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1 week ago | 
etf.com | DJ Shaw |Allan Roth |Kent Thune |Ron Day
The tax efficiency offered by exchange-traded funds has made them the structure of choice for advisors looking to convert separately managed accounts, a trend accelerating as client wealth grows, according to a new report from Cerulli Associates.
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1 week ago | 
etf.com | DJ Shaw |Ron Day |Allan Roth |Kent Thune
Bitcoin ETFs have faced persistent outflows throughout April, with investors pulling money from the products despite the recent price recovery, according to data from U.K.-based asset manager Farside Investors. The outflows have been nearly consistent across the month, with all but one day in April recording outflows from the various Bitcoin ETFs. Total April outflows reached $812.3 million as of Friday, with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) leading the exodus at $393.2 million withdrawn.
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1 month ago | 
etf.com | Paul Curcio |Kent Thune |Allan Roth |DJ Shaw
Blackrock and Vanguard led the ETF league tables on Tuesday. The table below reflects daily flows on March 12, 2025, and asset totals as of that date. BlackRock was the 400-pound ETF gorilla on Tuesday, adding just over $2 billion in assets but still lagging behind Vanguard and its $71.5 billion worth of net flows into exchange-traded funds for the year so far. State Street took the biggest hit with $1.1 billion worth of outflows Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
etf.com | Kent Thune |Paul Curcio |Allan Roth |Jeff Benjamin
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the legendary dot-com bubble’s peak. It was also the beginning of a massive bear market, an extreme test for the new exchange-traded fund, Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) and a lasting lesson for financial advisors. 1999 was the best year for performance in the dot-com bull market.
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1 month ago | 
etf.com | Allan Roth |Paul Curcio |Jeff Benjamin |Kent Thune
The last decade has not been kind to international stocks. The total return of the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) is up 12.5% annually through 2024, while the Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (VXUS) gained only 5.1% annually. But this year through March 7, U.S. stocks are down 2.2%, while international stocks have gained 8.4% using the same two funds. That’s more than a 10 percentage-point differential.
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1 month ago | 
etf.com | Sumit Roy |Paul Curcio |Lauren Gibbons |Allan Roth
Broad equity funds remain popular, with notable demand for tech, gold and short-term Treasury ETFs.U.S.-listed exchange-traded funds saw $29.5 billion in net inflows last week, bringing year-to-date additions to $162.5 billion. Investors continued to favor broad equity funds, with notable demand for tech, gold and short-term Treasury ETFs.The Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQ) topped the inflows list, pulling in $4.3 billion as tech stocks sagged amid economic uncertainty.
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2 months ago | 
etf.com | Jeff Benjamin |Paul Curcio |Allan Roth
Fidelity Investments is rolling out two new suites of model portfolios made up entirely of exchange-traded funds and designed for financial advisors. The Target Risk and Target Allocation models, which extend the model portfolio business that Fidelity first entered in 2018, blend both Fidelity and non-Fidelity ETFs in portfolios of about a dozen ETFs each, the Boston-based company said in a statement.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
etf.com | DJ Shaw |Paul Curcio |Lauren Gibbons |Allan Roth
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO) topped all equity ETF inflows with $4.7 billion for the week of Jan. 20, while the world's largest ETF, the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), landed at the bottom with $7.3 billion in outflows, according to data from etf.com's Pulse Tool. The latest weekly flows highlight an ongoing shift in investor preference between the two largest ETFs in the market, with VOO holding nearly $618 billion in assets compared to SPY's $635 billion, etf.com data show.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
etf.com | Jeff Benjamin |Paul Curcio |DJ Shaw |Allan Roth
Horizon Investments, a diversified asset management and financial advisory services platform, debuted two exchange-traded funds this week that will join its mutual fund lineup. The Charlotte, North Carolina-based company, which manages nine of its own mutual funds and subadvises three ETFs for First Trust, rolled out two ETFs geared toward financial advisors in Horizon’s theme of goals-based investing models.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
etf.com | Paul Curcio |DJ Shaw |Lauren Gibbons |Allan Roth
In this episode of Exchange Traded Fridays, etf.com’s editorial team discusses what went down in the ETF world during President Trump’s first week in the White House. From a $500 billion AI announcement to the new SEC crypto task force to the scrapping of the $7,500 electric vehicle mandate, Trump was the driving force for many exchange-traded funds. Additionally, the team talks about the continued migration of legacy mutual fund companies into the ETF industry.
