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- Launches
Trading Central's quantamental ratings power a new UCITS ETF
The new fund packages a five-factor stock-rating framework into a PEA-eligible, physically replicated UCITS structure.
- The Tape
CSHI's case grows as 30-year yield hits 5.31%
A T-bill ETF with an options overlay gives bond investors a place to hide when long-term rates break out.
- Launches
LAIQON lists first AI-driven active ETF on Deutsche Börse
The Hamburg manager's debut UCITS fund pairs an AI stock picker with a human portfolio team.
- Active
Bitwise's Trendwise ETFs swap long-only crypto for rotation
Three Bitwise futures funds now rotate between crypto and Treasuries on a moving-average rule, chasing better risk-adjusted returns.
- Active
TTEQ nearly doubles assets as investors pour in $189 million
Flows, not market gains, drove TTEQ to $429 million as investors paid up for active tech.
- Passive & Indexing
RAFI's $200 billion anti-cap-weight business lands at TMX
Rob Arnott's fundamental indexing now sits behind TMX VettaFi's push for $1 trillion in index assets.
- The Tape
Pacer brings Cash Cows to bonds as rate-hedge ETFs stack up
Fixed-income ETFs now come with a rate view, not just a coupon.
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- Active
Guggenheim's GISC brings floating-rate structured credit to ETF allocators
ETF Trends argues GISC's 5.18% SEC yield and floating-rate book give fixed-income allocators a way to hold ground while the Fed decides.
- Passive & Indexing
Sprott argues uranium supplies are about to tighten
A new contracting cycle in Europe and the US could tighten uranium supplies just as demand accelerates, supporting prices and the case for URNM.
- Active
T. Rowe Price's TMED makes the case for active sector ETFs
A 44-basis-point fee and a bottom-up, global mandate are beating the S&P health-care benchmark by wide margins.
- Passive & Indexing
Nebius's surge fuels THNQ's 46% year-to-date return
The AI cloud stock jumped 28% after earnings and now stands as the fund's tenth-largest holding.
- The Tape
Ether takes the lead as crypto ETPs break a long outflow streak
July's $515.9 million in net inflows ended the streak and lifted assets to $117.5 billion, though price gains did most of the work.
- Issuers
VanEck ranks its own income ETFs by yield
A fund-family product list is more brochure than data, even when the yield math is standard.
- Issuers
WisdomTree crosses $50 billion as currency-hedged funds lead record inflows
The independent ETF issuer reached the mark in less than a decade, powered by $9.7 billion of record inflows this year.
- The Tape
BlackRock's synthetic ETF shows core flows trump purity
The index giant's swap-based fund lands as pension money and near-$50 billion weekly inflows make the ETF wrapper the default for core portfolios.
- Passive & Indexing
Three small-cap ETFs surface as Russell 2000 sets record
A biotech index, a cash-flow screen and a value tilt offer different ways to ride the small-cap benchmark's new high.
- Issuers
Northern Trust folds FlexShares ETFs into parent brand
All 39 funds now trade as Northern Trust ETFs, ending the two-brand lineup.
- Launches
July’s Canadian ETF launches lean into income
Seven of the 16 funds carry income in their names; the rest are mostly equity.
- Passive & Indexing
A rate-hedged junk ETF makes the quality case
WisdomTree's HYZD runs a 0.22-year duration hedge over a BB-heavy book. Its sponsor says plain high-yield beta no longer cuts it.
- Passive & Indexing
Broadcom's bear market turns single-stock ETFs into a timing problem
The AI chip maker is 20.6% below its 52-week high; Direxion's inverse fund and its 2x bull fund are wagers on which catalyst runs out first.
- The Tape
UK ETF ownership nears one in five as investment trusts fall to 9%
Boring Money's latest report finds UK retail investors leaving trusts for cheaper, simpler ETFs.
- Passive & Indexing
GFLW halves Sterling stake as free-cash-flow rules bite
Sterling Infrastructure had gained 114% in three months. GFLW's June rebalance cut the stake nearly in half and pushed the fund's beta to 1.02.
- Passive & Indexing
Gold-mining ETFs outrun the metal as Sprott and Global X lead with 25% gains
Spot gold is back near $4,400. Operating leverage and historically low valuations are spreading the rally from bullion to the companies that dig it up.
- Active
FBCG tops $7 billion as investors pay up for stock-picking
The Fidelity blue-chip growth ETF has absorbed $1 billion this year, a sign active management is winning as the former Mag Seven breaks apart.
- The Tape
Energy wins Europe's week; tech takes the money
European-listed equity ETFs absorbed €7.94 billion last week, the bid still parked in US and developed-market exposure, while the week's best-performing sector got sold.
- Active
Tweedy, Browne makes its century-old value pitch to ETF investors
The firm behind Ben Graham's brokerage makes its case for value investing as active stock funds pull in cash.
- The Tape
European equity ETFs draw €7.94B as flows and performance diverge
European ETFs drew €7.94B into broad beta while the best-performing sector saw outflows.
- Issuers
VictoryShares turns advisor poll data into a free cash flow lesson plan
Two webcast surveys show what advisors don't know about FCF and how they might use it.
- Passive & Indexing
A $1.3 trillion utility splurge puts an electrification ETF ahead of sector funds
ELFY is up 22% year to date. Industrial and energy holdings, not the utility stake, are driving the gain, which is about six times a typical utilities benchmark's return.
- Active
Leveraged Treasury ETFs: a two-sided bet with a timing tax
Soft jobs data and a hawkish futures path frame the TYD/TYO trade; the daily objective rewards the nimble.
- Active
SpaceX's first public quarter backs Baron's one-stock ETF
The debut earnings report delivered the growth RONB's 30% position was built to capture.
- Passive & Indexing
BATT's China-heavy lithium fund meets a slowing EV market
BMI expects lithium prices to drift lower in the second half. BATT's China sleeve, at more than 30%, makes that a local problem.
- Passive & Indexing
GFLW's June rebalance cuts a 114% winner in half
The fund's two-step rule — free-cash-flow selection, risk-adjusted momentum weighting — overrode a hot stock's rally.
- Active
FDFF's three-year record opens distribution doors
The active finance ETF's third birthday unlocks brokerage shelf space and a fresh test of its momentum.
- Active
Active ETFs now anchor 19% of institutional ETF assets in Europe
A Crisil Coalition Greenwich report finds a majority of European institutions and distributors use active ETFs and plan to add more.
- Launches
Pacer launches MILK, first Cash Cows bond ETF
Pacer transplants its free-cash-flow equity screen into fixed income, where credit ratings usually rule.
- The Tape
Tradeweb's automated ETF trading now handles 96% of European tickets
Automated execution now handles nearly every European ETF ticket. Its notional share still lags.
- Active
Direxion's leveraged Treasury ETFs offer a two-horizon Fed trade
The 3x Treasury ETFs let traders bet on Fed direction, but the bigger question is how long to hold.
- Passive & Indexing
FTSE launches UK and Italian volatility indices
The IVI series gives the FTSE 100 and FTSE MIB a VIX-style gauge and could become the benchmark for future volatility ETFs.
- Passive & Indexing
Pension funds push ETFs toward the core of portfolios
A DWS survey finds 26% of pension funds now prefer ETFs for passive exposure.