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In the season of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) focus, funds usually fall into one of two broad categories.

Anticipation has been brewing for bitcoin futures ETFs to get the go-ahead from US regulators after a series of positive signs.

Star stock picker Cathie Wood's ARK Invest has given its brand name to a new bitcoin futures ETF that will invest in cryptocurrency futures contracts and trade on the CBOE BZX Exchange, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed.

Cathie Wood’s investment firm, ARK Invest, is the latest to join the race for a Bitcoin ETF tied to CME traded futures contracts.

Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas said that the addition of a ticker to Valkyrie's proposed Bitcoin futures ETF prospectus suggests that an SEC approval could be announced soon.

Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management is the most recent financial institution to file for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

June 1, 2021 It’s hard to believe, but this summer marks ten amazing years since the launch of ETF Prime. Some already know the backstory, but the podcast actually began as a local radio show in Kansas City.  Its roots go back to early 2011 when I found myself in a packed Starbucks discussing ETFs with a business acquaintance. Even though ETFs had been around since 1993, we were debating whether the average person even knew what an ETF was. After one too many cups of coffee, I decided to s...

What You Need to Know Alpha Architect has plans for an ETF that invests in companies associated with cryptocurrency mining; Osprey Funds, sponsor of the Osprey Bitcoin Trust. RIA Digital Assets Council partnered with the New York Institute of Finance for its certificate program. Schwab and Nuveen add new funds. In another twist on the rush to sponsor a cryptocurrency ETF, Alpha Architect has filed an application with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an ETF that invests in compa...

Market antics could force ETF resiliency into new test Print ARK’s Catherine ‘Cathie’ Wood feels confident that the ETF market could handle any issues that come up. In 2020, the resiliency of exchange-traded funds was on display as the products withstood the market gyrations of the spring. Now, a confluence of forces in 2021 may test ETFs yet again. For the most part, ETFs were an afterthought in the recent run-up and run-down of stocks (or "stonks") targeted by boosters on the Reddit Inc...

February 16, 2021 Widely regarded as ‘the father of modern finance’, Eugene Fama’s work is highly regarded in the capital markets. His work is also the basis for Canadian firm SmartBe Wealth’s four new ETFs. Fama’s work in portfolio theory, asset pricing, and efficient markets eventually earned him the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Robert J. Shiller and Lars Peter Hansen in 2013. In 2019, the Research Papers in Economics project considered Fama the 9th-most ...