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Every ETFs story, newest first. 451 stories
2 stories
- Passive & Indexing
SOXL’s 17% slide undercuts the single-stock precision pitch
Direxion’s targeted chip funds multiplied a semiconductor trade that moved as one story on September 14.
- Regulation
The SEC's novel-ETF review is a fight over the launch clock
The comment period closed August 31, but the 60- and 75-day effectiveness window, not the product list, decides who launches next.
8 stories
- Passive & Indexing
The Japan defense ETF trade is mostly a Korea trade
Seoul has already made the 3.5 percent-of-GDP commitment; Tokyo has only indicated it could, and Japan is 14.58 percent of the WisdomTree Asia Defense Fund.
- Launches
Janus Henderson ports its U.S. factor framework to EAFE
The fund is the fourth ticker in the SystemActive line, and its pitch rests on a two-decade payout spread rather than the asset class's best relative year since 1993.
- Issuers
Amplify takes the wrapper; Fairlead keeps the strategy
The TACK reorganization moves an advisor's seat and a fund's name while leaving the strategy — and the brand that holds the assets — exactly where they were.
- Passive & Indexing
PRFZ at 20: the profitability filter is the edge
Invesco's fundamental-weight SMID fund has a decade of outperformance to point to, and a chosen comparison that quietly concedes both indices are mid-cap vehicles.
- Issuers
Crossover ETFs sell private growth the wrapper cannot price
Issuers have made a 15% illiquid cap into a sales pitch. Anthropic's debut will put the sleeve's first real number on the board.
- The Tape
Five geared ETF launches, none from a leveraged-specialist house
Ultumus' 8 September roundup puts Harbor, AXS, Evolve, WisdomTree, and VanEck on the same shelf, and the roster says the wrapper is the product.
- Passive & Indexing
The floating-rate trio sells rate cover and charges for credit
Two index funds sit a basis point apart while the active option charges 45 more and yields 221 more; this week's Fed meeting is the wrong lens for the difference.
- Passive & Indexing
Sprott's uranium ETFs sell an AI story that spot hasn't confirmed
The nuclear pitch has migrated from tight supply to hyperscaler capital, and the funds now package each version of the demand case.
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- The Tape
Canada's ETF market grows by converting the clients it already has
ETFs now hold a quarter of Canadian fund assets and run 2.5 times the net creations of open-end mutual funds — growth built on moving existing clients into new wrappers.
- Active
Tweedy, Browne's COPY crosses $400 million as value flows return
A single trade account puts a boutique's insider-buying filter past a threshold that says more about distribution than about the screen.
- Active
Active ETFs' durable pitch is tax and trading mechanics
Short-duration active bond funds get sold as all-weather answers to the Fed, which is precisely where a management fee has the least to come out of.
- Launches
Tuttle's PCPC sells the combined ratio as the stock picker
A 20-name P&C fund weighted by underwriting profitability turns a rules-based quality screen into the product and an annual June rebuild into the risk.
- Active
Schroders and ARK chase the autocallable ETF Calamos proved
Calamos' $1.3 billion fund turned autocallables into an advisor product; the next entrants are betting the channel holds when the coupon stops.
- Launches
Four new ETFs sliced the AI buildout into correlated sleeves
DCAP, CHIP, AIBF and BUIL went effective within one weekend, cutting a single capital program into four tradable pieces.
- Active
Reckoner's CLO arbitrage belongs to the tranches
The zero-default records at AAA and BBB are properties of CLO tranche design, and Reckoner's two funds are different bets on them.
- Passive & Indexing
The 5% ten-year is a duration call an income overlay cannot make
NEOS is selling a 3.53% yield as comfort to nervous bond investors in the week the ten-year first touched 5% since 2023 — a payout that arrives without touching the duration exposure.
- Passive & Indexing
WTV is beating an index built on the value definition it dropped
A 20-year-old value fund's shareholder-yield screen is outrunning the value benchmark by 400 basis points, a gap that measures drift in the value label as much as the fund itself.
- The Tape
Bond ETFs set a flow record while the book shrinks
The $446 billion says more about the wrapper than about bonds, and the Fed vote lands on both.
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- The Tape
State Street's midterm playbook doesn't need an election
The financials case rests on agency rulemaking, the energy income fund on a forecast its own sponsor calls negative — neither one is a bet on November.
- Passive & Indexing
The equal-weight cap made SDOG's 19.36% run
A $1.41 billion dividend fund is beating a market it deliberately underweights in its best-performing sector, and its 3.32% yield is the reason income investors are paying attention.
- The Tape
The ETF industry's next moat is quoting capacity
Canada's CAD125 billion ETF year and National Bank's research sale point to the binding constraint: complex products are being listed faster than the desks behind them can price the baskets.
- Passive & Indexing
The value label hides a 1,100-basis-point rules decision
Advisors screening value funds on category names or sector weights are looking past the only variable that separated a 21% year from an 11% one; holdings overlap missed it too.
1 story
- The Tape
National Bank sells research; the quoting desk is the moat
Canada's CAD125 billion ETF year makes quoting capacity the scarce asset, and concentration in a few balance sheets is the issuer's problem.
6 stories
- The Tape
Ultrashort bond ETFs run on a spread that rates will test
Short-term government funds took 94% of August's government bond ETF flows and 82% of the year's—a rate-cycle trade with an expiration date.
- The Tape
Active ETFs Are Winning by Being Less Active
A 37% flow share on a three-year-old shelf says the wrapper is being bought faster than the strategies inside it can prove themselves.
- Passive & Indexing
ALPS's REIT ETF case is a sub-segment tilt, not stock skill
Healthcare REITs are 21.65% of the ALPS book and most of the argument, which makes occupancy and leverage numbers, not manager judgment, the things to track from here.
- The Tape
Japan's AI pitch is a 14% sleeve on a payout fund
ETF Trends makes the case for OPPJ, but the caveat from WisdomTree's research head is the more useful part of the argument.
- The Tape
The ETF launch machine is outrunning its market makers
Complex products are being listed faster than the desks that quote them can price the baskets behind them.
- Active
Reckoner's CLO pitch is a structure trade with a price
Two active CLO ETFs make a specialist's case for tranche design and leverage, and hand the whole argument to the rate cycle.
9 stories
- Passive & Indexing
The muni renaissance runs through the top bracket
Taxable-equivalent yields have pulled high earners back into tax-exempt credit, but the $105 billion flow figure cannot say whether cheap beta is capturing any of it.
- Active
Active ETFs take 37% of flows on a three-year-old shelf
A flow share three times the asset share is wrapper migration, and the experience premium incumbents sell has an 18-month shelf life.
- Launches
MFS puts two short-duration ETFs at one fee
The taxable and tax-exempt twins both launch at 0.25%, setting up a test of whether short-duration demand outlasts the rate cycle that produced it.
- Active
Goldman's AI pitch is really a case for the active wrapper
The dispersion figure is the best quantitative argument active management has had in years, and GSAM's own framing shows what would have to change for it to hold.
- Passive & Indexing
OEFA's dividend case leans on buybacks
Two showcase holdings, two buyback programs, and an index fee that funds the marketing say more than the dividend label does.
- The Tape
The 2x shelf is an inventory business; churn is the product
Four years after AXS put eight 2x funds on Tesla and Nvidia, issuers file leveraged products on drone makers and bitcoin miners, close them just as fast, and stock the same trade twice in one week.
- Active
The fee page arrives after the ticker in Europe's active ETF wave
Pictet and Deutsche put active strategies in front of European intermediaries without publishing what they cost, and the shelf will have to price them anyway.
- Active
Hedged equity sells patience in a wrapper built for leaving
A category that buried 2,100 funds on investor behavior is now distributed through the most impatient vehicle on the shelf.
- Launches
ETF issuers mine narrow mandates as the broad shelf fills
Autocallables, prediction markets and MLCC parts on the US list, a share-class amendment instead of a new fund overseas: that mix is what a crowded shelf looks like.