.The Russell 2000 may possess a profits problem.Though the small-cap index got 10.1% in July, it's dropped around 4% until now in August, as of Thursday morning.ALPS' Paul Baiocchi chalks up the unpredictable relocate to the index's total arrangement, along with an estimate from Apollo Global presenting 40% of those business possess adverse incomes." [Clients] have actually primarily surrendered themselves to the simple fact that by residing in the Russell 2000, I am actually just visiting must take the excellent along with the negative," the organization's main ETF planner told CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.To avoid the profitability bother, Baiocchi suggests financiers prioritize premium companies, considering additional careful exchange-traded funds like his firm's ALPS O'Shares united state Small-Cap High Quality Reward ETF Portions (OUSM)." The suggestion is high quality firms that spend and also develop their rewards, and also importantly, have less dryness than their peers," he mentioned. "It permits advisors as well as capitalists who have seen little hats go sidewards for 5 years to become designated to a type that is actually lagged." In addition to its success monitor, the fund consists of merely 107 supplies u00e2 $" a fraction of what is actually inside the Russell 2000. Its own top three holdings are Tradeweb Markets, Juniper Networks as well as Old State International, each sitting at an about 2% weighting in the fund, per FactSet.Shares of the small-cap fund are actually down 1.5% month to day u00e2 $" outshining the Russell through much more than 2 portion factors during that time.Disclaimer.