As Traditional TV Disappears, Play the Cord-Cutting ARKW ETF March 12, 2021
At the hands of streaming entertainment, linear television is bleeding market share and, in the eyes of many market observers, dying a slow death. Investors looking to capitalize on that situation should consider the
ARKW aims to capture long-term growth with a low correlation of relative returns to traditional growth strategies and a negative correlation to value strategies. It serves as a tool for diversification due to little overlap with traditional indices. The actively managed strategy combines top-down and bottom-up research in its portfolio management to identify innovative companies and convergence across markets.
The fintech company said it’s paying $297 million for a majority stake in Tidal, a music streaming service.
“TIDAL attracted high-profile artists to take ownership positions in the platform and market to their fans paid subscription tiers for exclusive content and high-quality streaming,” notes ARK analyst Max Friedrich.
Square + Streaming
ARKF member firms are companies that are powered by innovations, working to disintermediate or bypass the current financial markets and challenge traditional institutions by offering new solutions that are better, cheaper, faster, and more secure.
For Square and ARKF, there could be more than meets the eye with the Tidal deal. In fact, the music streaming service could fit well with Cash App – Square’s digital wallet.
Google Transformers: The Latest Tech Powering the ARKQ ETF
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ARK Autonomous Technology & Robotics ETF (CBOE: ARKQ) is one of the premier avenues for investors looking to access artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous technologies, among other disruptive themes.
As an actively managed fund, ARKQ isn’t constrained by indexes and can be more responsive to emerging AI trends, including transformers. Transformers are emerging as vital backbones in the AI space, but many competing funds lack adequate exposure.
“Pioneered by Google, Transformers is a new architecture that enables computers to understand language with unprecedented accuracy, as shown below on the right. Unlike prior language models that processed words sequentially, Transformers can discern connections between and among words in a sentence,” says ARK analyst James Wang.
ARK Still Reaping the Rewards of the Original Disruptive Tech
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ARK 3D Printing ETF (CBOE: PRNT) is one of the original disruptive technology exchange traded funds and thanks to some unique advances in 3D printing technologies, it remains a staple in the emerging growth lexicon.
PRNT is the first US-listed ETF dedicated to the 3D printing theme. The fund is one of two passively managed products from New York-based Ark Investment Management. ARK believes 3D printing will revolutionize manufacturing by collapsing the time between design and production, reducing costs, and enabling greater design complexity, accuracy, and customization than traditional manufacturing.
Boosted by shelter-in-place orders due to the coronavirus pandemic, videogame equities and exchange funds like the
NERD seeks to track the total return performance of the Roundhill BITKRAFT Esports Index, which tracks the performance of the common stock of exchange-listed companies across the globe that earn revenue from electronic sports, or eSports related business activities.
“Video games have been around for over 50 years, and despite its age, the industry continues to not only grow but also evolve,” writes Morningstar analyst Neil Macker. “During 2020, the pandemic and associated stay-at-home regulations provided a tailwind to the secular trends underpinning the growth of video games as well as some potential evolutionary shifts. The secular trends include the switch to digital downloads and microtransaction growth, with more evolutionary changes including subscription plans and cloud gaming.”