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COPY's insider-buying filter is a value edge

The Tweedy, Browne active ETF screens for insider purchases and buybacks; its 20.30% YTD gain is a strong start, but the screen is unproven over a full cycle.

XLKI's 19.7% yield comes with an upside cap

State Street's premium income tech ETF cushioned the AI selloff with a 19.7% payout, but its return since inception trails XLK by 11.9% — the honest cost of converting volatility into cash.

Guggenheim expands active income suite with two ETFs

The covered-call equity fund and the CLO fund land at 35 basis points, widening Guggenheim's post-GISC platform into two more income sleeves.

VictoryShares' FCF pair crosses $10B and $1B

Two free-cash-flow ETFs crossed the thresholds on the same day, suggesting advisors are buying the screen, not the style box.

T. Rowe Price Looks Beyond Chips for AI's Next Winners

Portfolio managers see the next AI beneficiaries in healthcare, robotics, financials, and industrials—a message built for the firm's active ETFs.

Gold's 14% month hands WisdomTree an active-ETF moment

GDE is up nearly 15% alongside bullion, but the sponsored case leans on forecasts and the fund's equity sleeve has to prove itself once the metal stops moving.

The $1.23 trillion record is narrower than it looks

The record haul through July belongs mostly to equities and three firms, while active funds surge and commodities sit in the red.

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.

Distribution is the new ETF product in Europe

Mintos's €1, zero-fee ETF shelf points to where the next European growth will be won — in the app.

Job openings are the robotics trade's leading indicator

A 94% correlation between factory job openings and robot installations a year later makes U.S. automation demand forecastable and sets physical-AI exposure apart from the slower humanoid story.

Volatility, not fees, drives the investor gap

Morningstar's Mind the Gap data shows investor shortfalls concentrate where volatility runs highest, and cheap funds cannot fix behavior.

The AI trade is rewriting thematic ETF mandates

The AI power trade now runs through crypto, commodity, and critical-minerals ETFs.

Tariff confusion pushed 200,000 tons of copper into U.S. ports in July

Copper's summer rally reflects tariff timing as well as AI demand. Sprott's COPP holds both the metal and the miners.

State Street adds proxy voting choice to S&P 500 UCITS ETF

Proxy voting choice comes to SPYL, State Street's S&P 500 UCITS ETF.

ChinaAMC lists Asia's first spot Solana ETF on HKEX

The new Solana fund expands Hong Kong's virtual asset ETF lineup beyond bitcoin and ether.

KORP, American Century's active corporate bond ETF, nears $1 billion

The American Century fund has stacked up nearly $200 million in six months, a sign that investors will pay 29 basis points for active credit management.

ALPS pitches SDOG as the value gap persists after July

The equal-weight dividend fund's backers make their case on a 19.5-turn valuation spread that July's rotation didn't close.

Global X lists a NYSE 100 UCITS ETF on London and Xetra

An exclusive ICE license backs a UCITS fund holding 100 US-listed tech and tech-enabled growth companies.

Vanguard files three UCITS ETFs to fill out its global equity range

The new funds fill gaps in Vanguard's low-cost global equity range and will list on five European exchanges.

WGMI's 80% mandate now runs from bitcoin miners to AI power

The fund's new investment policy formalizes the miners' pivot to data center hosting — and changes what investors own.

Goldman sees a $2 trillion ETF year, active money leading

Goldman Sachs expects $2 trillion in 2026 U.S. ETF inflows, with active strategies and model portfolios supplying much of the new money.

IAUI's play: gold income without bonds as 30-year yields hit 19-year high

ETF Trends pitches the gold-income fund as a way to collect income without bonds while 30-year Treasury yields sit at a 19-year high, and Neos shareholders weigh Goldman's acquisition.

BMO and REX Shares launch 3x country leverage in six ETNs

Six long and short notes tracking Brazil, Japan, and Taiwan begin trading Thursday, each aiming for three times a VettaFi index's daily move.

Neos shareholder vote decides Goldman's $2.25 billion ETF deal

Goldman's second ETF acquisition of the year would buy four-year-old Neos for up to $2.25 billion, pending a proxy vote.

ETF market splits into two camps over fees

A midyear FactSet report finds a 0.03% index-fund core and a growing minority paying up for active bond managers.

Bond ETFs pull in $13.2B as ballast beats curve risk

Weekly fixed-income flows concentrated in high-quality, short-duration strategies, leaving riskier credit on the sidelines.

The case for international value ETFs is missing its numbers

A content-hub article pitches insider-led international value, with ICPY up 12.87%. It never proves the neglect.

VanEck lists Europe's first semiconductor ETF across four exchanges

The $4bn US chip strategy reaches London, Frankfurt and Milan in a UCITS wrapper, with a 10% cap that can drift between rebalances.

State Street says Trump Accounts default to SPYM

The 0.02% S&P 500 fund gets the automatic core slot in an account program whose structure remains undisclosed.

Defense Department lends $400 million to Sunrise Energy Metals

The conditional loan puts federal money behind an REXC holding as Washington's $3 billion critical-minerals push takes shape.

Trading Central's quantamental ratings power a new UCITS ETF

The new fund packages a five-factor stock-rating framework into a PEA-eligible, physically replicated UCITS structure.

CSHI's case grows as 30-year yield hits 5.31%

A T-bill ETF with an options overlay gives bond investors a place to hide when long-term rates break out.

LAIQON lists first AI-driven active ETF on Deutsche Börse

The Hamburg manager's debut UCITS fund pairs an AI stock picker with a human portfolio team.

Bitwise's Trendwise ETFs swap long-only crypto for rotation

Three Bitwise futures funds now rotate between crypto and Treasuries on a moving-average rule, chasing better risk-adjusted returns.

TTEQ nearly doubles assets as investors pour in $189 million

Flows, not market gains, drove TTEQ to $429 million as investors paid up for active tech.

RAFI's $200 billion anti-cap-weight business lands at TMX

Rob Arnott's fundamental indexing now sits behind TMX VettaFi's push for $1 trillion in index assets.

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.

Guggenheim's GISC brings floating-rate structured credit to ETF allocators

ETF Trends argues GISC's 5.18% SEC yield and floating-rate book give fixed-income allocators a way to hold ground while the Fed decides.

Sprott argues uranium supplies are about to tighten

A new contracting cycle in Europe and the US could tighten uranium supplies just as demand accelerates, supporting prices and the case for URNM.

T. Rowe Price's TMED makes the case for active sector ETFs

A 44-basis-point fee and a bottom-up, global mandate are beating the S&P health-care benchmark by wide margins.

Ether takes the lead as crypto ETPs break a long outflow streak

July's $515.9 million in net inflows ended the streak and lifted assets to $117.5 billion, though price gains did most of the work.

VanEck ranks its own income ETFs by yield

A fund-family product list is more brochure than data, even when the yield math is standard.

WisdomTree crosses $50 billion as currency-hedged funds lead record inflows

The independent ETF issuer reached the mark in less than a decade, powered by $9.7 billion of record inflows this year.

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.

Three small-cap ETFs surface as Russell 2000 sets record

A biotech index, a cash-flow screen and a value tilt offer different ways to ride the small-cap benchmark's new high.

Northern Trust folds FlexShares ETFs into parent brand

All 39 funds now trade as Northern Trust ETFs, ending the two-brand lineup.

July’s Canadian ETF launches lean into income

Seven of the 16 funds carry income in their names; the rest are mostly equity.

A rate-hedged junk ETF makes the quality case

WisdomTree's HYZD runs a 0.22-year duration hedge over a BB-heavy book. Its sponsor says plain high-yield beta no longer cuts it.

Broadcom's bear market turns single-stock ETFs into a timing problem

The AI chip maker is 20.6% below its 52-week high; Direxion's inverse fund and its 2x bull fund are wagers on which catalyst runs out first.

UK ETF ownership nears one in five as investment trusts fall to 9%

Boring Money's latest report finds UK retail investors leaving trusts for cheaper, simpler ETFs.

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