.The Russell 2000 might possess a productivity problem.Though the small-cap mark gained 10.1% in July, it's lost roughly 4% so far in August, as of Thursday morning.ALPS' Paul Baiocchi achieves the unstable moves to the mark's general arrangement, with an estimate from Apollo Global presenting 40% of those providers possess negative incomes." [Entrepreneurs] have actually basically surrendered themselves to the simple fact that by remaining in the Russell 2000, I'm just going to have to take the excellent along with the bad," the firm's main ETF planner said to CNBC's "ETF Advantage" this week.To prevent the success drag, Baiocchi proposes capitalists focus on premium providers, taking a look at more careful exchange-traded funds including his company's mountain range O'Shares united state Small-Cap Quality Returns ETF Allotments (OUSM)." The concept is quality business that pay out as well as expand their returns, and essentially, have a lot less dryness than their peers," he pointed out. "It makes it possible for advisors and real estate investors that have found little limits go sidewards for 5 years to be assigned to a type that's dragged." Along with its own earnings screen, the fund has simply 107 supplies u00e2 $" a portion of what is actually inside the Russell 2000. Its top 3 holdings are Tradeweb Markets, Juniper Networks as well as Old Commonwealth International, each sitting at an around 2% weighting in the fund, per FactSet.Shares of the small-cap fund are actually down 1.5% month to time u00e2 $" exceeding the Russell by greater than 2 amount points because time.Disclaimer.