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- Passive & Indexing
VictoryShares' GFLW index screens 1,000 large caps down to 100 on cash flow
The Victory Free Cash Flow Growth Index picks its 100 names through five years of positive FCF growth, a forward-looking FCF ROIC screen, and a quarterly deletion of cash-negative constituents.
- The Tape
Thornburg's TMB bond ETF holds 1.4 years less duration than its index
The $260.98 million fund's 4.2-year effective duration compares with 5.6 years for the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index.
- The Tape
Cetera, LPL, Kestra, Carson and Wells Fargo lift teams in one day
Three of the five moves came from independent broker-dealers, and Cetera's $185 million Fitzgerald Financial Group liftout was the only asset figure disclosed.
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- The Tape
Europe's ETF savings-plan generation has never faced a sustained bear market at current scale
Scalable Capital's clients bought the April 2025 tariff dip, but a four-week correction is a thin test for a book that has grown roughly sixfold since 2020.
- Launches
Fidelity International launches two equity income UCITS ETFs with call-writing overlays
Each fund pairs Fidelity's fundamental equity research with a rules-based index call-selling strategy and is seeded with USD 5 million from Susquehanna.
- Passive & Indexing
Procure Space ETF fell 2.8% in September despite five double-digit gainers
Sky Perfect JSAT gained 181.7% in September and added 2.32 points to the fund's return, ETF Trends reports.
- The Tape
ETF Trends recap puts 2026 U.S. ETF inflows at a record $1.5 trillion
The item, recapping a Schwab TV appearance, says advisors are turning to S&P 500-based ETFs and cites Jensen Investment Management and Northern Trust as fund managers encouraged to build out ETF lineups.
- Passive & Indexing
Thornburg's TMB bond ETF runs 1.4 years shorter duration than its index
The $260.98 million fund's 4.2-year effective duration compares with 5.6 for the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index.
- Issuers
ETF Trends names only two dedicated U.S. buyback ETFs after Nvidia's $150B plan
U.S. buybacks crossed $1 trillion in a calendar year in 2025, and searches for the term rose 5,000% after the $150 billion authorization, according to the report.
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- Launches
Global X leads 24 Canadian ETF launches in September 2026 with seven products
ETF Express's September list spans 11 issuers and tilts toward fixed income, with NBI adding five products and Vanguard one.
- Launches
WisdomTree lists two autocallable defined-outcome ETFs on Xetra and Borsa Italiana
The actively managed UCITS funds charge 0.65% and target annualised returns of 8-9% and 6-7%, according to the issuer, which gave no launch assets.
- Launches
Nomura lists global memory ETF tracking Solactive index in Tokyo
The fund draws up to 20 companies from developed markets, South Korea and Taiwan, and the launch material does not disclose its expense ratio.
- Launches
T. Rowe Price lists TDEM, a 0.45% active emerging markets bond ETF
The launch takes the firm's actively managed ETF lineup to 39 funds, nine of which have debuted this year.
- The Tape
BlackRock files to add ETF share classes to five active funds holding $55 billion
The filing would add an ETF share class to five active mutual funds without moving their portfolios or changing their managers.
- Passive & Indexing
ALPS small-cap quality ETF fell 1.29% in Q3 as the Russell 2000 slid 6.43%
The $773.33 million fund puts more than 20% in industrials, which may have mattered as much as its quality screen in the smaller loss.
- Active
ETF Trends pitches NEOS CSHI to cash-heavy investors without pricing the options overlay
The pitch leans on U.S. Bank cash commentary but omits the fund's expense ratio, yield, and any detail on its S&P 500 overlay.
- The Tape
ETF Trends recommends advisors swap NLR for NUKZ to harvest nuclear ETF losses
The article says the $705 million NUKZ is outpacing the $3.6 billion NLR by more than 1,100 basis points in 2026 and holds about 50 stocks to NLR's 25.
- The Tape
Direxion's Netflix bull and inverse ETFs target 2x and 1x daily moves
Netflix sits nearly 44% below its 52-week high, and Deutsche Bank's Bryan Kraft upgraded the stock to buy while cutting his price target to $95 from $100.
- The Tape
Meta and Mercury announce deals as nuclear generation sets a record
ETF Trends is making the buildout case for NUKZ on that record, while five AI-capex issuers borrowed more than $132 billion in the first half.
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- Passive & Indexing
VTI leads Vanguard's September ETF flows as VOO misses top-eight list
Eight Vanguard ETFs each drew more than $1 billion over four weeks, and four of them are fixed-income funds.
- Active
August PCE comes in below forecasts, sharpening Guggenheim's active CLO ETF pitch
Headline 3.4% and core 3.0% annual inflation followed the Fed's September hike, giving Guggenheim's floating-rate credit pitch a clearer opening.
- Active
AllianceBernstein readies a call-writing income ETF for November
The AB Equity Premium Income ETF, ticker INK, targets a 10% to 12% annual distribution by pairing direct indexing with out-of-the-money call selling.
- Launches
Defiance's autism ETF carries a 0.79% fee and an equal-weighted clinical-trial screen
The Autism Impact ETF, billed as the first of its kind, screens developed-market companies on clinical trial activity with a $250 million market-cap floor.
- Launches
Jensen launches JQTY, a U.S. quality index ETF at 25 basis points
The fund tracks the 100 largest U.S. stocks with return on equity of at least 15% in each of the past ten fiscal years.
- The Tape
Nuclear generation sets 2,702 TWh record as ETF Trends argues NUKZ buildout case
The account puts operating capacity at 423 GWe across nearly 440 reactors, at an 83.7% average capacity factor.
- Passive & Indexing
Micron earnings loom over iShares VLUE's 23.5% Micron position
ETF Trends ranks two 2x single-stock funds and iShares VLUE as the largest ETF exposures to Micron, which reports Wednesday.
- The Tape
Hyperscaler bond issuance pushes tech past banks in IG bond indexes
The five AI-capex issuers borrowed more than $132 billion in the first half, lifting tech weight in pure corporate bond ETFs by about 300 basis points.
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- Active
Three of GTEK's top Taiwan holdings are up 170% to 210% this year
ETF Database ranks the Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF among the top three ETFs by exposure to each name, after a 46.5% year-to-date return.
- Launches
Invesco launches QQI, extending its QQQ suite beyond U.S. equities
The new fund tracks the Nasdaq International Innovators 100 Index, charges 0.29%, and holds TSMC at 10.71%.
- Issuers
BlackRock files to add ETF share classes to five active mutual funds
The five strategies held nearly $55 billion as of Aug. 31, and the firm said ETFs have become a preferred vehicle for investors.
- Launches
ChinaAMC lists HK-US cash-flow ETF; HALO fund follows next day
The new Solactive benchmarks hand Hong Kong most of the index weight even when its name count matches or trails the US.
- Launches
Schroders launches CoCo and USD investment grade corporate bond active ETFs
The two UCITS funds arrive a year after Schroders' first fixed income active ETF; Cindy Wang manages the CoCo fund.
- Passive & Indexing
FTSE Russell launches AI-driven thematic index series with MarketPsych
MarketPsych's AI classifies companies into five theme pillars; FTSE Russell's rules then decide the portfolio's weighting, caps and turnover.
- Active
Derivative ETF assets reach $214 billion as covered calls lead derivative-heavy launches
Fidelity strategists told a TMX VettaFi webcast that about half of this year's roughly 1,000 U.S. ETF launches incorporate derivatives.
- Issuers
Simplify offers $2.25 a share for Marygold, topping Madison Dearborn's $2.00 deal
Simplify says the cash proposal is its second for the USCF parent in recent days and prices the company 12.5% above Madison Dearborn's $2.00-a-share deal.
- Passive & Indexing
T. Rowe Price counts AI as nearly 60% of the Russell 1000 Growth Index
Timothy Murray's ChatGPT and FactSet review finds hyperscalers and AI infrastructure concentrated in large-cap growth, with the lightest exposure in U.S. small-caps and EAFE value.
- The Tape
European ETF sector flows converge with performance in Week 39
Information Technology led performance at 4.57% and drew €275.7m; Financials shed €1.03bn in the week to September 25.
- Passive & Indexing
AI infrastructure debt pushes tech past banks in major investment-grade bond indexes
Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Oracle issued more than $132 billion of bonds through the first half of 2026, lifting tech weight in pure corporate bond ETFs by about 300 basis points, according to ETF Trends.
- The Tape
Scalable Capital's European Investor Exchange extends its trading day to 17 hours
The venue, operated with Börse Hannover, covers thousands of equities and hundreds of ETFs, and says one in ten trades already executes before 9 a.m.
- The Tape
BlackRock model rebalance sends $2.2 billion into one active ETF
The fund has grown from just over $100 million in March to $9 billion.