.The Russell 2000 may have a productivity problem.Though the small-cap mark got 10.1% in July, it's lost around 4% up until now in August, as of Thursday morning.ALPS' Paul Baiocchi earns the volatile moves to the index's overall arrangement, along with a price quote coming from Apollo Global showing 40% of those providers have adverse earnings." [Real estate investors] have actually primarily resigned themselves to the simple fact that by remaining in the Russell 2000, I am actually merely visiting need to take the great with the bad," the company's chief ETF schemer said to CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.To prevent the profits bother, Baiocchi advises financiers focus on premium providers, examining even more selective exchange-traded funds like his firm's O'Shares united state Small-Cap High Quality Reward ETF Reveals (OUSM)." The tip is premium firms that pay and grow their rewards, and significantly, have much less dryness than their peers," he pointed out. "It enables advisors as well as clients that have actually observed small limits go sideways for five years to become allocated to a type that's delayed." Along with its success display, the fund consists of simply 107 sells u00e2 $" a portion of what's inside the Russell 2000. Its leading three holdings are Tradeweb Markets, Juniper Networks and Old Commonwealth International, each resting at an about 2% weighting in the fund, every FactSet.Shares of the small-cap fund are actually down 1.5% month to day u00e2 $" outshining the Russell by greater than 2 amount aspects because time.Disclaimer.