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Institutional Investors Nearly Doubled ETF Usage Over Past 5 Years

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Pensions, endowments and other institutional asset owners are finding new uses for exchange-traded funds.

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Will Prediction-Market ETFs Launch This Week? Yes or No

Roundhill and GraniteShares indicated that they could soon launch funds making election bets.

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Why Autocallable ETFs Are Gaining Ground on Structured Notes

Products that replicate structured note payoffs in the ETF wrapper are growing in popularity and have even launched in Europe.

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Active ETF Sales Globally Surge 70%

Worldwide, active ETFs delivered their highest quarter ever at the start of 2026, and the US and Asia-Pacific region added hundreds of funds.

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BlackRock, State Street Want In on the Nasdaq 100. Can They Compete With Invesco’s QQQ?

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Expense ratios aren’t listed in the new filings, but the newcomers have significant backing and reach to support the launches.

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ETF Assets May Top $25 Trillion in the US by 2030

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Citigroup analysts are projecting significant growth in the industry, while the research firm ETFGI is even more bullish than that.

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Why the $100M AUM Survival Limit May No Longer Matter

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It’s becoming less expensive to manage ETFs, allowing more funds to remain on the market with lower AUM, according to analysts.

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