Your weekly update on top ETF trends
 | FRI, MAY 27, 2022 | | | |
| | | YOUR WEEKLY UPDATE ON TOP ETF TRENDS | | | | |
It's confusing: after dropping nearly 20% this year, the S&P 500 has rallied about 7% off the lows in the last week. Where is the money going? What is the retail investor doing? Join us this Wednesday on ETF Edge at 1 PM ET when our guests will be Nicholas Colas, Co-founder of DataTrek, who closely watches fund flows, and Anthony Denier, CEO of Webull. Learn where the money is going, and how retail brokers are diversifying into passive investing and payment systems. Plus: what's up with the huge trading in leveraged and inverse ETFs? The SEC announced they would be seeking to broaden their existing rules governing the naming of funds. They want to stop companies from using deceptive or agencies or misleading fund titles. It's a laudable goal, but it is creating a lot of confusion in the investing community, including the ETF community. Terms like "value" and "growth" may have more clearly defined concepts than "ESG" or "Carbon Neutral." Well, you knew this was going to happen. With bitcoin down about 40% this year, little wonder that short sellers are heavily shorting the main bitcoin futures ETF, ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO). Here's a welcome trend: "Large institutions are increasingly using bond exchange traded funds to manage their portfolios according to market participants, who expect this trend to increase liquidity and reduce fixed income ETF trading costs for all investors. " |
For more analysis and actionable insights, catch me live this Monday at 1 PM ET on ETF Edge. |
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