Tema ETFs has been capitalizing on the chance urge for food for weight reduction shares.
It’s behind the GLP-1, Weight problems & Cardiometabolic ETF (HRTS), which is up 26% since its inception final November.
The agency’s founder and CEO Maurits Pot thinks the profitable weight reduction commerce is not based mostly on simply hype.
“The businesses we observe and the businesses we put money into are trying not simply at a weight reduction strategy, but additionally different approaches,” Pot advised CNBC’s “ETF Edge” on Monday. “We might see a world the place nearly all of the world’s inhabitants takes a GLP-1, not only for weight reduction, however for different illnesses.”
His high holdings embrace Mounjaro producer Eli Lilly and Ozempic and Wegovy maker Novo Nordisk. Eli Lilly is up 57% to this point this 12 months, whereas Novo Nordisk is up 38%.
Plus, Pot doesn’t anticipate the value tag for GLP-1s to discourage new sufferers. He thinks they are going to come down considerably within the subsequent two to a few years.
“We might see drug pricing come down from $12,000 to perhaps $6,000 a 12 months, so perhaps $500 a month,” mentioned Pot, who factors out insurance coverage protection usually makes the remedies extra inexpensive to sufferers.