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PRIMECAP plans Wednesday launch of first ETF, POMG, at 0.68%
The PRIMECAP Odyssey Discovery ETF will trade on NYSE Arca and aims to beat the Russell Midcap Growth Index over three to five years, per its prospectus.
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Fidelity's FYEE fund reports a 9.1% trailing yield against a 6-8% payout target
Since inception, the fund held an equity beta of roughly 0.79 and captured about 80% to 85% of the S&P 500's cumulative return, according to Fidelity portfolio manager Eric Granat.
Fidelity survey: European allocators expect active ETF allocation to reach 14.6% in 18 months
CoreData polled 310 allocators across five European markets who already use or plan to use active ETFs.
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THNQ returned 4.5% over three months; CHAT fell 6.2%
THNQ charges 68 basis points to CHAT's 75, and its average weighted market capitalization is less than half CHAT's, according to the comparison.
Morningstar: active European bond funds outdrew passive in Q2 2026
Active bond funds took EUR47.5 billion against EUR36.5 billion for passive counterparts, even as passive strategies captured 75 per cent of European fund inflows.
Active ETFs make up over 80% of this year's new fund launches, ETF Trends says
The figure comes from a piece built around T. Rowe Price's TCAF, a 31-basis-point fund that marked three years as an ETF in June.
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Franklin Templeton announces Putnam's first European active ETF, starting on Xetra
The fund will hold 30 to 45 US stocks and list on the London Stock Exchange and Borsa Italiana a day after Xetra.
European active ETFs gather EUR28.9bn in first nine months of 2026, beating 2025
Assets reached EUR117.1 billion at the end of September, but active funds still hold only 3.4 percent of European ETF assets.
Franklin Templeton announces Putnam's first European active ETF on Xetra
The fund will hold 30 to 45 US stocks and will list on the LSE and Borsa Italiana a day after Xetra.
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Infrastructure Capital launches SPYC European active S&P 500 option-income ETF
Founder Jay Hatfield told ETF Express the firm manages roughly $4 billion and the new fund sits alongside NUKZ and PFFI.
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T. Rowe Price launches first European active ETFs with zero first-year fees
The Irish UCITS platform opens with two equity strategies, registering on Xetra on 8 October 2026, London on 15 October and Borsa Italiana on 22 October.
ProShares files for AI hyperscaler bond ETF tracking VettaFi index
The index is nearly 75% AA-rated or higher, with almost half its holdings maturing in a decade or more.
Capital Appreciation Equity ETF took $647 million of T. Rowe Price's September ETF inflows
The Active Crypto ETF returned 8.7% and the Technology ETF 8%, but neither drew much new cash, according to our records.
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Direxion's MEIB targets a 20% distribution yield on Meta
The actively managed fund, one of seven in Direxion's Defined Income Boost suite, pays twice a month and forgoes some of Meta's upside.
Paper finds active ETF positioning before earnings calls predicts a friendlier call tone
The result rests on daily holdings disclosure that mutual funds do not provide, and on flow-adjusted weight changes measured over the 15 trading days before a call.
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Direxion's MUIB targets a 20% distribution yield on a single Micron position
The fund, one of seven in Direxion's single-stock income suite, pays twice monthly through what it calls a risk-managed options strategy.
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ETF Trends pitches NEOS CSHI to cash-heavy investors without pricing the options overlay
The pitch leans on U.S. Bank cash commentary but omits the fund's expense ratio, yield, and any detail on its S&P 500 overlay.
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August PCE comes in below forecasts, sharpening Guggenheim's active CLO ETF pitch
Headline 3.4% and core 3.0% annual inflation followed the Fed's September hike, giving Guggenheim's floating-rate credit pitch a clearer opening.
AllianceBernstein readies a call-writing income ETF for November
The AB Equity Premium Income ETF, ticker INK, targets a 10% to 12% annual distribution by pairing direct indexing with out-of-the-money call selling.
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Three of GTEK's top Taiwan holdings are up 170% to 210% this year
ETF Database ranks the Goldman Sachs Future Tech Leaders Equity ETF among the top three ETFs by exposure to each name, after a 46.5% year-to-date return.
Derivative ETF assets reach $214 billion as covered calls lead derivative-heavy launches
Fidelity strategists told a TMX VettaFi webcast that about half of this year's roughly 1,000 U.S. ETF launches incorporate derivatives.
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BlackRock's model rebalance shifted advisor money from three ETFs into one active fund
The iShares Large Cap Core Active ETF took in $2.2 billion over five days and has grown from just over $100 million in March to $9 billion, according to ETF Trends.
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The earnings calendar is marketing. The mandate is the product.
T. Rowe Price's earnings-season pitch sells agility, but two funds in the same suite show the edge that actually earns the fee is a mandate the index rules cannot replicate.
The $2.72 trillion active ETF record is a three-firm story
A record $663.59 billion in inflows this year has concentrated in Dimensional, J.P. Morgan and iShares, while the rest of the industry fights for shelf space.
Baron puts a risk budget around its stock picking
BROL promises S&P 500 outperformance with low tracking error, and its August holdings sit inside the benchmark it has to beat.
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Options ETFs hit $300 billion with half the room undecided
A decade of listings built a $300 billion options category. Half the room has not bought, and the buyers who have cannot agree on what they own, so the next leg turns on explanation.
Texas takes a listing. Keeping it traded is harder.
The SEC's 60/75-day effectiveness window once set the launch calendar; with four funds listed on TXSE, the gatekeeper is whoever agrees to quote them.
TURF's 35.7% is a two-name energy trade wearing an active fee
A natural-resources fund whose write-up credits Exxon and Shell has to prove the 44 basis points are buying selection, not a leveraged bet on the commodities underneath it.
Fixed-income flows are parked at the front end, not the long end
The conference-stage debate over long bonds and derivative income is a bet on when the front-end parking trade unwinds, and the $459 billion record gives the timeline.
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NTHM's Rulebook Cut Tech and Bought Pipelines. The Product Is the Rulebook.
One rebalance took technology from 40.78% to 25.20% and handed the energy and healthcare sleeves to pipelines and GLP-1 makers, the wrapper working exactly as designed.
TTEQ's 22-point lead is the wrapper earning its fee
T. Rowe Price's active tech ETF has the returns; the question is whether a mandate built on a definition index funds cannot use holds up when technology leadership narrows.
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WisdomTree's inflation bundle runs on a 28% energy bet
A commodities-and-TIPS wrapper answers real dispersion between the two—right up until the commodity leg's energy weight is the only thing producing the return.
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The income shelf now charges for the structure, not the pick
Autocallables, CLO tranches, and a 15 percent private cap are one fee model—managers get paid for the build—and two dates will decide whether it holds.
SDCI's supercycle pitch pays off in the oil curve
Broad commodity funds are drawing flows from war-driven scarcity and roll, not from the demand story the supercycle label implies.
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Tweedy, Browne's COPY crosses $400 million as value flows return
A single trade account puts a boutique's insider-buying filter past a threshold that says more about distribution than about the screen.
Active ETFs' durable pitch is tax and trading mechanics
Short-duration active bond funds get sold as all-weather answers to the Fed, which is precisely where a management fee has the least to come out of.
Schroders and ARK chase the autocallable ETF Calamos proved
Calamos' $1.3 billion fund turned autocallables into an advisor product; the next entrants are betting the channel holds when the coupon stops.
Reckoner's CLO arbitrage belongs to the tranches
The zero-default records at AAA and BBB are properties of CLO tranche design, and Reckoner's two funds are different bets on them.
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Reckoner's CLO pitch is a structure trade with a price
Two active CLO ETFs make a specialist's case for tranche design and leverage, and hand the whole argument to the rate cycle.
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Active ETFs take 37% of flows on a three-year-old shelf
A flow share three times the asset share is wrapper migration, and the experience premium incumbents sell has an 18-month shelf life.