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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 settle the argument. I approached the nearest person and simply asked, “Have you ever heard of an E...

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 companies associated with the mining of cryptocurrencies rather than in cryptocurrencies themselves. The ...

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. forum WallStreetBets last month. But that doesn't mean that ETFs are immune from coordinated actio...

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 influential economist of all-time. Needless to say, Fama has quite the resume and it’s not a bad p...