Investors Pocket Gains From Bets on Risky Corner of Stock Market

Traders at the New York Stock Exchange. One of the riskiest corners of the US stock market has been rallying hard for the last few weeks, but investors burned by small caps time and again over the past four years aren’t sitting on paper gains. Going by fund flows at the biggest exchange traded fund that tracks the Russell 2000, investors are pocketing profits almost as rapidly as they accrue. Some $5.4 billion has been pulled from the iShares Russell 2000 ETF this year, while the index it tracks has soar ...