On this week’s episode of ETF Prime, host Nate Geraci was joined by VettaFi Head of Research Todd Rosenbluth to discuss polling results from VettaFi’s Fixed Income Symposium. Afterward, Richard Kerr, Partner at K&L Gates, brought a legal analysis to multi-share class structure filings. Matthew Sigel, Head of Digital Assets Research at VanEck, then...

Digging into the first quarter’s earnings season allows us to uncover the winning themes of the period as captured by ETFs. Although some of the ETF’s associated with these themes have yet to be rewarded from a performance and flows perspective, this analysis may suggest, to use a hockey analogy, where the thematic “puck is [...] The post Thematic...

New reported plans by the U.S. government could pave the pay for profit in marijuana investing. The White House is reportedly seeking to reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I drug to a Schedule III. This would not legalize the drug for recreational use. It would label cannabis as a less dangerous substance and move it [...] The post Reclassification...

By Chris Konstantinos, CFA Energy Benefits From Higher Growth and Inflation SUMMARY The US is finally exiting the era of negative real interest rates. We think positive real rates tend to accompany a ‘reflationary’ backdrop of moderately elevated economic growth and inflation. We believe US energy stocks are uniquely well-positioned in a ‘reflationary’...

Is now the time for adding some more income to portfolios? Investors are facing growing uncertainty as a higher for longer interest rate regime appears more likely than ever. That one-two punch of higher interest rates and inflation may be throwing a wrench in investors’ plans, particularly those nearing retirement. Recognizing that situation, many...

I occasionally say that I have more than 3,000 ETF children to keep track of. It’s hard to monitor individual accomplishments. Something novel needs to break through.  The FT Equity Income Partners Enhanced Income ETF (EIPI) began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) yesterday. It brought $287 million and a more than decade-old track [...]...