Use This ETF to Tiptoe Into Tech Shares

iShares Edge MSCI USA Momentum Factor, a new member of the Kiplinger ETF 20, stayed ahead of its benchmarks.

The Kiplinger ETF 20, our favorite exchange-traded fund picks, have done their job and kept pace with their respective benchmarks so far this year. Given recent global market declines, though, that means most have lost ground since the start of 2018. For example, after leading the stock market higher for most of 2017, tech stocks fell hard and fast this year. Over a four-week period in March and April, tech shares declined 7.2%, compared with a 4.2% drop in the broad stock market.

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Nellie S. Huang
Senior Associate Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Nellie joined Kiplinger in August 2011 after a seven-year stint in Hong Kong. There, she worked for the Wall Street Journal Asia, where as lifestyle editor, she launched and edited Scene Asia, an online guide to food, wine, entertainment and the arts in Asia. Prior to that, she was an editor at Weekend Journal, the Friday lifestyle section of the Wall Street Journal Asia. Kiplinger isn't Nellie's first foray into personal finance: She has also worked at SmartMoney (rising from fact-checker to senior writer), and she was a senior editor at Money.