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Cboe options volume falls 4% as ETF options grow
Growth was concentrated in index and ETF options in a quarter when total volume fell 4%.
Guggenheim's GCSH takes $147 million in seven weeks
The ultra-short income ETF holds about $290 million and carried a 4.49% 30-day SEC yield as of Sept. 30, ETF Trends reports.
xETFs Samsung Group ETF (SMNG) lists Oct. 23 on Nasdaq
GTS Securities is the designated liquidity provider and daily valuations begin the same day
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Options-based ETFs near $400bn as derivative income takes two-thirds of flows
Schwab's SCIN is expected to list Oct. 21 and Calamos's CAYN is set to launch Oct. 26; iShares data show high-yield flows turned negative for the first time since March.
Calamos sets Oct. 26 launch for least-of autocallable ETF CAYN
The fund ladders at least 52 notes tied to the weakest of three index ETFs; coupon and maturity barriers are both set at -30%.
FTSE Russell proposes moving 74% of Russell 1000 market cap to growth index
The value index would narrow to about a quarter of the large-cap gauge and add price-to-sales; comments are due Dec. 11.
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Options-based ETFs near $400 billion with more than 1,000 funds
Derivative income funds hold about $230 billion, or roughly 59% of category assets, and have captured about two thirds of this year's flows so far.
ETP launches reach 1,159 by Oct. 20; Nasdaq lists five new ETFs
RBC Capital Markets was designated liquidity provider for four of the five funds and Jane Street for the fifth, according to exchange notices.
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Cboe puts Q3 options ADV at 70.6 million contracts, 4% below Q2 record
Growth was concentrated in index and ETF options even as total activity cooled, the quarterly review says.
MSCI opens consultation on dropping Indonesia; Jakarta shares fall 16%
Indonesia is less than 0.5% of the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF, yet Jakarta shares fell 16% over two sessions.
Global ETF assets slip to $22.8tn in September despite $207bn of net inflows
LSEG Lipper put iShares first among promoters at $64.7 billion, with U.S.-domiciled funds drawing $141.6 billion of the month's total.
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Cybersecurity ETFs drew €101.3m and lost 10.06% in the week to 16 October
Trackinsight data published by ETF Express show equity ETFs took €5.23bn over the five days while Financials lost €628.5m.
Nasdaq disseminates three AI Select index lines; THNQ and CHAT stand 10.7 points apart
The three Nasdaq lines differ only by return treatment; THNQ charges 68 basis points to CHAT’s 75.
Vanguard's VOO flips from $19.36 billion July inflow to $13.3 billion September outflow
Ultumus data show iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) took the opposite side in July, while all 20 largest ETF issuers still posted net inflows in September.
Global ETF flows passed $1 trillion for the year as VOO and IVV diverged
Ultumus's July report, published Aug. 4, put VOO at $19.36 billion of net inflows for the month and IVV at a $17.8 billion outflow.
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All 20 largest ETF issuers posted net inflows in September; VOO lost $13.3bn
Ultumus put global ETF assets at $21.35tn, down 0.9% like-for-like as market moves outweighed $150bn of net inflows.
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State Street launches four S&P 500 sector SPDR ETFs with uncapped weights and 0.12% fee
Each fund holds its Select Sector SPDR counterpart as a base and buys top index names directly to reach the sector's full S&P 500 weight.
September ETF flows favor Treasuries as credit demand slips
iShares data put investment-grade credit inflows at $1.9 billion and high-yield flows negative for the first time since March.
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HANetf report: global ETF assets top USD24tn, European ETPs hit record USD3.9tn
European ETFs drew USD147.79 billion of net inflows in Q3, and HANetf says crypto ETP assets posted the strongest relative growth, up 55.68 per cent.
21shares launches synthetic Anthropic ETP using swaps on perpetual-futures index
The 21shares x FalconX Limited SPV sources swaps on a Kaiko rate derived from Binance's Anthropic perpetual futures, with FalconX Limited as counterparty.
European ETF inflows hit USD41.7bn in September, a sixth month above USD40bn
Bond funds took USD9.7 billion of the total while core US equity ETFs drew just USD1.7 billion, per Invesco's snapshot.
iShares data show $269.1bn September ETP inflows as Treasury flows jump
Investment-grade credit flows fell to $1.9 billion and high-yield turned negative for the first time since March.
European ETFs draw EUR127.4bn in Q3, Amundi flags record year in reach
Equity funds provided EUR99.3 billion of the quarter’s net new assets, and gold ETCs and ETPs took more than EUR10 billion, Amundi’s review says.
NEOS QQQI crosses $15 billion ahead of Goldman move
The options-income ETF took in $7 billion of 2026 inflows and is expected to join Goldman Sachs Asset Management in early 2027, pending the acquisition.
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NEOS QQQI crosses $15 billion after $7 billion of 2026 inflows
The fund is expected to join Goldman Sachs Asset Management's lineup in early 2027, pending completion of the acquisition, ETF Trends reported.
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Tokio Marine, Schroders, BlueOrchard and IFC in $2bn fund launch as M&G starts $74m feeder
Both launches were logged Oct. 12, our records show; the $2 billion vehicle is roughly 27 times the size of M&G's $74 million private credit feeder.
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Infrastructure Capital launches SPYC, an active S&P 500 option-income ETF for Europe
Founder Jay Hatfield told ETF Express the firm manages roughly $4 billion, and SPYC joins NUKZ and PFFI in the lineup.
M&G launches $74 million private credit feeder fund
The launch was logged Oct. 12, the same day as a $2 billion fund launch involving Tokio Marine, International Finance Corporation, Schroders and BlueOrchard.
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T. Rowe Price launches first European active ETFs with zero first-year fee
The two Irish-domiciled equity strategies list on Xetra on 8 October, London on 15 October and Borsa Italiana on 22 October.
SEI to connect ETP order management to ICE ETF Hub amid multi-exchange UCITS launches
Vanguard's high yield fund is slated for five European exchanges and T. Rowe Price's first active ETFs are scheduled for Xetra, London and Borsa Italiana.
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Searches for 'buyback ETF' jump 5,000% after Nvidia's $150 billion buyback authorization
The $150 billion authorization is roughly 15% of the $1 trillion in U.S. buybacks in 2025, though the two measures are not directly comparable.
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Optiver starts quoting WisdomTree's EURO STOXX 50 autocallable ETFs on Xetra and Borsa Italiana
The market maker went live September 30 with four ISINs of each strategy on the two European venues.
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Optiver starts quoting WisdomTree's autocallable ETFs on screen
The market maker went live September 30 on two EURO STOXX 50 strategies, with four ISINs of each listing on Xetra and Borsa Italiana.
T. Rowe Price's top September ETF returns drew little cash; core funds led flows
The Active Crypto ETF returned 8.7% and the Technology ETF 8%, but the Capital Appreciation Equity ETF took $647.47 million of the lineup's $1.41 billion in September inflows.
GraniteShares takes five of eight slots on last week's leveraged and inverse ETF ranking
BlackBerry's 2x fund led with nearly 28%, with two SpaceX products and two inverse funds also on ETF Trends' weekly list.
Thirty-year muni yield climbs to 5.18%, its highest since 2011, as data-center supply meets redemptions
The move follows a 4.4% monthly drop in state and local debt, which ETF Trends calls the steepest sell-off for munis since 2008.
Financials led European ETF inflows and fell 4.05%, the week's worst sector return
Trackinsight's week-40 recap shows €309.8 million into financials funds while technology, the best-performing sector at 3.20%, did not appear among the top four gatherers.
US-listed ETF flows beat 2025 full-year record in September, State Street says
A $13 billion final-day inflow took 2026's total to $1.54 trillion, past the $1.52 trillion gathered across all of last year.
Dimensional folds final ETFs back into mutual fund shares
The eight-fund reverse conversion moved roughly $100 billion into mutual funds that now hold $150 billion, with asset-weighted fee cuts taking effect November 1.
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VettaFi buys the index behind Invesco's $8 billion PPA
The SPADE Defense Index acquisition follows August's RAFI purchase and pushes assets tied to its aerospace and defense franchise past $11 billion.