BBP

BBP offers a different approach to biotech investing by handpicking firms whose lead drugs are on its product stage or those firms that have attained FDA approval for their leading drug. Stocks must earn a majority of their revenue from the research and development and/or marketing and sale of novel drugs or other therapeutics used in the treatment of human diseases. The fund is offered by BioShares alongside launched a sister fund, BBC, which targets biotech firms in the clinical trial stage. The index is reconstituted on a semi-annual basis.