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Every ETFs story, newest first. 451 stories
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- Launches
Pictet's AI label arrives at SIX without a fee page
The exchange-traded wrapper gets the strategy in front of Swiss intermediaries; the missing expense ratio decides whether it keeps them.
- Active
A value fund buys tech when the multiple and an insider agree
Tweedy Browne's COPY holds 6.22% in information technology, and the Adobe trade behind it shows the arithmetic doing the work, with the insider as timing.
- The Tape
Aggregators are buying the teams now
LPL, Modern Wealth, and Edelman acquired production teams in a single day, testing whether roll-up multiples survive the wirehouse talent war.
- Issuers
The 2x single-stock shelf is now an inventory business
Four years after AXS listed eight funds on Tesla and Nvidia, issuers are filing 2x products on drone makers and bitcoin miners, and closing them just as quickly.
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- Launches
VanEck's agribusiness ETF is a defensive pitch on a cyclical index
A 50 per cent agricultural-revenue floor puts the fund in fertilizers and farm machinery—not where a portfolio buffer usually lives.
- The Tape
Duplicate 2x longs crowd the leveraged ETF leaderboard
Robinhood and Strategy each produced two near-identical daily doubles last week, turning the leaderboard into a catalog of repeats.
- Passive & Indexing
Energy ETFs split by how they touch the barrel
With oil back above $100, the energy aisle separates into four distinct trades.
- Passive & Indexing
The EM diversification pitch is now a three-chip bet
Broad emerging-markets benchmarks now hold more than 45 percent of their country weight in Taiwan and South Korea, and a quarter of their assets in three semiconductor names.
- Passive & Indexing
XSVM's small-cap lead runs on momentum
Momentum decides which stocks get in; value decides how much weight they get. That's why XSVM is 200 basis points ahead of both benchmarks.
- The Tape
The wirehouse liftout turns inward
Merrill and UBS pulled $2.2 billion from Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo in a week. Wirehouse private wealth units now recruit from one another.
- Active
South African active managers no longer see active ETFs as a threat
A Prescient Fund Services survey found no respondents view actively managed ETFs as a risk to unit trusts, while 88% expect meaningful growth over five years.
- Issuers
Xtrackers keeps its name in Deutsche Asset Management rebrand
DWS becomes a home-market active brand while Xtrackers carries the group's global passive franchise under a new institutional umbrella.
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- The Tape
Oil near $100 turns NDIV into a momentum trade
Amplify's covered-call energy fund has returned 40.8% this year, its monthly 5% cap letting the strongest names run until the next reset.
- Passive & Indexing
Index Funds Are No Longer the Neutral Default
Top-heavy equities and Treasury-heavy bonds have quietly remade what core passive funds deliver.
- The Tape
Pentagon forecast becomes a rare-earth ETF pitch
Sprott's REXC packages a bet that U.S. demand for specialty magnets will outgrow China's 94% grip on production.
- Passive & Indexing
Faith-based ETFs are outgrowing negative screening
The 48-fund U.S. shelf is broadening past equity screens; the harder work, the global numbers suggest, is building indexes that choose as well as exclude.
- Active
NEOS pitches XSPI as the answer to the S&P 500's record-low dividend yield
The Boosted S&P 500 High Income ETF layers a long index overlay onto SPYI's covered-call income, giving advisors a yield product that is really an equity-volatility bet.
- Launches
Direxion sells Nvidia's volatility as a 20% yield
The new NVIB fund turns Nvidia's price swings into twice-monthly income, betting on the volatility a 0.44% dividend can't provide.
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- The Tape
Anthropic's debut will break the daily reset
Leveraged single-stock ETFs that list before a stable close forms will rebalance against a phantom close.
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- Active
Anthropic IPO filing sets up a daily-rebalance test
A likely $1 trillion AI debut will test how leveraged single-stock ETFs handle a listing with no price history.
4 stories
- Launches
Daiwa's new ETF stacks gold and Treasuries in one ticker
The Tokyo-listed iFreeETF Gold plus Income turns a gold-and-Treasury allocation into a single rules-based benchmark.
- Passive & Indexing
FLDR puts the index in the manager's chair
FLDR pairs a one-year duration cap with statistical sampling at 15 basis points, five basis points cheaper than Fidelity's active fund, and leaves the credit calls to an optimizer.
- Launches
DWS lists two active euro credit ETFs in London
The Xtrackers pair promises moderate outperformance within benchmark fences; high yield is the fund where selection can pay.
- The Tape
HODU traders get a football catalyst from the Rothera shift
Analysts see the NFL season lifting prediction-market revenue on Robinhood's own venue, while the 2x single-stock ETF will measure the trade one day at a time.
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- Launches
Deutsche adds a short-duration high-yield ETF on HYLB's index
SHYL takes HYLB's Solactive index and limits its portfolio to bonds maturing in under five years; the expense ratio remains undisclosed.
- The Tape
Lithium's rally is a grid-storage trade
LITP's 19.62% monthly NAV gain points to battery-storage demand, not just electric-vehicle appetite.
- The Tape
SMRF's August was a uranium rally in a tech wrapper
Energy names drove more than 70% of SMRF's 9.02% August index gain, making a would-be reactor-tech fund a uranium-mining trade for the month.
- The Tape
QINT's 2026 inflows show the rotation wants a filter
The American Century Quality Diversified International ETF has added more than a third of its asset base this year, evidence that model portfolios are buying a screen rather than the world.
- Active
American Century sells a screen against concentration
On ETF Prime, American Century's product chief ties a $40 billion inflow year to clients asking whether their growth sleeve is actually diversified.
- The Tape
COAL's 23.4% August is a scarcity trade
Coal producers are collecting scarcity rents, but the hedge pitch only works in one direction.
- Active
Single-Stock Options ETFs Make Volatility the Product
A 20% payout target on Alphabet and $60 million in first-week flows for Guggenheim's GEEQ bring the active wrapper into single-stock options-income products that manage risk first.
- Active
Direxion packages Alphabet's volatility as a 20% payout target
The new single-stock fund arranges options premiums into twice-monthly paychecks; the 20% target is a product objective, not a contract.
- The Tape
The fixed-income wrapper migration is now a flow story
August's $180 billion U.S.-listed ETF haul left bond funds $41 billion shy of last year's record, with inflows bypassing plain aggregate beta for rate-hedged and floating-rate products built for 4.78 percent ten-year yields.
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- The Tape
Bond ETFs on pace to top 2025 record after $180B August
State Street counts August US-listed ETF inflows at 3.8 times the historical average, leaving bond funds $41 billion from last year's record.
- The Tape
BATT’s August gain was a mining story wearing a battery label
Materials contributed 8.96 of the fund’s 10.38 percentage-point gain, leaving battery and EV names to ride along.
- Issuers
Texas Capital moves OILT and TXS to the Texas Stock Exchange
The funds would become the Texas Stock Exchange's first primary listings, with OILT up 45.23% year to date.
- Active
AGZD finally gets a market built for its zero-duration design
WisdomTree's rate-hedged aggregate fund turns 13 just as U.S. 10-year yields hit 4.78 percent, their highest since January 2025, and hike odds climb past two-thirds.
- Active
Guggenheim's GCLO makes a defensive CLO case
Guggenheim's GCLO builds a defensive case for investment-grade CLOs, with floating-rate income, broad loan exposure and a 35 bp fee.
- The Tape
Software outruns semis as AI trade hands off from chips
Horizon's latest commentary puts third-quarter software up 20.8% and outgunning semiconductors by 36.6%, leaving sector ETFs to prove the AI-monetization story is broader than four earnings calls.
- Issuers
Goldman and Victory pay up for proven ETF shelves
August's acquisitions by Goldman, Victory and T. Rowe Price put a price on the advisor relationships that now matter more than product innovation.