HQL: Healthcare Offers A Defensive Play For A Volatile Market With Solid Growth Potential [Seeking Alpha]
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HQL: Healthcare Offers A Defensive Play For A Volatile Market With Solid Growth Potential Summary Healthcare can be a good way to ride out the current market volatility due to its highly defensive nature. HQL is a healthcare fund focused mostly on the biotechnology space, which is one of the highest growth sub-sectors of the industry. The fund is invested mostly in large-cap companies, with a bit heavier weightings in a few of them than I would really like to see. In addition to being highly defensive, healthcare offers significant growth potential due to the aging of the population. The fund boasts a high distribution yield and currently trades at an attractive discount to net asset value. In various past articles, I have discussed how healthcare can form an integral part of an investor's portfolio. This is due to the fact that it is a highly defensive industry that is resistant to change in the business cycle and yet still boasts relatively strong forward growth potential. These qua
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