In a filing Wednesday, the agency said it was postponing its decision until June 17. Optimism has been growing that the SEC may finally approve a Bitcoin ETF launch this year.
The agency lending platform joins a compact group of less than a dozen companies that enable funds to lend securities to be sold short.
The bank's analysts credit the global pandemic with stirring investor demand for companies doing good, and also cite the frenzy for tech-focused thematic funds, many of which fall within the environmental, social and governance category.
Investors plowed $1.25 billion into the BlackRock U.S. Carbon Transition Readiness ETF Thursday, making it the biggest launch in the ETF industry’s three-decade history.
The company says it will convert its $39 billion Grayscale Bitcoin Trust into an exchange-traded fund as soon as U.S. regulators allow.
A surge into equities fueled the record, but bond ETFs also grew, State Street Global Advisors reports.
The flipside of the new Innovator Capital Management products is the performance is capped and they can be more expensive than some of the cheaper indexed options.
The company's announcement that it was slashing fees on two of its bond funds came just a day after BlackRock lowered fees on its lineup of style ETFs.
The company's proposed exchange-traded fund would track the cryptocurrency using pricing from U.S.-based exchanges including Bitstamp, Coinbase and Gemini.
The surging bull market for stocks has increased the need to split shares to keep prices manageable for investors.
ETFs expected to make up a growing share of investor portfolios in the year ahead, according to Charles Schwab & Co.’s ETF Investor Study.
The equally weighted S&P 500 index has outperformed its cap-weighted counterpart this year.
Morningstar data show women are making little progress breaking into the ranks of portfolio managers.
The low-cost provider is planning a cash-alternative exchange-traded fund whose cost is about half that of popular ETFs in the category.
Co-founders of the RIA Rachel Robasciotti and Maya Philipson will not work with clients at Abacus and will largely spend time managing their ETF. The firm reported $130 million in assets under management.
The 84-year-old fund complex enters the ETF market with four funds, including two ESG strategies, and joins a host of fund companies seeking opportunities in the semitransparent space.
The fund rebalances gold and cash based on recent market volatility. It marks the first product from Wilshire Phoenix after the firm spent much of the past two years trying to get a bitcoin ETF approved by the SEC.
Deborah Fuhr sits down with Greg Friedman, head of ETF Management and Strategy at Fidelity, to discuss the listing of the Fidelity Magellan ETF, the criteria investors should consider when deciding between using an ETF or a mutual fund.
Record outflows from mutual funds have analysts wondering about the future of giants like American Funds, T. Rowe Price and Dimensional Fund Advisors. While mutual funds still hold more than three times the assets of exchange-traded funds, they registered a record $289 billion in outflows last year, according to Morningstar.
There are now five companies offering downside protection through buffered ETFs, and two more firms with products in the filing stages
