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Every Features story in ETFs, newest first. 69 stories
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- Active
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.
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- The Tape
REX's CHIP fund buys the bottleneck after the index ran 126.6%
The fund opened with 52.5% in ten names and a third of its assets in one country, leaving the first-year return to the rebalance calendar as much as the theme.
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- Launches
The ETF shelf is rented now
Three Tidal trusts took 13 of the week's 25 listings, and the filing record shows the platform model doing the rest of the work.
- The Tape
Rulebooks are selling AI while private capital buys it
HALX, QGRO, VFLO and OUSM rotated out of AI exposure their holders never voted to sell; Brookfield and Google kept underwriting the buildout instead.
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- The Tape
The ETF record belongs to three funds, not the shelf
Record inflows keep landing in three cheap funds, while BNY's $20 billion book, Amplify's 15% private sleeve and a 1,100-point value gap add shelf space that moves none of the dollars.
- The Tape
The AI-power trade is now a private deal
Brookfield's $600 million ACME tie-up and a day of clean-energy procurement should worry the issuers who just listed data-center funds with no assets.
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- The Tape
The value label hides three rule books and a 1,100-point gap
Three funds file as value, follow different index rules, and finished the year 1,100 basis points apart—the cost of screening on a category instead of a methodology.
- The Tape
The SEC's clock, not demand, decides the next ETF wave
With the SEC's comment period closed, the 60- and 75-day effectiveness windows set the launch order for novel ETF filings.
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- The Tape
The bond ETF record is a parking trade
The $446 billion landed at the front end, and the first Fed cut decides whether it stays.
- Active
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.
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- Launches
Four new ETFs sliced the AI buildout into correlated sleeves
DCAP, CHIP, AIBF and BUIL went effective within one weekend, cutting a single capital program into four tradable pieces.
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- The Tape
The ETF industry's next moat is quoting capacity
Canada's CAD125 billion ETF year and National Bank's research sale point to the binding constraint: complex products are being listed faster than the desks behind them can price the baskets.
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- The Tape
Active ETFs Are Winning by Being Less Active
A 37% flow share on a three-year-old shelf says the wrapper is being bought faster than the strategies inside it can prove themselves.
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- The Tape
The 2x shelf is an inventory business; churn is the product
Four years after AXS put eight 2x funds on Tesla and Nvidia, issuers file leveraged products on drone makers and bitcoin miners, close them just as fast, and stock the same trade twice in one week.
- Active
The fee page arrives after the ticker in Europe's active ETF wave
Pictet and Deutsche put active strategies in front of European intermediaries without publishing what they cost, and the shelf will have to price them anyway.
- The Tape
Aggregators are buying the teams now
LPL, Modern Wealth, and Edelman acquired production teams in a single day, testing whether roll-up multiples survive the wirehouse talent war.
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- The Tape
The wirehouse liftout turns inward
Merrill and UBS pulled $2.2 billion from Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo in a week. Wirehouse private wealth units now recruit from one another.
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- The Tape
Anthropic's debut will break the daily reset
Leveraged single-stock ETFs that list before a stable close forms will rebalance against a phantom close.
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- Active
Single-Stock Options ETFs Make Volatility the Product
A 20% payout target on Alphabet and $60 million in first-week flows for Guggenheim's GEEQ bring the active wrapper into single-stock options-income products that manage risk first.
- The Tape
The fixed-income wrapper migration is now a flow story
August's $180 billion U.S.-listed ETF haul left bond funds $41 billion shy of last year's record, with inflows bypassing plain aggregate beta for rate-hedged and floating-rate products built for 4.78 percent ten-year yields.
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- The Tape
A 3% JGB yield tests Goldman's 16-basis-point fund
Japan's 10-year yield has crossed 3% for the first time since 1996, and the instrument now under test is Goldman Sachs' 16-basis-point ultra-short active ETF.
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- The Tape
The launch machine has outrun the shelf
Record launches and record flows are setting up a consolidation wave that distribution will decide.
- The Tape
Wells Fargo builds a private bank in a day
A JPMorgan wealth chief, a $6 billion Morgan Stanley team, and a $1.8 billion BofA advisor landed the same morning—the liftout market has moved up to wirehouse production.
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- The Tape
Active fixed income's next fight is yield construction
KORP's climb toward $1 billion, SDSI's yield math, and Northern Trust's 2056 ladders show the active bond trade is now about how yield is built, not just how much it pays.
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- The Tape
Distribution is Europe's new ETF weapon
Mintos's €1 zero-fee shelf makes the app the place where European retail ETF flows are won.
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- The Tape
The AI trade is rewriting thematic ETF mandates
The AI power trade now runs through crypto, commodity, and critical-minerals ETFs.
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- The Tape
Pacer brings Cash Cows to bonds as rate-hedge ETFs stack up
Fixed-income ETFs now come with a rate view, not just a coupon.
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- The Tape
BlackRock's synthetic ETF shows core flows trump purity
The index giant's swap-based fund lands as pension money and near-$50 billion weekly inflows make the ETF wrapper the default for core portfolios.
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- The Tape
Goldman buys Neos, a $30bn options-income ETF shop
The deal hands Goldman a ready-made shelf in a fast-growing ETF niche and signals buyer appetite for specialized issuers.