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The market’s first marijuana-themed ETF could start trading next week

Published: Apr 1, 2017 9:46 a.m. ET

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Fund will track medical marijuana companies
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By
RYANVLASTELICA

MARKETS REPORTER

Roughly two weeks before April 20, investors with a craving for marijuana exposure will have a new instrument with which to get it in their portfolios.
The first exchange-traded fund with a marijuana focus, the Horizons Medical Marijuana Life Sciences ETF, has been conditionally approved for listing by the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is scheduled to debut on April 5 under the ticker symbol HMMJ. According to Horizon ETF Management, it will be the first ETF “that offers direct exposure to North American-listed stocks that are involved with medical marijuana bioengineering and production.