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The world’s largest asset manager launched an active fund, the iShares $ EM Bond Active Ucits ETF, in April.
Global investors are itching for access to unicorns in the convenient ETF wrapper.
While some clean energy products have outperformed this year, it’s not all sunshine and daisies for ESG.
Several funds expected to launch this week are on hold after the agency asked for more information about the proposed products.
Pensions, endowments and other institutional asset owners are finding new uses for exchange-traded funds.
Yields on short-duration bond funds are outperforming money markets. Investors are taking note.
The trend differs from the famous fund managers of the mutual fund business, but there is a niche being built by research analysts with recognizable names.
Roundhill and GraniteShares indicated that they could soon launch funds making election bets.
Advisors still aren’t the big crypto fans, viewing the asset class as too speculative and volatile to fit into a traditional financial plan.
Gabe Plotkin, whose firm Melvin Capital was hit hard during the GameStop short squeeze, is reportedly seeding the fund via a 351 exchange.
Products that replicate structured note payoffs in the ETF wrapper are growing in popularity and have even launched in Europe.
Worldwide, active ETFs delivered their highest quarter ever at the start of 2026, and the US and Asia-Pacific region added hundreds of funds.
With much interest in space technology, companies like Global X, WisdomTree and First Trust have new or forthcoming products focused on it.
Active ETFs continue to gain traction.
The new hire highlights RayJay’s growing aspirations in a quickly evolving ETF landscape.
The company’s third autocallable ETF has a “memory” feature for notes that don’t pay out in years with down markets.
The firm is getting some additions to its lineup, which currently consists almost entirely of leveraged and inverse funds.
Demand for power, long before the Iran war, has boosted funds focused on energy.
The company’s forthcoming ETF differs from other bitcoin funds because it also focuses on income.
The forthcoming fund focuses specifically on the autonomous taxi services theme.
A comparison of a well-diversified portfolio versus the basic 60/40 strategy shows that plain vanilla won most of the time over 20 years, according to Morningstar.
Investors got two new choices in bitcoin funds last week: The now lowest-cost spot product, and a vampire fund for overnight returns.
Citigroup analysts are projecting significant growth in the industry, while the research firm ETFGI is even more bullish than that.
Funds that use social data to pick stocks can be more volatile than broad-market ETFs, and they lean into momentum.
The company filed for a Nasdaq 100 ETF just one day after BlackRock’s iShares did the same.
Energy sector funds attracted a record $5 billion of inflows.
Memory stocks have been surging for the past year.
Potential initial public offerings from SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI will make big indexes even more concentrated.
The industry is still in growth mode, but getting more businesslike, said Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas.
Funds with downside protection are becoming increasingly popular, even though most have existed only in a bull market, without much of a chance to show off their downside protection.
Money has been draining out of US sustainable funds for years, but passives and some energy-focused funds are garnering interest.
The crypto ETF world is evolving far beyond spot-price funds, a segment dominated by iShares.