Join three VettaFi voices – Todd Rosenbluth, Cinthia Murphy, and Roxanna Islam, CFA, CAIA – for a deep dive into the ETF trends that have shaped and will shape 2025.
In the 2018 thriller A Quiet Place, silence masks imminent danger. Today's equity markets offer a similarly deceptive peace.
Sharp losses in high-flying momentum stocks may present a dip-buying opportunity if history is any guide, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s trading desk.
Mutual funds are bleeding assets anew, just as their ETF cousins break fresh records.
If you’re a tech company not called Apple Inc., getting regular people to pay attention to your smartphone launch is a challenge. Your executives, who simply must be involved, are stuffy, wooden and, more often than not, white and old. Even worse, they’re not famous.
The US and European Union took the next steps to formalize their trade pact, detailing plans that could reduce tariffs on European automobiles within weeks while opening the door to new potential discounts for steel and aluminum.
Fresh from a bruising tussle with the White House over tariffs, Vietnam is confronting a different but no less delicate challenge.
July CPI, PPI, and Retail Sales are in the rearview mirror, and investors now look ahead to a trio of key potential macro volatility catalysts this week.
Revamped insurance regulations could bring securitized investments back into play.
Producer prices rose significantly more than expected in July, throwing markets into turmoil and calling into question what seemed like an almost certain Federal Reserve interest rate cut in September.
Uncertainty remains high, but so are bond yields, leading to attractive opportunities for active investors, in our view.
For taxable investors, an appreciating portfolio can be a mixed blessing. But regular loss harvesting isn’t the only way to reduce your portfolio’s tax bill, especially as its value rises. We share four important tax management techniques for the future.
Small-cap stocks have provided a return pattern quite different from large-cap stocks. Typically, small caps either race ahead of larger companies or else fall behind. They’re rarely in synch.
Ample volatility and shifting rate expectations have sent investors on an avid search for stability and diversification.
The allocation into fixed income isn’t just happening on a retail level. Increasingly, more allocation is happening with asset managers, including heightened interest in active management.
Switzerland lacks leverage to challenge punitive tariffs.
For many students, high school is about preparing for college. Our Bill Cass reviews a four-year plan with action items for both parents and students.
Last week, the S&P 500 had a rally that took it to three straight record highs but the momentum cooled as economic data painted a complex picture. Read through the major economic news from the week of August 11th-15th.
This video highlights the major economic news from the week of August 11th-15th.
In a profession that once relied on handwritten notes and leather-bound appointment books, financial advisors now stand at the cusp of a seismic shift. Artificial intelligence is no longer just a buzzword floating around fintech conferences.
This week’s column will explore the impact on team members and how to navigate a successful transition when your team has become like family and they care deeply about keeping the status quo in place.
In this article, we’ll unpack some of the most common misconceptions we see and help you reframe how you think about marketing. Because once you understand what truly works, you’ll be in a much stronger position to grow your firm with clarity and confidence.
If ever there were conditions that cried out for stimulus, China appears to have met them. Recent gauges of growth and inflation were more than just disappointing.
Despite Tuesday’s wobble, the narrative that has been fueling the sharp recovery in US equities since April remains supportive as the drivers of the rally are still intact.
There’s a new fox sniffing around the private credit henhouse. Last year, Apollo Global Management Inc. engineered an innovative trade for its insurance arm Athene Holding Ltd., with the help of an obscure Luxembourg-based firm. It’s fascinating and troubling in equal measure.
Companies touting their artificial intelligence and crypto-sector ties are speeding up their IPO timelines, after triple-digit first-day pops became a regular feature in this summer’s sizzling US market for new issues.
Traders are piling into one specific options wager that relies on a dovish Federal Reserve slashing interest rates by over a quarter-point next month.
As an industry leader, Vanguard cultivates a detailed understanding of defined contribution (DC) plans and their role in the U.S. retirement system.
Market uncertainty is leaving would-be retirees unsure about the future. Here, three Schwab professionals discuss how to navigate the transition with confidence.
We received a slew of economic data this past week, but the true market mover lies ahead this Friday: Chair Powell’s upcoming Jackson Hole address.
This week, the focus shifts to US retailers, particularly after recent economic data.
In this article, Russ Koesterich discusses his latest recommendations around portfolio positioning in anticipation of a potentially more volatile fall.
There is little doubt that excess bullishness has invaded the general market psyche. Just a couple of months following the market decline in March and April, where sentiment turned exceedingly bearish, the S&P 500 hovers near its highs.
Three summers ago, single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs hit the market when AXS investments rolled out the first such fund in July 2022.
Bitcoin enjoyed a long summer in the spotlight, as prices notched new records and regulatory policy proved favorable.
Limited price collection will complicate estimates of inflation.
Winding Down The Summer! While summer ‘officially’ lasts until late September, Labor Day marks its ‘unofficial’ close – and it’s fast approaching. That makes now the perfect time to hit the beach, prep and get organized for the school year, or sneak in a last-minute getaway.
Second quarter earnings season, which winds down this week and next, has met some of the highest expectations. Strong beat rates, big upside earnings surprises, and increases in estimates during the past four weeks were consistent themes that gave investors very little to complain about.
Todd Rosenbluth, Head of Research at VettaFi, offers an in-depth look at the forthcoming multi-share class structure and what it means for both investors and fund issuers. Paul Baiocchi, Chief ETF Strategist at SS&C ALPS Advisors, explores the key trends driving the next wave of ETF growth and innovation.
What is one of your “hard truths” about money? An assumption like “money is power” that you have never questioned? “Truths” like these are financial beliefs, or money scripts, that often sound completely reasonable on the surface. But in my work as a financial therapist, I’ve learned that these money scripts aren’t facts.
A high-yield municipal-bond fund run by Capital Group saw the biggest inflow of any US-based exchange-traded fund on Friday, with an infusion of $1.54 billion.
In this article, I will discuss the automatic Social Security bridge strategy built into the AFP models and look at several hypothetical client situations to quantify how much a Social Security bridge strategy (SSBS) may actually enhance your retired client’s retirement security.
Imagine having the ability to withdraw funds during retirement without worrying about the tax bill that typically accompanies your withdrawals. With in-plan Roth conversions, you gain this advantage and enjoy the satisfaction of knowing your investment will grow tax-free.
A portfolio of longish-term bonds held to a shortish-term horizon did appear to benefit from a drop and suffer harm from a jump in interest rates. This article’s purpose is to sharpen that observation and remove the ambiguity.
Morgan Stanley had an unusual message when it approached four of the world’s biggest asset managers in July: they had progressed to the final round of one of the most sought-after private credit deals to date. But if they wanted to get to the finish line, they would need to pair up.
Lauded for their yield, credit quality, and of course, their federal tax-free income, municipal bond benefits are also extending into the containment of tariff contagion.
Recently, due to deals President Trump is making, some are saying the United States has embarked on a version of Chinese-style “state capitalism” – directly entangling markets and government.
Investment assets – things such as stocks, bonds, companies, and buildings – have a value, which is sometimes referred to as their “intrinsic value”: what the asset is “worth” at a point in time. This value is subjective. It can’t definitively be found anywhere – not even by AI, as far as I know – and opinions will differ as to what it is.
On the latest edition of Market Week in Review, Global Chief Investment Strategist Paul Eitelman recapped the stock market’s latest record-setting run. He also dug into the health of the global economy and the latest inflation numbers from the United States.
Elevated yields and conservative balance sheets are helping high yield stay resilient amid trade uncertainty.
