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After a dive, the company’s stock is still up 8% in 2025, while both long and short leveraged ETFs are down.
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The world’s largest asset manager and issuer of the biggest crypto ETF is expanding into staked Ethereum. Is there room for anyone else?
Active fixed-income strategies accounted for nearly half of ETF inflows so far this year.
Niche strategies, like buffer ETFs, could play a larger role in deal activity.
Its price is up 100%, significantly ahead of gold’s surge, and the (very) few silver ETFs on the US market have benefited.
The company’s flagship ETF, QQQ, is just shy of enough votes to approve its reclassification as an open-end fund.
Recent developments at Vanguard and Bank of America have boosted momentum for digital assets including bitcoin ETFs.
The company on Tuesday reversed its ban on Bitcoin and other crypto ETFs, giving access to many of its 50 million clients.
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.
Some of the largest S&P 500-based funds lost billions this year as institutional investors sought out cheaper alternatives.
The rare earths industry is booming as the materials are used less in electric vehicles and more in AI data centers.
Asset managers have repurposed sustainable funds amid a pullback from them in the US. This change is more substantial than most.
Tokenized securities are moving closer to a reality as issuers make plans to bring more assets and funds on-chain.
Even with the lights out at the SEC, it’s unlikely that ETF issuers seeking 3x and 5x funds will sail through the approval process.
The new VanEck TruSector ETFs invest in stocks and other ETFs to maximize exposure to individual companies and reflect actual market caps.
No one knows the future, but high inflation could make some investments virtually worthless.
As regulators have warmed up to crypto and assets have poured into ETFs, advisors who ignore the trend risk losing clients, proponents said.
Analysts from JPMorgan on Monday wrote that levered ETFs might worsen macro swings by increasing intraday volatility.
The firm has waited until now to expand its US product line as sales trends are favoring ETFs over many mutual funds.
As the iShares Bitcoin Trust nears the milestone, dozens of spot-price crypto ETFs are being prepped to come to market.
Low-fee products tracking indexes have outperformed their higher-fee ETF counterparts and have raked in assets.
The meme stock category isn’t about stonks and tendies anymore, and the new iteration focuses on broader retail sentiment.
Investors have been piling into gold ETFs amid uncertainty exacerbated by the government shutdown and the dollar’s declining status.
A slew of 3x leveraged single-stock ETF filings highlights issuer appetite for increasingly risky strategies.
Categories outside of the US are seeing double the returns of the S&P 500, despite high tariffs imposed by the Trump administration.
The SEC halted operations last week amid the federal government shutdown, pausing dozens of ETF applications.
It may not be an ideal time for high-yield corporate bonds, but State Street is filling out its target-maturity suite with several new ETFs.
Active managers like to tout their defy-the-odds abilities, but chances to get in on tomorrow’s large cap stocks slimmer, Morningstar says.
ETF share classes of mutual funds (and the other way around) are so close, yet so very far away, as fund boards have a lot of work ahead.