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Guggenheim Investments, which sold its US ETF line nine years ago, filed for six active funds, including an ultrashort bond product.
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Stocks in banks with big credit card businesses dipped Monday and Tuesday, and ETFs that invest in them were not immune.
Vanguard established separate teams, with one overseeing most of the active stock funds and another bond funds and broad index funds.
Some ETF issuers are working to replicate big-name companies’ strategies by mimicking their holdings where possible.
Issuers are rolling out new varieties, including leveraged and buffered crypto ETFs, testing interest in anything beyond bitcoin and Ethereum.
The company will use AI to provide portfolio advisors with data from annual meetings to help inform their proxy votes.
Funds tracking foreign equity markets set new records in 2025, taking in $217 billion in assets.
ETF investors may seek asset classes they view as safer in a volatile era. One issuer filed for a Venezuela Exposure ETF.
The company’s crypto exchange-traded product push might be more about the tech than the individual products, one observer said.
Actively managed funds have the potential for outsized returns, but timing is everything. ARK ETFs did well.
Vega Capital Partners filed for 16 highly leveraged ETFs not long after the SEC told other issuers that such products wouldn’t fly.
Investors are still flocking to environmental, social and governance funds, even as criticism has grown louder on Capitol Hill.
Tuttle’s GRFT fund aims to capitalize on the links between power and profit in government but was turned away by all the major US exchanges.
The rise of model portfolios has enabled issuers to choose funds in their best interest — not necessarily the client’s.
AI and other tech platforms can help ETF issuers identify the best sales prospects among firms in their target markets.
Asset managers acknowledge the reality of paying to access Schwab customers, as they have started to do with Fidelity.
As active ETFs have exploded, so too has thematic investing, a dangerous trend for most investors, the author of a Morningstar report said.
Some products don’t have the capital to get off the ground. Larger ETF issuers can fix that.
The bond ladder ETFs come with a target date and can help advisors build income for clients’ major life events.
The ETF issuer is among the first in line for dual share classes, and it plans to use mutual-fund shares to access 401(k) plans.
Buffered ETFs are surging in popularity, particularly among retirees, and that bodes well for their future.
More than half of RIAs increased the number of strategies in which they invested.
ETF investors can feel the magic between A and I. It’s why they say they’re loading up on funds.
Investors pulled more than half a billion dollars out of BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust in just one day last week.
So-called copycat filings are picking up, but whether they’re a problem remains up for debate.
This week’s SEC decision may be one of the most significant since the ETF Rule in 2019.
Janus Henderson and Reckoner Capital Management both filed to launch new collateralized debt obligations strategies this month.
Trading fractional shares for whole shares will require some communication and help, according to one firm that offers shareholder services.
More people are planning to buy ETFs, and their biggest demands are exposure to stocks and digital assets, per BlackRock.
No state income taxes and pro-business policies have attracted hundreds of companies to the Lone Star State.
Some of the biggest companies in the ETF business haven’t been in the game for very long but are quickly gathering assets.
About 900 ETFs launched this year, and dozens of highly leveraged and spot crypto products await approval. Not all of them will catch on.
Fundstrat is back at the free throw line, this time with a small- and mid-cap ETF and another focused on income.