ETFs archive
Every ETFs story, newest first. 439 stories
5 stories
- The Tape
State Street's summer inflows favor cheap stocks and a gold hedge
The top SPDR funds this year buy the S&P 500 at 0.02% and bullion up 13.6% in four weeks, a pairing with little faith in the surroundings.
- Launches
Defiance's ISRL goes local where Israel ETFs go global
The new fund tracks Tel Aviv-listed names instead of Israel-heavy multinationals, turning a country ETF into a direct local-market wager.
- Passive & Indexing
GFLW rebalance adds Caterpillar, Dell and Royalty Pharma
The free-cash-flow ETF's June reconstitution shows what the screen buys, what it cuts, and why the rules do the managing.
- Passive & Indexing
CWEB: a daily trade on China's AI capex cycle
The 2x daily objective sits over a concentrated index of Chinese platforms paying for AI infrastructure — a powerful trade for days, a poor position for years.
- The Tape
European ETF flows and performance split for second week
A €8.65 billion week masks a second straight divergence between where the money went and what performed.
6 stories
- Launches
Thematic ETF launches price brand and politics at a premium
Wedbush's first fund is a 0.75% Nasdaq-100 lookalike; KraneShares bets on humanoids; a four-manager alliance sells deregulation.
- Passive & Indexing
VFINX at 50: the index fund that changed everything
An $11.3 million experiment in 1976 became the default way trillions are now invested.
- Passive & Indexing
Sector Equal Weight Is the Smarter Concentration Play
A sector-level equal-weight fund like EQL lets advisors trim the S&P 500's concentration without the tax bill of a full reconstruction.
- Issuers
Victory's free-cash-flow suite wins because the distribution loop matches the screen
Three funds built on one free-cash-flow screen have gathered more than $12 billion, and the reason is a distribution loop that turns a licensing fee into a full sales channel.
- Active
WTIP's TIPS outperformance is a gold trade
The actively managed fund has returned nearly 30% since June, with commodities doing the work — and the comparison comes from WisdomTree's paid sponsorship.
- The Tape
RIAs rebuilt ETF lineups on momentum, not structure
The average RIA now holds 92.9 ETFs, but Q2's net additions went to tech, semiconductors, and a SpaceX-linked crossover fund.
12 stories
- The Tape
The 89% Number That Makes Cyber ETFs a Core Hold
CrowdStrike and Okta beat earnings, but the attack-data figure is what justifies owning HACK for the long run.
- Issuers
FCLD's 39bp fee buys a revenue screen with teeth
The cloud fund's 36.4% year is powered by a 50%-revenue rule that keeps the trade outside the megacaps.
- The Tape
The launch machine has outrun the shelf
Record launches and record flows are setting up a consolidation wave that distribution will decide.
- Issuers
GEEQ's fast start sells equity income as risk control
Guggenheim's covered-call ETF pulled in roughly $60 million in a week, evidence that the category's pitch is volatility management as much as income.
- Issuers
AMJB's flat 5.3% coupon is the product's contract
The 5.3% payout with no quarter-over-quarter pop is the ETN wrapper doing its job, and the next coupon will test whether MLP cash flows hold.
- Passive & Indexing
Critical materials ETFs are the AI-power trade in a wrapper
Sprott's SETM sells diversification, but the demand story is the energy grid.
- The Tape
Gold's rebound is a hedge, not a breakout
The 15% recovery since June will pull flows into gold-backed ETFs, but the metal's January peak still hangs over the trade.
- Active
OPPJ's tech weight is the real yen-intervention hedge
The fund's modest gain through the intervention scare points to AI and semiconductor volume, not currency direction, as the durable driver.
- 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.
- The Tape
ETF flows near $1.4T, but the shelf is already full
August's $150 billion inflow puts last year's all-time mark within a matter of weeks.
- Launches
Evolve defense ETF tilts 75% to non-US names
CAMO tracks a Solactive index built to favor allied procurement budgets, with two non-US names selected for every US one.
- Launches
Northern Trust's ladder push leads a two-dozen-fund week
Eight distributing-ladder ETFs anchor a launch calendar packed with active and thematic funds.
10 stories
- Launches
MNGU brings 3x daily swings to a ten-name AI basket
BMO and REX Shares' new MicroSectors ETN ties 3x daily leverage to an equal-weight basket of ten AI names, with a reset that makes the 2046 maturity a short-horizon tool.
- Passive & Indexing
RSP's $100B crossing makes equal weight a core allocation
The Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF hit $100 billion, a flows story about concentration risk more than performance.
- Launches
Permanent portfolio ETF nears $25M as insurance does the work
Tuttle's PCPP has pulled in $21.34 million since June, with the financials sleeve contributing more to performance than bitcoin.
- Active
QINT's 24.7% run argues for quality-screened international exposure
A 34-basis-point ex-U.S. fund is beating its category, with a growth/value switch that echoes the active wrapper migration.
- The Tape
Reshoring ETFs look like a hedge, not a growth trade
MADE and BATT are both up on tariff math, but their different mandates split the trade into two distinct bets.
- 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.
- The Tape
Cerulli sees ETF growth as a distribution story
Latin America and U.S. offshore investors are turning to global ETFs before the distribution plumbing catches up
- The Tape
Dividend yield is back in the fight for allocations
A RiverFront primer separates earnings yield, dividend yield, and the 10-year, and shows why the next income battle will be won on definitions.
- The Tape
Nvidia's blowout keeps AI ETFs in the running
The record quarter validated the AI buildout; the real question is which ETF wrapper should own it.
- The Tape
Crypto ETF flows are the durability test for Bitcoin's bounce
Treasury buybacks and short covering ignited the rally; the next few weeks of ETF flow reports will show whether the bid is durable.
6 stories
- The Tape
CCNR's 27.71% return is a pitch for the wrapper, not the cycle
Fresh inflows show investors are paying for a manager's ability to rotate inside a fragmented commodity market.
- Active
XLEI's 20% yield is a war premium with a cap
State Street's energy covered-call fund pays for its distribution by giving away upside, the same trade that left its tech sibling trailing its benchmark.
- Passive & Indexing
The Treasury twist gives duration ETFs a tailwind
A supply-timing move, not a deficit fix, steers the long-end trade toward the wrapper.
- Passive & Indexing
Robot Demand's Next Wave Is Everywhere but Autos
Non-auto sectors now drive robot adoption, and thematic ETFs are the hook for an automation cycle that may only be starting.
- Launches
Northern Trust extends its distributing ladder suite to 2056
Eight new TIPS and muni funds pay principal annually and liquidate at maturity, testing the case for a bond ladder with a stop date.
- Issuers
Buy, don't build: the ETF landgrab's clearest answer
Record issuer counts and income-driven flows push asset managers toward M&A; the next consolidation wave likely turns on distribution.
1 story
- Issuers
Private credit's ETF wrapper runs on equity swaps
The PCR ETF delivers private-credit yield through listed BDC and closed-end fund holdings plus a long/short equity swap hedge, but in a downturn the derivatives layer, not the loan book, will set its daily price.