Healthcare Fund Ends July Up 11 Percent YTD as Stocks in the Sector were Mixed for July

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Sarepta Therapeutics Worldwide Healthcare Partners Fund

Exome Asset Management's Worldwide Healthcare Partners Fund (WWHCP) returned 0.3% for July, resulting in a year-to-date gain of 11.4% net. Meanwhile, the MSCI World Health Care Net Total Return Index climbed 3.3% last month for a 10.9% year-to-date return. The S&P 500 gained 1.2% in July and is up 16.7% year to date, while the S&P Biotech Index gained 6.9% last month for a year-to-date return of 10.9%.

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.