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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.
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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%.
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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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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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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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Schwab's planned SCIN ETF will charge 0.06%, one basis point below Vanguard's BNDX
The fund is expected to list Oct. 21 and track a dollar-hedged ICE index of non-dollar investment-grade debt, according to ETF Trends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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Capital Group filed two U.S. multi-asset income ETF registrations
Irish regulators approved four active UCITS ETFs from Capital Group the same week.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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Capital Group wins Irish approval for its first UCITS active ETFs
Four Ireland-domiciled strategies are expected to launch in Europe and Asia-Pacific in the first quarter of 2027.
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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.
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Thornburg's TMB bond ETF holds 1.4 years less duration than its index
The $260.98 million fund's 4.2-year effective duration compares with 5.6 years for the Bloomberg U.S. Universal Index.
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Cetera, LPL, Kestra, Carson and Wells Fargo lift teams in one day
Three of the five moves came from independent broker-dealers, and Cetera's $185 million Fitzgerald Financial Group liftout was the only asset figure disclosed.
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BlackRock files to add ETF share classes to five active funds holding $55 billion
The five strategies held nearly $55 billion as of Aug. 31; the filing would add an ETF share class without moving the portfolios or changing their managers.
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Meta and Mercury announce deals as nuclear generation sets a record
ETF Trends is making the buildout case for NUKZ on that record, while five AI-capex issuers borrowed more than $132 billion in the first half.
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Hyperscaler bond issuance pushes tech past banks in IG bond indexes
The five AI-capex issuers borrowed more than $132 billion in the first half, lifting tech weight in pure corporate bond ETFs by about 300 basis points.
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BlackRock model rebalance sends $2.2 billion into iShares Large Cap Core Active ETF over five days
The fund has grown from just over $100 million in March to $9 billion.
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Morgan Stanley lists four thematic funds in Europe as three firms dominate active ETF inflows
The $16.5 billion US active-ETF platform goes abroad under one Morgan Stanley brand, betting neobroker shelves can do what Eaton Vance, Parametric and Calvert labels did at home.
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Frost, LPL, Modern Wealth, Merit and Keen add advisors in late September
Two of the additions were three-advisor teams, from UBS to Frost and from Raymond James to LPL.
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The $459 billion parking trade is a bet on not deciding
A record year for fixed-income ETFs sits at the front of the curve, where the funds selling the wait charge for the only part of the trade the Fed does not control.
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Options ETFs hit $300 billion with half the room still undecided
A decade of listings built a $300 billion options category, but buyers cannot agree what they own, and the next leg turns on a shared language rather than more launches.
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The ETF shelf is rented, and issuers keep paying
Fee cuts and acquisitions are the same trade — buying access — and this week's numbers show distribution, not performance, sets the price.
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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.