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The Flow

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.
The Flow

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.
The Flow

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.
The Active Letter

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.

Movement coverage returns with the next weekday edition.

The Wire
Mar 31Onur Erzan — AllianceBernstein L.P. → AllianceBernstein L.P.
Mar 31Onur Erzan — AllianceBernstein → AllianceBernstein
Mar 30Seth Bernstein — AllianceBernstein L.P. → AllianceBernstein L.P.
Jan 30Jase Auby

Jensen launches JQTY, a U.S. quality index ETF at 25 basis points

The fund tracks the 100 largest U.S. stocks with return on equity of at least 15% in each of the past ten fiscal years.

Invesco launches QQI, extending its QQQ suite beyond U.S. equities

The new fund tracks the Nasdaq International Innovators 100 Index, charges 0.29%, and holds TSMC at 10.71%.

ChinaAMC lists HK-US cash-flow ETF; HALO fund follows next day

The new Solactive benchmarks hand Hong Kong most of the index weight even when its name count matches or trails the US.
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Micron earnings loom over iShares VLUE's 23.5% Micron position

ETF Trends ranks two 2x single-stock funds and iShares VLUE as the largest ETF exposures to Micron, which reports Wednesday.

FTSE Russell launches AI-driven thematic index series with MarketPsych

MarketPsych's AI classifies companies into five theme pillars; FTSE Russell's rules then decide the portfolio's weighting, caps and turnover.

T. Rowe Price counts AI as nearly 60% of the Russell 1000 Growth Index

Timothy Murray's ChatGPT and FactSet review finds hyperscalers and AI infrastructure concentrated in large-cap growth, with the lightest exposure in U.S. small-caps and EAFE value.
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