.The Russell 2000 might have a productivity problem.Though the small-cap index obtained 10.1% in July, it's lost roughly 4% so far in August, since Thursday morning.ALPS' Paul Baiocchi chalks up the volatile transfer to the index's total arrangement, with an estimate coming from Beauty Global showing 40% of those providers have unfavorable earnings." [Real estate investors] have actually essentially surrendered themselves to the truth that through residing in the Russell 2000, I am actually merely visiting need to take the really good with the poor," the company's chief ETF schemer informed CNBC's "ETF Edge" this week.To prevent the productivity drag, Baiocchi recommends capitalists prioritize top quality business, considering even more discerning exchange-traded funds including his firm's mountain range O'Shares USA Small-Cap Quality Dividend ETF Shares (OUSM)." The suggestion is quality providers that pay for and grow their rewards, and notably, possess much less dryness than their peers," he pointed out. "It enables specialists as well as real estate investors who have actually seen tiny hats go sideways for 5 years to become designated to a classification that's dragged." Along with its profits display screen, the fund has only 107 inventories u00e2 $" a fraction of what is actually inside the Russell 2000. Its own top three holdings are actually Tradeweb Markets, Juniper Networks and also Old Republic International, each sitting at an about 2% weighting in the fund, every FactSet.Shares of the small-cap fund are down 1.5% month to time u00e2 $" outperforming the Russell through greater than 2 percentage aspects during that time.Disclaimer.