would be 33% on average and its not bad considering the fact that you did not have to spend time wondering whether the index was up or dow

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

n or whether your latest stock pick was in the money or not. Just buy a small amount monthly whether the stock market is up or down and use it as a rainy day fund that you can r

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

apidly liquidate for ready cash. The reason why this is called defensive investing is that you do not have to spend time actively picking and most investors whether professional o

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

retail lose money actively picking stocks and ETFs remedy this problem by sure probability and mathematical statistics.

Plurality of options

ETFs today are flooding the market w

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

ith each of the top fund houses in New York setting up new and more fanciful financial baskets each day. Today there is a great plurality of funds that you can purchase from Tech

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

ETFs to Banking ETFs to Energy ETFs and so you have no shortage of options. If you are optimistic on a certain sector and do not want to waste you energy and time picking the righ

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

company actively, ETFs with their current plurality of options is the great key to diversified investing in a particular sector. The time saved scrutinising financial data which

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

is often padded up is not worth the effort some times when there is great intrinsic fraud like Enron and WorldComm.

In conclusion, ETFs today represent a cheap, effective way for

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

you to do defensive investing and with that part of your money relatively secured, you can then spend some of your money doing active stock picking if you are so inclined. Take so

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

e effort this week to research into this financial instrument and you may find the returns better then your fund manager in the longer term (when averaged over time by virtue of st

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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