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How Active Finance ETF FDFF Has Delivered on Key Milestone

The ETF landscape grows every day, with new active and passive strategies available for investors to use. Those funds range from core allocations to bespoke, thematic offerings. How, then, should investors parse that po…

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Small Caps, Big Opportunities: Consider Value Amid Rally

Small-cap equities are winning out against their large-cap counterparts in a classic David versus Goliath ETF battle. After years of mega-cap technology dominance, small-cap equities have delivered investors a historic …

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The Hidden Strength of Active Sector ETFs Spiking Right Now

Sector ETFs have long been a part of the overall ETF ecosystem. The ETF’s transparency, flexibility, and tax efficiency have made it a vehicle for all sorts of sector strategies. However, they haven’t always delivered. …

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The Bottlenecks of the Nuclear Fuel & Supply Chain

While there is no shortage of demand from the nuclear renaissance, the rate of deploying new reactors will be determined by the capacity of the supply chain. Expanding capacity for supply chain bottlenecks, such as pump…

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AI Infrastructure Trade Still Alive. Seize It with SOXL

There’s no denying that artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure equities endured a rough stretch in July and “rough” might even be an understatement. However, traders shouldn’t write off the sector just yet because …

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Malaysia’s July CPI rises 1.8% y/y, slightly less than forecast

KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia’s headline inflation, which came unchanged year-on-year at 2% in June, is projected to remain steady for the rest of 2024, on the muted impact from the recent diesel subsidy rationalisat…

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German companies cut US investment to three-year low, data show

August 16, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT. Executives told CoinDesk that crypto allocators are evaluating tokens based on revenue, user activity and value extraction instead of using market capitalization as a quality metric. Winter…

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VanEck’s Top 10 Income ETFs Ranked by ETF Yields

Many investors need more than traditional bonds can deliver. VanEck provides access to a range of higher-yielding asset classes built for today’s income environment. Key Takeaways With a 13.46% yield, MORT provides broa…

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Reader Mailbag: More Payouts Every Year

Two weeks ago, Robert left a comment that asked me to name my five favorite dividend stocks that pay monthly. I can easily rattle off my five favorite dividend stocks right now, but none of them pay out monthly.

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Retail Sales Fall Unexpectedly in July

U.S. headline retail sales fell unexpectedly in July, down 0.6% to $763.6B in July, while core retail sales fell unexpectedly by 0.3%. Key Takeaways Headline retail sales fell unexpectedly in July, down 0.6% to $763.6 b…

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US retail sales post first decline in nine months in July

U.S. retail sales declined in July for the first time in nine months, according to a Commerce Department report released on Friday. The drop, which was the largest in 14 months, signals a marked slowdown in consumer spe…

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SPY Leads Inflows for Week Ended Aug. 13

The week ended August 13 saw nearly $50 billion in net inflows to the ETF space. Unsurprisingly, equity ETFs received the lion’s share of the new dollars. They pulled in nearly $31 billion, with $23 billion of that goin…

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Income ETF GPIQ Adds $2.5 Billion in YTD Flows

As investor interest in income ETFs continues to surge, asset managers have increasingly innovated to meet the demand. The market has expanded beyond traditional bond-focused offerings to include a variety of derivative…

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Emerging Sector Opportunities & Income Strategies for H2 2026

Which sectors are showing the strongest earnings momentum? And where could investors find opportunities beyond technology? On August 18, 2026, experts from VettaFi and State Street Investment Management will discuss sec…

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Risk Management Is Real Diversification

For decades, the investment industry has promoted diversification as the answer to risk. Own stocks. Own bonds. Add a few additional asset classes. Rebalance periodically. The assumption was simple: different investment…

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The SpaceX Transformation: From Space Pioneer to AI Powerhouse

SpaceX (SPCX) captured investor attention once again this week as investors digested a series of rapid developments that are fundamentally reshaping the company’s valuation story. What began as a pure-play commercial sp…

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Adventurous ETFs for Betting On or Against the Fed

Guessing what the Federal Reserve is going to do next is an increasingly difficult task. For some time, the war in Iran bolstered the possibility that the central bank would have to raise rates at some point this year t…

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Active Stock Funds Chase Income as Yields Sink

Investors seeking income are moving into active stock funds. The category gathered $36 billion in July, according to State Street Investment Management. That brought year-to-date inflows to $272.5 billion, keeping activ…

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HOLD – Growth With a Safety Net: How GFLW Tames Volatility

A common myth in the capital markets is that, in order to achieve growth, investors need to accept greater volatility. The VictoryShares Free Cash Flow Growth ETF (GFLW) solves this dilemma by targeting profitable, grow…

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Why Quality Investing Is About More Than Outperformance

Outperformance is only half the story of quality investing. As George Valantis, director of factors and dividends at S&P Dow Jones Indices, pointed out — the quality factor can also matter for how portfolios behave when…

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Midstream ETFs AMLP and ENFR Announce Q3 Distributions

Midstream continues to build on its reputation as a generous source of yield in portfolios. This week, two category-leading midstream ETFs – the Alerian MLP ETF (AMLP) and the Alerian Energy Infrastructure ETF (ENFR) – …