Financial News on ETFs

An increasingly popular way to trade in financial markets. Stock buys/sells by ETFs, driven only by inflows/outflows, are so impactful as to render much of fundamental analysis to be useless. Wikipedia: ETFs

• A guide to cushioning your portfolio against the bursting of the AI bubble. Equal-weighted funds, healthcare and gold are among the ways that financial advisers suggest investors can try to shield their portfolios from another bubble bursting.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 21 October 2025

• Colleges and universities in the USA would collectively be $468 billion richer, if 20 years ago they had fired their 'fundamentals' investment managers and just bought indexed ETFs
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 20 October 2025

• Silver prices roar higher as a short squeeze rocks the London silver market
  - Bloomberg, 13 October 2025

• Amid the unprecedented shortage in the physical silver market, a number of asset managers in Bharat have halted all new investments into silver ETFs that have driven silver prices above global levels
  - Zero Hedge, 13 October 2025

• Broken markets: silver volatility goes vertical as pure panic kicks in
  - Zero Hedge, 13 October 2025

• $26 billion flows into gold ETFs
  - Zero Hedge, 13 October 2025

• Congress thinks [sells its thoughts] that hiding investment fund fees is good for people. Even if fund expenses seem to disappear, they are still the biggest drag on your returns.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 October 2025

• Trump's taxes/tariffs be damned. These funds based in Latin America are buys. iShares MSCI Brazil (EWZ), the biggest, is up 36% this year, up 8% annually in the last ten years. iShares MSCI Mexico (EWW) is second biggest will similar returns.
  - Barron's, 11 October 2025

• T.Rowe Price Group, BlackRock, Invesco: their ETF funds may not beat the market. But their stocks just might.
  - Barron's, 04 October 2025

• Investors have invested more than $900 billion in ETFs in 2025
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 01 October 2025

• Gambling fever is getting worse across the (bubbled) stock market. Assets in leveraged equity ETFs in the US are nearing their peaks as speculation in the market intensifies.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 September 2025

• Money is flowing into USA financial stocks. Financials is the USA equity sector seeing the most inflows, with anticipated deregulation and expectations of steeper yield curve likely drivers.
  - Zero Hedge, 24 September 2025

• "Fooling people into thinking that they are getting income": dividend ETFs become Wall Street's latest grift. Dividend ETFs now manage $750 billion, with the riskiest, highest-yielding products quadrupling in size to $160 billion in just three years. Critics also warn about fees and taxes, especially since many of these payouts are taxed as ordinary income.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 September 2025

• Gold soars to fresh record as inflows into gold ETFs hit 3 year high. "There was not one meeting where someone was willing to short this market. In most meetings, the level of investment has not been reached and many continue to look for a pullback for entry. The majority are looking for $4000."
  - Zero Hedge, 22 September 2025

• Your mutual fund is becoming an ETF. What to expect. Since 2021, 145 mutual funds have converted to ETFs. There are trade-offs.
  - Barron's, 20 September 2025

• New Grayscale ETF holds multiple cryptocurrencies together, combining bitcoin, Solana and others
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 September 2025

• Spot bitcoin ETFs see strong demand; cryptocurrency market tops $4 trillion as Gen-A shuns gold. Still cryptocurrencies are less of a bubble than AI.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 September 2025

• BlackRock is reportedly exploring tokenized ETFs after Bitcoin fund success, as Wall Street giants tout tokenization as a game-changer for finance. As there is no trust issue with current trading of ETFs, there is no honest need for tokenizations of ETFs.
  - CoinTelegraph, 11 September 2025

• Vanguard, the leading offeror of passive index funds, will soon have its first actively managed stock exchange-traded funds, managed by Wellington Management.
  - Barron's, 06 September 2025

• Ether exchange reserves fall to 3-year-low as ETFs, corporate treasuries soak up supply. Ether supply on centralized exchanges has plunged around 38% since 2022, as billions flow into spot ETFs and corporate treasuries ramp up their ETH holdings.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 September 2025

• Yale's trendsetting private-equity strategy is getting harder to remain profitable enough. Universities and other institutions have built up large private-equity holdings, but they are now lagging behind the S&P 500 and the holdings are not easy to shed.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2025

• Ether ETFs capture 10-times more inflows than bitcoin in the last 5 days. "Ether is very much what I call the Wall Street token."
  - Zero Hedge, 28 August 2025

• Ethereum nears record high amid massive ETF inflows; Standard Chartered predicts a price of $25,000.
  - Zero Hedge (locked), 13 August 2025

• Ether ETFs experience a record $1 billion of inflows as ETH flashes bull signals. Spot Ether ETFs had their biggest net inflow day ever on Monday, outpacing their Bitcoin counterparts amid ETH's recent rally.
  - Zero Hedge, 12 August 2025

• Interval funds charge big fees. Vanguard is looking to challenge that. The low-cost fund manager's entry into the fray could help retail investors gain access to illiquid assets without getting gouged.
  - Barron's, 09 August 2025

• A major historical four-year cycle in bitcoin that dictates its price might be breaking
  - Comcast's CNBC, 08 August 2025

• The rewards - and risks - of 'target income' funds
  - Barron's, 02 August 2025

• Are passive index funds ruining the values of small-cap investing? Asset flows from active funds into passive index funds have created so-called megafirms, a phenomenon that not only distorts the largest companies' valuations but drives the market higher overall. The reason is that active managers tend to buy smaller stocks, looking for bargains, while S&P 500 index funds are market-cap-weighted, rewarding the largest stocks with the most assets. This shift punishes the smallest stocks, which receive the fewest assets and underperform.
  - Barron's, 26 July 2025

• Ether ETF inflows outpace bitcoin for 6 straight days as global liquidity soars
  - Zero Hedge, 25 July 2025

• Spot ether ETFs attract $533 million, and extend their 13-day inflow streak to over $4 billion
  - Zero Hedge, 23 July 2025

• XRP declines 8% as the token encounters resistance at a price of $3, ahead of a ProShares launch of an XRP ETF
  - Coindesk, 14 July 2025

• Wall Street is using its Bitcoin playbook to take a big risk on Ethereum
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 11 July 2025

• Bitcoin rises to an all-time over $118,000, as financial institutions invest heavily in cryptocurrency ETFs
  - Comcast's CNBC, 11 July 2025

• Bitcoin rises to an all-time over $118,000, as financial institutions invest heavily in cryptocurrency ETFs
  - Zero Hedge, 11 July 2025

• Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are becoming far more concentrated, amplifying risks
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 July 2025

• -Physically backed gold exchange-traded funds recorded their largest semi-annual inflow since the first half of 2020 from January to June, according to data from the World Gold Council.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 08 July 2025

• Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management registers new 'buffer' ETFs to limit losses in her flagship funds, using options to limit losses while giving up some gains.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 07 July 2025

• ETFs are taking over all of the investment world. 700 new ETFs were launched in 2024. Here is how to survive.
  - Barron's, 05 July 2025

• Leveraged ETFs had some of the best returns in the second quarter of 2025
  - Barron's, 05 July 2025

• Publicly traded companies bought more bitcoin than bitcoin ETFs did for the third quarter in a row. [KXnote: can't innovate? Gamble on cryptocurrencies.]
  - Comcast's CNBC, 01 July 2025

• Publicly traded companies bought more bitcoin than bitcoin ETFs did for the third quarter in a row. [KXnote: can't innovate? Gamble on cryptocurrencies.]
  - Zero Hedge, 01 July 2025

• ETFS are booming. Mutual funds want in on the action. Asset managers are eagerly awaiting an SEC decision that would allow mutual funds to also trade as ETFs - potentially changing how trillions of dollars are invested.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 30 June 2025

• Passive investing is fueling the rise of mega-firms. That could affect your portfolio in unexpected ways. The surge in passive investing does not just mirror the market - it shapes it, creating new risks and opportunities.
  - MorningStar, 26 June 2025

• Cheap foreign small-cap stocks offer big gains in a trade war. It pays to have an active manager to navigate this sector. Vanguard's indexed ETF holds 4,794 stocks. Many are illiquid or poorly run, and most have little or even no coverage by Wall Street analysts.
  - Barron's, 21 June 2025

• Trump's media company, Truth Social, files an S-1 registration for a dual bitcoin and ether ETF, to further exploit the office of the Presidency for personal gain
  - Zero Hedge, 16 June 2025

• Investors are buying lots of ETFs holding bonds issued in Zhōngguó, as deflation persists. Investors in Zhōngguó are flocking to ETFs that hold bonds, shifting away from equity ETFs as passive bets on fixed-income - and a slowing economy - become increasingly popular.
  - Zero Hedge, 15 June 2025

• Two investment managers investment big on uranium - Sprott Asset Management CEO John Ciampaglia (which offers two uranium ETFs) and VanEck CEO Jan van Eck (which has one nuclear/uranium ETF)
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 June 2025

• These are the hottest bond ETFs this year - and for good reason with many offering 4% yields. Treasury-bill ETFs are rapidly gaining in popularity and challenging money-market funds and bank deposits as a place for retail investors to park cash.
  - Barron's, 14 June 2025

• Staked Ethereum hits all-time high as ETH ETF inflows surge
  - Zero Hedge, 10 June 2025

• Bond ETFs to buy in a world of Trump-induced volatility
  - Barron's, 07 June 2025

• Bridgewater's new "All Weather" ETF: will its hedge fund approach work in this market? The asset-allocation fund, which holds stocks, bonds, gold, and commodities, is designed to deliver positive performance in different economic and market environments.
  - Barron's, 07 June 2025

• ETFs for gold miners are losing their 'shine' following a strong rally year-to-date in 2025
  - Bloomberg, 06 June 2025

• The price of gold halls as strong USA jobs data clouds the outlook for interest rate reductions
  - Thomson's Reuters, 05 June 2025

• A trader in bitcoin uses options to bet on a 28% surge in BlackRock's Spot BTC ETF by the end of June.
  - CoinDesk, 04 June 2025

• Investment funds promising shelter from wild swings are booming. But do they deliver? Investors have poured $56 billion into so-called equity hedged funds and ETFs. But the funds always don't deliver on their promises.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 June 2025

• A potentially watershed effort to launch US crypto exchange-traded funds that offer staking rewards is throwing up regulatory doubts, even after the funds said they received initial SEC registration approval. Staking rewards allow investors to earn rewards by pledging tokens to help operate the blockchain.
  - Bloomberg, 31 May 2025

• If you like dividend stocks, you might love these ETFs: FDVV (3.2%), ONEY (3.4%), SCHD (3.4%)
  - Barron's, 31 May 2025

• Investors invest a huge amount of money in ETFs, at a record rate, despite turmoil in the financial markets. Exchange-traded funds in the USA have collected some $437 billion in new assets so far this year.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 27 May 2025

• Believe it or not, gold is still out of favor, despites its rise in price. Gold ETFs' share of the ETF assets has been around 2% for the last ten years.
  - John Rubino's Substack, 26 May 2025

• High yield, low volatility ETFs that use covered call options strategies: Vanguard VIG, and JPMorgan's JEPI and JEPQ
  - Barron's, 23 May 2025

• The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) pulled in $636.9 million Friday, increasing its total assets under management to $48.7 billion amid easing USA-Zhōngguó tensions.
  - ETF.com, 19 May 2025

• Environmental investment funds in Europe are holding more than $33 billion of investments in in major oil and natural gas companies, despite fossil fuels being the root cause of the climate crisis. Some of these investment funds used dishonest branding such as Sustainable Global Stars and Europe Climate Pathway.
  - The Guardian, 18 May 2025

• How Goldman Sachs is trading its "oil lower-for-longer" prediction
  - Zero Hedge, 16 May 2025

• There has been a significant increase in flows of money into ETFs for uranium and nuclear companies
  - Zero Hedge, 08 May 2025

• Bitcoin ETF inflows top Gold ETF inflows year-to-date
  - Zero Hedge, 07 May 2025

• As latecomers to the rise in gold prices, investors in the USA might drive gold to new extreme highs. A year after Zhōngguó and other mainly Asia-based retail investors in ETFs ramped up their gold purchases, buying of US gold ETFs has picked up too.
  - Zero Hedge, 28 April 2025

• Bitcoin devotees invested $3 billion into ETFs amid a surge in cryptocurrencies
  - Bloomberg, 28 April 2025

• Bitcoin devotees invested $3 billion into ETFs amid a surge in cryptocurrencies
  - Bloomberg, 28 April 2025

• Buffered ETFs protect against market drops. They are selling like hotcakes. These exchange-traded funds offer downside protection, but you must give up a lot of upside in return.
  - Barron's, 25 April 2025

• Many 'international' funds are mostly USA funds. The market-capitalization-weighted MSCI All Country World Index covers 85% of global large- and mid-cap equities, but 65% of its holdings are in the USA.
  - Barron's, 25 April 2025

• Ob bitcoin resilience amid classical 60/40 portfolio panic. The market is likely re-entering the basis trade (of being long spot/ETF vs short the futures/NDF) as the large $900m inflows into the US spot bitcoin ETFs re-emerge.
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2025

• Bitcoin extends gains as the Federal Reserve withdraws Biden-era guidance on bank's cryptocurrency dealings
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2025

• The iShares Bitcoin Trust, offered by BlackRock, will be the world's biggest ETF in a decade, predicts Michael Saylor
  - CoinDesk, 25 April 2025

• The world's first-ever ETF based on catastrophe bonds has failed to get the seed capital it expected after launching on the eve of the Trump's tax/tariff trade war. The Brookmont Catastrophic Bond ETF is suffering from market turmoil.
  - Bloomberg, 25 April 2025

• Gold prices decline today due to a staggering $1.3 billion outflow from the GLD ETF, the biggest outflow since 2011
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2025

• Gold prices plunge in the biggest one-day drop in years. Is the record rally over? Easing anxieties over Trump's tax/tariff policies and the Fed Chair Powell's fate spark s worst daily decline since 2021.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 23 April 2025

• A sudden massive inflow of funds into cryptocurrency ETFs push the valuation of bitcoin above the valuation of Google, as the 5th largest asset in the world
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2025

• The secret fees that sponsors of $9.7 trillion of passive ETFs pay to the index companies such as Standard & Poors to replicate their indexes in the ETFs. Few fund providers volunteer the information in their annual accounting statements.
  - Morningstar, 22 April 2025

• The problem with active bond ETFs - many of them trade at a premium that effectively makes them much pricier than they first appear
  - Barron's, 12 April 2025

• Leveraged ETFs have to buy $30 billion worth of stocks by day-end, as stock prices explode higher as Trump "pauses" higher reciprocal tariffs (now just 10%) for 90 days on every nation (except Zhōngguó)
  - Bloomberg, 09 April 2025

• The volume of trading of ETFs his an all-time high, as AUM tumble below $10 trillion. Volumes reached record levels on Friday, as over half a trillion notional traded across the ETF complex, accounting for 37% of the overall tape.
  - Zero Hedge, 07 April 2025

• Actively managed ETFs rise over $1 trillion in assets, and why uncertainties due to Trump's taxes/tariffs could cause further increases in their assets
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 April 2025

• Fidelity, a $15 trillion asset manager, has joined the USA spot Solana [SOL] exchange-traded funds (ETF) race. On the 25th of March, the firm filed a 19b-4 form with the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), via Cboe BZX exchange for a spot SOL ETF.
  - AMB Crypto, 26 March 2025

• Sales of Tesla vehicles in the EU plunge 40% year-to-year in February, but ARK's Cathie Woods remains bullish
  - Zero Hedge, 25 March 2025

• Sales of Tesla vehicles in the EU plunge 40% year-to-year in February, but ARK's Cathie Woods remains bullish
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 25 March 2025

• Front-running target-date funds for fun and profit. Monthly or quarterly, target-date funds rebalance their portfolios, selling large groups of stocks or bonds. Wall Street traders are aware of these intervals and thresholds, which is why they are able to front-run the rebalancing transactions of target-date funds and other funds that regularly rebalance, such as many pension funds.
  - Barron's, 24 March 2025

• Stablecoins at an all-time high in price, signaling liquidity build-up and potential for a market rally. Strong stablecoin inflows into exchanges suggest investors are positioning for a potential market re-engagement.
  - AMB Crypto, 23 March 2025

• Avoid managed futures ETFs. Managed futures are a strategy more than an asset class. What we can confidently say is that returns for managed futures bear little resemblance to stock and bond returns. That makes them mathematically useful for diversification. But then, chicken poop bingo provides low return correlation to stocks and bonds, too. I do not recommend it for long-term wealth building.
  - Barron's, 22 March 2025

• Billions of dollars flowed into new leveraged ETFs in 2024. Now the ETFs are in free fall. Wall Street's newest form of gambling, the leveraged single-stock ETF, is seeing the prices of these ETFs plunging as the Nasdaq drops 10%.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 20 March 2025

• 12 bitcoin ETFs in the USA lose $5.5 billion in the longest run of outflows since launched in January 2024
  - Bloomberg, 17 March 2025

• Trump's tax/tariff wars is not only increasing prices for consumers in the USA and sending down the stock market in the USA, investors are selling some of their investments in stocks/ETFs in the USA, and buying stocks/ETFs in Europe. The risks of fiscal austerity and recession in the US is provoking capital to leave that market and travel eastwards to Europe, where massive fiscal expansion is on the cards.
  - Zero Hedge, 13 March 2025

• Active managers keep lagging the market: why it is so difficult to beat the stock market indexes
  - Comcast's CNBC, 07 March 2025

• Goldman Sachs rolls out suite of downside protection ETFs as market volatility picks up
  - Comcast's CNBC, 04 March 2025

• New investors pumped up the price of bitcoin ETFs. Now some are exiting, as cryptocurrency prices plunge.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 8 February 2025

• As bitcoin fades, gold sees huge ETF inflows, and silver sentiment soars
  - Zero Hedge, 25 February 2025

• Prices of gold have surged. Why prices of stocks of gold mining companies are a better investment.
  - Barron's, 15 February 2025

• Vanguard makes biggest cuts to fund fees in its history. Vanguard's sweeping expense ratio cuts for dozens of funds may pressure other asset managers to lower their costs too.
  - Barron's, 08 February 2025

• BlackRock to launch bitcoin ETP in Europe
  - Zero Hedge, 06 February 2025

• New ETFs bet investors are way too careful -- even when buying bitcoin. ETFs that cap the cryptocurrency's upside and downside are the latest example of products that remove too much risk to actually make sense.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 29 January 2025

• Active bond funds are crushing their benchmarks
  - Barron's, 18 January 2025

• Public-private crossover ETF sees inflows explode after addition of Musk's SpaceX
  - Zero Hedge, 09 January 2025

• Outflows from bond ETFs, such as TLT, have been tremendous over the last two months, due to tax-related needs and pessimism about bond prices.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 January 2025

• Small banks suffer big deposit outflows as money-market funds hit record highs into year-end
  - Zero Hedge, 03 January 2025

• Investors sell gold ETFs for fourth year even with Fed reducing interest rates. A stronger dollar following Trump's election win saw a renewed selloff of those exchange-traded funds, with bullion prices declining from an all-time high as investors redirected money elsewhere, including equities and Bitcoin.
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 2 January 2025

• Gold just saw its biggest yearly gain since 2010 -- here is why Wall Street says prices will go even higher
  - Apollo Global's Yahoo Finance, 2 January 2025

• A record-shattering $1 trillion poured into ETFs this year. Assets in exchange-traded funds in the USA grew by more than 30% in 2024.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 31 December 2024

• Cryptocurrency ETFs experience a huge outflow of money, while others "buy the dip" as bitcoin drops from over 102,000 to 92,000
  - Zero Hedge, 20 December 2024

• Money is flowing out of bitcoin ETFs based in Canada to bitcoin ETFs based in the USA
  - Bloomberg, 17 December 2024

• The biggest owner of stocks in the USA has never been so long. When everybody is already long, it is harder for prices to keep appreciating indefinitely.
  - Zero Hedge, 16 December 2024

• How iShares came to dominate bitcoin ETFs
  - Barron's, 14 December 2024

• Bitcoin euphoria threatens to break these ETFs. Investors are piling into funds that seek to amplify the daily return of MicroStrategy shares, but the ETFs have not been working as intended in recent days.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 December 2024

• ARGT, an ETF concentrating on stocks in Argentina, sees record inflows as traders support the efforts of President Milei to improve the economy
  - Bloomberg, 25 November 2024

• How niche-ETFs, legal Ponzi schemes, have destroyed fundamental analysis. An asset management firm that launches such a niche thematic ETF necessarily has to invest in a very concentrated portfolio of stocks, many of which may be very illiquid. If this ETF then attracts investor money, it must invest this money into the few illiquid stocks it holds. Lots of money chasing these illiquid stocks means their share prices rise, not because of fundamentals but because of a lack of supply. This in turn creates stronger performance for thematic ETF. Themes with strong performance attract media attention and investor attention. If there are enough investors that find the theme attractive, more money will flow into the ETF and the underlying stocks, pushing prices even higher. Result? We have created a Ponzi scheme where new investors pay for the gains of previous investors.
  - Klement on Investing, 21 November 2024

• Assets in bitcoin ETFs rise above $100 billion. Bitcoin ETFs now collectively manage approximately $104 billion, and are on track to surpass gold ETFs in net assets.
  - Zero Hedge, 21 November 2024

• Election week saw huge money-market fund inflows, bank deposits rise, loan volumes shrink
  - Zero Hedge, 15 November 2024

• SPDR Gold Shares (GLD) saw an outflow of over $1 billion, the largest weekly fund outflow since July 2022, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Spot gold fell 1.9% over the same period. Total gold ETF holdings slipped 0.4%, the second straight weekly decline.
  - Bloomberg, 11 November 2024

• TLT.US, the long-dated US treasury ETF, is back trading below its 200-day moving average, and on current form is looking at its fourth year running of negative price returns. Not that this sell-off reflects any lack of retail investor enthusiasm for US bonds. Quite the contrary. As US treasuries pulled back, flows into TLT.US went parabolic - and the s market cap rose from US$10 billion in 2019 to US$60 billion today.
  - Zero Hedge, 01 November 2024

• Cryptocurrency ETFs see big inflows of money ahead of elections in the USA, as traders brace for volatility
  - Thomson's Reuters, 31 October 2024

• MicroStrategy's current premium relative to its bitcoin stack is unlikely to last: Steno Research. The launch of options on spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds in the USA will reduce the incentives for investors to hold MicroStrategy stock over these ETFs, the report said.
  - CoinDesk, 28 October 2024

• Bitcoin flirts with $70,000 after $2.4 billion of inflow into ETFs
  - Bloomberg, 21 October 2024

• Banks in the USA suffer biggest weekly deposit outflow since SVB crisis, while money-market funds see outflows as tax-filing-extension deadline looms
  - Zero Hedge, 18 October 2024

• Over the past decade in fact, ETFs of stocks of companies in Zhōngguó rank alongside the flagship fund of Cathie Wood in producing the biggest erosion of asset value for US ETF investors, according to data compiled by Bloomberg
  - Bloomberg, 17 October 2024

• Inflows into bitcoin ETFs rise about $500 million, but this worries investors, because it is only 3% of the overall bitcoin market
  - AMB Crypto, 15 October 2024

• For the third week in a row (and 9th week in the last 10), money-market funds saw inflows (+$11.3BN), pushing total AUM to a new record high ($6.474TN), even as stocks surged to new record highs, .and also for the third week in a row, US banks saw total bank deposits (seasonally adjusted) rise (by $53.2BN), well above pre-SVB levels.
  - Zero Hedge, 11 October 2024

• Why investors are putting more money in state-specific municipal bond ETFs. These exchange-traded funds could be especially attractive if tax cuts are not extended at the end of 2025.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 07 October 2024

• Banks in the USA experience further deposit outflows as money-market fund assets hit another new record high, with large banks suffered the biggest outflows.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 October 2024

• Money market funds have the biggest inflows since Covid as Fed f**kery turns huge bank deposit outflows into inflows
  - Zero Hedge, 27 September 2024

• The future of finance? Fintech startup launches AI ETF that emulates Buffet, Druckenmiller, and Tepper. The Intelligent Livermore ETF (LIVR) is built around portfolio decisions generated by three prominent large language models (LLMs); ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude - dubbed the fund's "investment committee". AI returns are not great - of the 16 AI-focused ETFs tracked by Bloomberg Intelligence in the U.S., only one, the Franklin Intelligent Machines ETF (IQM), is currently outperforming the S&P 500 in 2024, with a 19% return compared to the stock index's 18%.
  - Zero Hedge, 23 September 2024

• Bank deposits and money-market funds see sizable outflows as stocks surge
  - Zero Hedge, 20 September 2024

• Momentum investing gives you an edge, until it doesn't. Since 2020, momentum investing has generated significantly better returns than other strategies.
  - Zero Hedge, 17 September 2024

• Index ETF returns lag behind index mutual fund returns. Why? ETFs encourage trading, while mutual funds tend to encourage holding.
  - Barron's, 14 September 2024

• REITs are beating the market. 10 investments with juicy yields. Quality REITs should hold up well as the economy slows down. Here are 10 that you should seriously consider.
  - Barron's, 14 September 2024

• How to lose money on the most popular investment theme in the world - AI. Pity the investors in the three artificial-intelligence-themed exchange-traded funds that managed to lose money this year.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 September 2024

• Bank deposits in large US banks plunge, as money market funds hit a new record high, amid equity chaos
  - Zero Hedge, 30 August 2024

• For more than a year, with minimal risk, investors have been able to get more than 5 percent annually -- and substantially beat inflation -- by just parking their cash in fairly reliable places. This wonderful refuge from the market storms is not disappearing. But with short-term interest rates likely to fall soon, the shelter will become less comfortable, and it is time to get ready.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 18 August 2024

• Drawn by the opportunity to invest with private equity firms, small investors rushed into real estate investment trusts. But the funds have lost some appeal as interest rates have climbed.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 13 August 2024

• Investors flooded into money-market funds and bank deposits as markets crashed
  - Zero Hedge, 09 August 2024

• Investors withdraw $2.2 billion from ARKK in 2024, as Cathie Wood underperforms the Nasdaq by -30% year-to-date
  - Zero Hedge, 08 August 2024

• Morgan Stanley tells financial advisers they can pitch Bitcoin ETFs as cryptocurrency speculators bet big on Trump presidency
  - Murdoch's New York Post, 02 August 2024

• Ethereum ETFs versus Bitcoin ETFs: which one should you bet on? Ethereum witnessed four consecutive days of ETF outflows with Bitcoin ETFs experiencing positive netflows during the same period.
  - AMB Crypto, 30 July 2024

• New stock ETFs offer 100% price protection. But there is a big risk. The best time to buy buffered ETFs is when they first launch or when their cap rates expire and reset. If you invest after the SP500's value has already increased above an ETF's set price for the benchmark when it was first issued or during its annual reset, you will be exposed to any downside necessary to reach the ETF's buffer threshold again.
  - Barron's, 27 July 2024

• Financial problems in Zhōngguó are impossible to hide anymore. The 10 largest Zhōngguó ETFs, including the very biggest, iShares MSCI Zhōngguó ETF (MCHI), are down an average of 2.2% this year. That is not the type of return investors look for from emerging markets positions. The S&P 500 is up roughly 15% this year in contrast.
  - Investors Business Daily, 25 July 2024

• The SEC approves Ethereum ETFs -- trading to start tomorrow
  - Zero Hedge, 22 July 2024

• Ethereum ETFs are coming, but ETH derivatives markets are flat. Ethereum futures show little confidence in the chance of ETH breaking above $4,000 in the near term.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 July 2024

• Ethereum jumps above $3,400 on report that ETFs will start trading next week
  - Zero Hedge, 15 July 2024

• Cathie Wood says she wouldn't have sold Nvidia stake "had we known that the market was going to reward it". That is the closest 'apology' her clients will ever get for the massiv losses due to her indecision.
  - Business Insider, 15 July 2024

• Banks in the USA suffer biggest drop in deposits since 'tax day' as money-market fund assets surge to a record high
  - Zero Hedge, 12 July 2024

• The BlackRock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity (BUIDL) fund has reached a $500 million market cap, making it the first tokenized treasury fund to reach this milestone
  - Zero Hedge, 12 July 2024

• Bitcoin extends gains as US ETF inflows battle German government selling overhang. "Germany selling all their Bitcoin will go down as one of the most retarded things their politicians ever did."
  - Zero Hedge, 10 July 2024

• Peter Schiff says "smart money is selling" bitcoin in spot markets, and dumb money is buying it through ETFs: "They set up bitcoin ETF investors to be the bag holders".
  - Benzinga, 09 July 2024

• The price of bitcoin rebounds up, after ETF investors but the dip, with inflows of nearly $300 million into bitcoin ETFs
  - Zero Hedge, 09 July 2024

• Spot bitcoin ETFs see record inflows after the plummeting pre-July-4th
  - Zero Hedge, 06 July 2024

• Steve Kurz, Galaxy Digital' head of asset management believes spot Ether exchange-traded funds will be approved in "weeks" rather than days but agrees the decision will come sometime in July. Galaxy Digital is one of eight asset managers with a proposed spot Ether ETF currently under review with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. It is collaborating with Invesco on the ETF.
  - Coin Telegraph, 03 July 2024

• Cathie Wood's Ark Invest has destroyed $14 billion in wealth over the past decade, according to a Morningstar study
  - Business Insider, 01 July 2024

• As the second-quarter draws to a close, cryptocurrency investors are left wondering what is next for Bitcoin after it retreated from the all-time highs registered during the height of the mania over exchange-traded funds. The downturn has raised the question of whether cracks in momentum trades such as Bitcoin point to a tougher outlook for risk appetite as the prospect of higher-for-longer interest rates hangs over financial markets.
  - Bloomberg, 30 June 2024

• Weekend trading of bitcoin has fallen to all-time low "boring" levels of volume. The drop comes in the wake of the launch of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded-funds, which appears to have shifted the periods when Bitcoin is traded to be more in line with the schedule of traditional equity exchanges and has lowered its price volatility.
  - Bloomberg, 29 June 2024

• Companies that give money to Democrats are beating Republican donors in the stock market. The DEMZ and MAGA ETFs offer investors a way to express their political beliefs via their investments. DEMZ has outperformed MAGA and the S&P 500 since its November 2020 launch.
  - Business Insider, 22 June 2024

• Index funds are ruining the stock market. Passive investing is making market concentration worse, says new research. As the S&P 500 rises, more people will throw money into index funds. The index funds will throw their money into the stocks, with most going into the megacaps. The stocks will rise, other people will get excited by all the money their neighbors are making, and they will rush out and throw their money into index funds too.
  - Murdoch's MarketWatch, 15 June 2024

• Hot investment funds and the curse of 'self-inflated returns'. When billions of dollars gush into an ETF that just reported big gains, more gains can soon follow. The problem: The investors themselves are driving those gains.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 15 June 2024

• A strong USA dollar lifts funds that hedge currencies. There is a better reason to own them.
  - Barron's, 15 June 2024

• SEC Chairman Gensler estimates that the SEC will approve an Ethereum ETF by the "end of the summer"
  - Zero Hedge, 13 June 2024

• Bitcoin ETFs sucked up 2 months of BTC mining-supply in first week of June
  - Zero Hedge, 10 June 2024

• Gold ETFs globally report inflows for the first time in a year
  - Money Metals, 07 June 2024

• Fidelity dominates bitcoin ETFs' second-biggest net inflow day ever, as cryptocurrencies soar
  - Zero Hedge, 05 June 2024

• BlackRock adds own bitcoin ETF to income stock and bond funds. Blackrock's income and bond-focused funds have bought shares of the asset manager's own spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in the first quarter, regulatory filings show.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 May 2024

• BlackRock surpasses Grayscale as the largest ETF for bitcoins in the world
  - Zero Hedge, 28 May 2024

• The performance of Cathie Wood and her ARKK ETF has been atrocious, and she is blaming the Nasddaq, at all time highs, calling it a "great depression", for her underperformance
  - QTR Fringe Finance, 28 May 2024

• Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein steps down amid relentless ETF outflows. The simplest reason for the outflows is that while GBTC charges a 1.5% fee, all other bitcoin ETFs charge next to nothing.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 May 2024

• Banks in the USA (mostly from larger banks) suffer $80 billion depositk decline, while money market fund AUMs rise as stocks soar
  - Zero Hedge, 17 May 2024

• Morgan Stanley discloses $270 million investment in the Grayscale Bitcoin ETF
  - Zero Hedge, 16 May 2024

• Investors wary of US cannabis ETFs despite recent rally. Justice Department recently said it plans to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug
  - Murdoch's Fox News, 08 May 2024

• Bitcoin ETFs see buying resurgence; 'Mr. 100' BTFD as Grayscale sees first inflow since January
  - Zero Hedge, 04 May 2024

• Fidelity, a major financial services firm, says pension funds are starting to explore investing in Bitcoin, particularly after the approval of spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds earlier this year.
  - Zero Hedge, 04 May 2024

• Bitcoin ETFs suffer their worst day ever. We have had 6 days in a row of outflows from the US spot ETFs and, as importantly, we are now below the average ETF purchase price of around 58,000
  - Zero Hedge, 02 May 2024

• Bitcoin ETFs suffer their worst day ever. We have had 6 days in a row of outflows from the US spot ETFs and, as importantly, we are now below the average ETF purchase price of around 58,000
  - Zero Hedge, 02 May 2024

• Bitcoin declined by almost 6% on Wednesday, having posted its worst monthly performance in April since late 2022, as investors pulled money out of cryptocurrencies ahead of an interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve later. The price of bitcoin is now a full 22% below March's record of $73,803, technically putting it in a bear market. But it is still up 35% so far this year and double where it was this time last year, thanks in large part to the billions of dollars flowing into newly minted exchange-traded funds since January.
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 01 May 2024

• Disappointing volume for the launch of cryptocurrency ETFS in Hong Kong, though issuers unfazed by the SEC's 'ETH-security' debacle
  - Zero Hedge, 30 April 2024

• The SEC is expected to deny in May the approval of spot Ether ETFs, wile Consensys sues over 'security' status. "This would bring use of the Ethereum blockchain in the US to a halt, crippling a great innovation."
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2024

• USO, the largest ETF for oil, experiences a record outflow on subsiding geopolitical risk premium
  - Zero Hedge, 25 April 2024

• Hong Kong bitcoin and ether ETFs officially approved to start trading on April 30
  - Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024

• New ETFs are available that use options to offer "100% downside protection"
  - Zero Hedge, 24 April 2024

• Cathie Wood's popular ARK funds are sinking fast. Investors have pulled a net $2.2 billion from ARK's active funds this year, topping outflows from all of 2023.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 April 2024

• Blackrock bitcoin ETF enters top 10 all-time for longest sequential inflows
  - Zero Hedge, 23 April 2024

• The Invesco S&P 500 GARP ETF (SPGP) has beaten the S&P 500 in seven of the last 10 years and has steadily outperformed it over the last decade.
  - Motley Fool, 21 April 2024

• BOXX, an ETF launched in December 2022, uses a low-risk options strategy known as 'box spreads' to generate returns that match those of short-term Treasury bills, but it does not actually distribute any income. That allows investors who hold the fund for at least a year to pay a long-term capital-gains rate when they sell, as opposed to the income-tax rate. For people in the top federal bracket, that is a difference between being taxed 37% at the federal level or 20%.
  - Barron's, 20 April 2024

• For years, the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust was one of the few ways to bet on bitcoin without buying the cryptocurrency itself. Now, with the sector awash in lower-cost competing funds, investors are fleeing the exchange-traded fund. The asset manager has resisted a significant fee cut, betting that rising bitcoin prices will continue to buoy its fortunes.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 April 2024

• How the gold ETF, GLD, laid the groundwork for the success of the bitcoin ETFS, both for the same reason - being able to handle billions in institutional investments
  - Risk Hedge, 15 April 2024

• Hong Kong regulators approve launch of spot bitcoin and ether ETFs
  - Comcast's CNBC, 15 April 2024

• Bitcoin was left for dead. Why Wall Street is bringing it back to life. An asset class left for dead is reinventing itself on Wall Street in part because there is money to be made.
  - Barron's, 13 April 2024

• The stock market in Bharat is 'red hot'. These funds will get you in.
  - Barron's, 13 April 2024

• "Zhōngguó is about to stat bidding on bitcoin" - will the approval of bitcoin ETFs in Hong Kong spark the halving rally? Mega whales with over 10,000 BTC are accumulating ahead of Hong Kong's approval of the first spot Bitcoin ETFs that could happen next week.
  - CoinTelegraph, 12 April 2024

• Some of the largest funds in Zhōngguó are using Hong Kong subsidiaries to enter the Bitcoin ETF market. Approval of Bitcoin ETF products from such influential institutions could significantly validate Bitcoin in the eyes of both regulators and investors in Zhōngguó.
  - Zero Hedge, 09 April 2024

• For the second time in a week, trading in an ETF that owns gold companies was halted overnight in Zhōngguó. The ETF's price had gained over 40% in the past four sessions before falling 10% after trading resumed Monday. "Investos in Zhōngguó are so desperate to buy things that are not linked to their own economy/stock mkt, which has been in the gutter."
  - Zero Hedge, 08 April 2024

• Bitcoin ETF assets are now nearly half those in gold ETFs
  - Barron's, 30 March 2024

• Bitcoin pricces decline aboput 4% after a judge rules that the SEC's lawsuit against Coinbase can proceed, a decline even as inflows into bitcoin ETFs rise
  - Comcast's CNBC, 27 March 2024

• BlackRock says bitcoin returns likely to come down now that it has been embraced by Wall Street
  - Comcast's CNBC, 26 March 2024

• Is options selling by options-enhanced equity income ETFs distorting the VIX? Some market strategists think so. Selling such options by these ETFs appears to have lowered the premiums of options and in turn their implied volatility as measured by VIX.
  - Barron's, 23 March 2024

• Bitcoin briefly slumps below $63,000 after topping a record $73,000 (a 1% drop) last week
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2024

• Grayscale CEO says its higher-than-average fees (1.%) on its bitcoin ETF will drop over time after outflows hit $12 billion since it became an ETF in January.
  - Comcast's CNBC, 19 March 2024

• Democrats in Congress demand that the SEC block all future crypto ETFs and pressure brokers, due to "enormous risks"
  - Zero Hedge, 15 March 2024

• Money-market fund assets soar $100 billion in 3 weeks as Fed's Bank Bailout Facility expires
  - Zero Hedge, 14 March 2024

• Hot new bitcoin funds are still waiting for buy-in from financial advisers. Individual investors, who are shifting their bitcoin holdings from more expensive crypto products, appear to be driving the ETF demand.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 14 March 2024

• Bitcoin faces a "sell-side liquidity crisis" by September if institutional inflows continue, an industry analyst says. A new phenomenon could arise where there will not be enough BTC available to meet demand.
  - Zero Hedge, 14 March 2024

• The VanEck Gold Miners ETF is 23.8% off its 1 year high while gold is just 2.45% off its 1 year high
  - Zero Hedge, 13 March 2024

• Bitcoin tops $73,000 after a record-breaking inflow of money into bitcoin ETFs
  - Zero Hedge, 13 March 2024

• Spot Gold prices spiked above $2185 this morning on the jobs data - a new record high for the precious metal - dipped back lower... then saw another wave of buying to lift it to another record high at $2195. But while ETFs are selling gold as its price rises (????), central banks are still buying.
  - Zero Hedge, 08 March 2024

• Shares of Nvidia plummet 13% in the morning, after bitcoin is dumped-and-pumped
  - Zero Hedge, 08 March 2024

• Money-market fund assets hit new record high as the Fed's Bank Bailout Fund set to expire
  - Zero Hedge, 07 March 2024

• Bitcoin surpasses its all-time high of $69,000, briefly topping the market capitalization of silver
  - Zero Hedge, 05 March 2024

• Short-sellers gain nearly $1 billion targeting US regional bank ETF, the SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF, which has dropped 9.2% this year. Those betting against the Invesco KBW Regional Banking ETF, another ETF tied to the industry, are sitting on $663 million of paper profits.
  - Thomson's Reuters, 04 March 2024

• Are the 'gamma aqueezes' that sent up the Mag& stocks about to send up the bicoin ETFs?
  - Zero Hedge, 02 March 2024

• Bank of America, Wells Fargo offer spot bitcoin ETFs to clients. The move by these banks reflects the growing interest among investors in gaining exposure to bitcoin.
  - Zero Hedge, 29 February 2024

• Bitcoin tops $57,000 as ETF inflows soar, ethereum bigger than ASML and Samsung
  - Zero Hedge, 27 February 2024

• Target-date funds are not carefree. The bond debate. Some investment managers say that using passive bond indexes for target-date funds makes them more volatile when interest rates gyrate.
  - Barron's, 24 February 2024

• Over the last 10 years, Cathie Woods has lost $14.3 billion of her clients' money
  - Zero Hedge, 20 February 2024

• Ethereum outperforms as bitcoin soars. Goldman Sachs notes that ETFs are dominating flows as liquidity improves.
  - Zero Hedge, 20 February 2024

• Bitcoin tops $1 trillion as gold ETFs dumped in favor of cryptocurrencies
  - Zero Hedge, 14 February 2024

• Franklin Templeton has applied for a spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund, a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows
  - Zero Hedge, 13 February 2024

• Bitcoin soars above $50,000 for the first time since December 2021, after surge in ETF inflows. "Bitcoin appears set to resume its march up after the Grayscale outflows finally tapered off."
  - Zero Hedge, 12 February 2024

• Bitcoin soars to post-ETF-launch highs as net inflows explode. Bitcoin appears set to resume its march up after the Grayscale outflows finally tapered off."
  - Zero Hedge, 09 February 2024

• Bitcoin surges over $45,000 as rising inflows into ETFs confirm an accelerating interest by investors
  - Zero Hedge, 08 February 2024

• Standard Chartered sees ether hitting $4,000 by May, when ethereum ETF is approved
  - Zero Hedge, 05 February 2024

• Zhōngguó has pushed a group of state-linked companies to buy exchange-traded funds, part of an effort to boost stock prices. So far, it is not working.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 03 February 2024

• Cryptocurrency funds have arrived, but who needs them? According to one analyst: "Bitcoin is still in the price discovery stage. We are still trying to figure out what it might be worth."
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 28 January 2024

• After historic rout, ETFs in Zhōngguó see explosive inflows as Zhōngguó is "among the world's best investments"
  - Zero Hedge, 25 January 2024

• Grayscale led the fight for bitcoin ETFs. Now its fund is bleeding billions. The cryptocurrency giant's $23 billion fund has the most to lose.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 24 January 2024

• The New York Stock Exchange has withdrawn its proposal to establish and list Natural Asset Companies, which would pool money from investors around the world to buy controlling rights to public and private land throughout the USA.
  - Zero Hedge, 19 January 2024

• The $8.8 trillion cash pile that has stock-market bulls salivating. Wall Street hopes trillions in money-market funds will flow into stocks and bonds. Investors have varying plans.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 19 January 2024

• The plunge protection team of Zhōngguó buys billions in ETFs to halt market rout
  - Zero Hedge, 18 January 2024

• ETFs make the problems of bitcoin even worse. Bitcoin ETFs are likely to exacerbate its bad performance in crises by bringing in even more speculators to what is already mostly a speculative asset.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 January 2024

• The last man standing in cryptocurrencies. Brian Armstrong has continued expanding Coinbase Global despite the industry slowdown and a long string of unprofitable quarters.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 16 January 2024

• Bitcoin ETFs mark a milestone for cryptocurrencies. Now the real test begins. The industry's big win, obtaining bitcoin ETF approval, could bring a flood of new money to Bitcoin, but it still faces hurdles to going mainstream.
  - Murdoch's Barron's, 13 January 2024

• Bitcoin rallies to $49,000 after SEC greenlights launch of bitcoin ETFs in the USA
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 January 2024

• The Securities and Exchange Commission authorized 11 applications to offer exchange-traded funds tied to Bitcoin
  - Ochs-Sulzberger's New York Times, 11 January 2024

• The SEC approves bitcoin ETFs for everyday investors. The exchange-traded funds will allow investors to buy bitcoin as easily as stocks or mutual funds.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 11 January 2024

• Why one bank predicts that bitcoin will hit $200,000 after ETF approval
  - Zero Hedge, 10 January 2024

• A real-estate juggernaut ran off the rails in 2023. At nontraded REITs, fundraising tumbled and shareholders cashed out as worries rose over the commercial-property market.
  - Murdoch's Wall Street Journal (locked), 02 January 2024