State Street’s own 2026 ETF outlook called active fixed income the “global product center of gravity”, which is a striking concession from the firm that built the largest passive high-yield ETF on the market.…
State Street opened its 2026 Global ETF Outlook with a single sentence that framed an entire year of flows: “Defense was the standout theme of 2025.” The line, buried on page 13 of a…
The 2026 Global ETF Outlook from State Street made a specific call about where fixed income flows are heading. State Street wrote that “Active ETFs incorporating CLO-based fixed income strategies are gaining traction, reflecting…
The iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF (NYSEARCA:BAI) solves a problem that has tripped up most thematic funds: how to own the AI build-out without locking yourself into a static index that gets…
The VistaShares Target 15 ACKtivist Distribution ETF (NYSEARCA:ACKY) gives investors a packaged way to ride alongside Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square book while collecting a targeted 15% annual distribution paid monthly. The fund mirrors Pershing…
Income investors hunting for double-digit yields keep landing on the YieldMax Ultra Option Income Strategy ETF (NYSEARCA:ULTY), a weekly-paying fund that has built a $2.48 billion asset base in roughly two years. The pitch…
Roundhill’s weekly-pay ETF lineup has built a following among income seekers willing to swap diversification for fat, frequent checks. Roundhill AMZN WeeklyPay ETF (CBOE:AMZW) is the Amazon flavor, and its weekly distributions have ranged…
ARK Space Exploration & Innovation ETF (NYSEARCA:ARKX) has rewarded patient holders lately, with shares near $33 after a 74% one-year run and a 13% year-to-date gain. That kind of move tends to bury the…
The standard way to own semiconductors is to buy a cap-weighted fund and accept that NVIDIA, Broadcom, and TSMC will dominate the returns. SPDR S&P Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:XSD) takes the opposite approach. It uses…
Growth investors picking a large-cap vehicle in 2026 face a real choice: pay nothing for a passive index, or pay a few basis points for an active manager who claims to add value. The…
The Global X Artificial Intelligence & Technology ETF (NASDAQ:AIQ) tries to solve a problem most retail investors run into when they try to express an AI thesis: picking the right name. Buy a chipmaker…
The First Trust Indxx Aerospace & Defense ETF (NASDAQ:MISL) exists to solve a concentration problem: anyone betting on the defense and aerospace cycle through a single name takes on F-35 program risk, 737 certification…
Few sector ETFs have rewarded patience like semiconductors. VanEck Semiconductor ETF (NYSEARCA:SMH) trades near $510 after returning roughly 141% over the past year against the S&P 500’s 29%. That gap is the entire reason…
The Procure Space ETF (NYSEARCA:UFO) was built to give investors a single ticket to a fragmented industry: rocket builders, satellite operators, ground-segment vendors, and direct-to-device communications upstarts that rarely fit cleanly into a sector…
The communication services sector is a concentration bet dressed up as diversification. After the 2018 GICS reshuffle pulled Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, and Disney out of technology and consumer discretionary, the sector became dominated by…
Consumer discretionary names live or die on whether households feel comfortable opening their wallets, and right now those signals are flashing in opposite directions. Right now those signals are crossing in unusual directions: the…
Semiconductors have rewarded patient investors more than nearly any other sector bet. Anyone who held the iShares Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SOXX) for the past decade is sitting on a 1,608% gain, and the past…
The Themes Uranium & Nuclear ETF (NYSEARCA:URAN) has handed investors a nearly 75% gain over the past year, riding a thesis that ties artificial intelligence power demand, government support for nuclear, and a structural…
SPDR S&P Emerging Markets Dividend ETF (NYSEARCA:EDIV) has quietly put together a strong run, with shares up about 24% over the past year and about 7% year-to-date through April 17, 2026. For income-focused investors,…
Select STOXX Europe Aerospace & Defense ETF (NASDAQ:EUAD) was the cleanest way to own European defense stocks from a U.S. brokerage account in 2025. The fund launched by Tuttle Capital Management on October 22,…
