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A Rare Peek under the Hood of Vanguard
“The House That Jack Bogle Built” is alive and well in sleepy Malvern, Pennsylvania. So far this year, the asset management firm that pioneered low-cost investing—so much so that “beta” is almost fre…
Published on 9 months, 1 week ago
Get Ready for the Hottest Hot Sauce
One of the year’s hottest investments? Bitcoin, which has surged on exchange-traded fund adoption as well as the return of the “Trump trade.” One way to go especially big on that bet is two new lever…
Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Why These ETFs Died During a Bull Market
As with humans, death is a part of life in the exchange-traded fund industry. There have been about 150 closures this year, which may be a bit surprising given how almost everything is up in the mark…
Published on 10 months ago
The Rise of the Quick-Buck ETF
Derivatives-enhanced exchange-traded funds have become a hit with retail investors. There’s been more than 160 such launches so far this year, with monikers such as “laddered buffer” and “covered cal…
Published on 10 months, 2 weeks ago
The Apollo ETF Landing
A new competition has begun to see who can successfully solve an investing paradox: how to package illiquid, private assets into liquid, public exchange-traded funds. State Street, in partnership wit…
Published on 11 months ago
Finally an ETF for Rejects
For every stock that enters an index like the S&P 500 or Russell 1000, another must exit. One might assume these “deletions” are a sorrowful bunch whose demotion to the B-team means they’re no longer…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
Return Stacking
The idea of using leverage to layer one investment return, say equities, on top of another, say a managed futures strategy, is something institutional investors have been doing for decades under the …
Published on 11 months, 4 weeks ago
Should I Just 'VTI and Chill'? Your ETF Questions Answered
While exchange-traded funds have become increasingly popular and people are more familiar with them, there are still aspects of ETFs that—for some—remain shrouded in mystery. So we recently asked our…
Published on 1 year ago
Ether ETFs Are Looking for a Bitcoin Style Love
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds, which were finally introduced earlier this year after intense regulatory scrutiny, have already become some of the most successful ETF launches ever. For months it seem…
Published on 1 year ago
Yes, ETFs Can Outperform Without Nvidia—But It's Not Easy
Nvidia's ascent into one of the world's biggest companies was as fast as it was dramatic. The company's startling rise has sparked new ETFs to launch and propelled others to record heights. Nvidia's …
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago