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The fund draws up to 20 companies from developed markets, South Korea and Taiwan, and the launch material does not disclose its expense ratio.

The launch takes the firm's actively managed ETF lineup to 39 funds, nine of which have debuted this year.

The Autism Impact ETF, billed as the first of its kind, screens developed-market companies on clinical trial activity with a $250 million market-cap floor.

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.

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

The new Solactive benchmarks hand Hong Kong most of the index weight even when its name count matches or trails the US.

The two UCITS funds arrive a year after Schroders' first fixed income active ETF; Cindy Wang manages the CoCo fund.

The average firm's count of unique ETFs rose to 92.9 from 88.4, and first-time appearances fell from 140 in the first quarter.

The new active fund keeps its 30-to-45-stock portfolio and its five managers; the fee and the size of the converted book are absent from the account.

The new 3149.HK sells China's AI buildout, but the 30-name Hong Kong index behind it, capped at 8 per cent a constituent, is a narrower bet than the pitch implies.

Seven of the week's 21 US ETF listings sell a maturity date rather than a rate call, and a Westwood Salient power fund tests the Texas Stock Exchange's quoting bench.

TXSE has proved it can take a listing. Whether it can keep one liquid is the question none of its first four funds answers.

A concentrated bet on the toolmakers puts 52.5% in ten names and a third of the fund in one country, leaving the first-year return to the rebalance calendar as much as the theme.

Three Tidal trusts took 13 of the week's 25 listings, and the filing record shows the platform model doing the rest of the work.

An active bond fund charging 0.37% against the Agg is a wager that the index's blind spots are worth the fee.

The filing's 15% private allocation is what a daily-priced wrapper cannot cleanly value—and where the product will be judged.

The cheapest product a large issuer can build still has to win finite shelf space, and Fidelity's new US growth fund has not disclosed the fee that would decide it.

Three launches take T. Rowe's active lineup to 38 funds, and the fee ladder says which one the firm expects to carry the assets.

TKNZ's 75 basis points only work if its managers beat a basket an advisor could buy, and that is the one part of the launch T. Rowe Price has not shown.

The fund is the fourth ticker in the SystemActive line, and its pitch rests on a two-decade payout spread rather than the asset class's best relative year since 1993.

A 20-name P&C fund weighted by underwriting profitability turns a rules-based quality screen into the product and an annual June rebuild into the risk.

DCAP, CHIP, AIBF and BUIL went effective within one weekend, cutting a single capital program into four tradable pieces.

The taxable and tax-exempt twins both launch at 0.25%, setting up a test of whether short-duration demand outlasts the rate cycle that produced it.

Autocallables, prediction markets and MLCC parts on the US list, a share-class amendment instead of a new fund overseas: that mix is what a crowded shelf looks like.

The exchange-traded wrapper gets the strategy in front of Swiss intermediaries; the missing expense ratio decides whether it keeps them.

A 50 per cent agricultural-revenue floor puts the fund in fertilizers and farm machinery—not where a portfolio buffer usually lives.

The new NVIB fund turns Nvidia's price swings into twice-monthly income, betting on the volatility a 0.44% dividend can't provide.

The Tokyo-listed iFreeETF Gold plus Income turns a gold-and-Treasury allocation into a single rules-based benchmark.

The Xtrackers pair promises moderate outperformance within benchmark fences; high yield is the fund where selection can pay.

SHYL takes HYLB's Solactive index and limits its portfolio to bonds maturing in under five years; the expense ratio remains undisclosed.

The new fund tracks Tel Aviv-listed names instead of Israel-heavy multinationals, turning a country ETF into a direct local-market wager.

Wedbush's first fund is a 0.75% Nasdaq-100 lookalike; KraneShares bets on humanoids; a four-manager alliance sells deregulation.

CAMO tracks a Solactive index built to favor allied procurement budgets, with two non-US names selected for every US one.

Eight distributing-ladder ETFs anchor a launch calendar packed with active and thematic funds.

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.

Tuttle's PCPP has pulled in $21.34 million since June, with the financials sleeve contributing more to performance than bitcoin.