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RAFI Fundamental Indexing: An Interview With Rob Arnott
Meta: Learn how RAFI fundamental indexing offers an alternative to market-cap weighting in this interview with Rob Arnott and TMX VettaFi.
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Supply & Contracting Drive Uranium’s Long-Term Fundamentals
Uranium has been on quite a journey over the past few years. While the metal has always been valued for its role in nuclear energy, interest from governments, as well as the broader investment base, has noticeably impro…
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Port of Los Angeles posts high July volume, helped by retail goods, AI project parts
Import cargo volume at the nation’s major container ports is expected to steadily decline for the rest of the year amid rising tariffs.
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Crude Stockpiles Unexpectedly Decline, Indicating Stronger Demand
Gold prices slipped by 0.52% to settle at 1,53,152, as easing geopolitical tensions reduced safe-haven demand. Optimism around a potential U.S.-Iran peace deal, along with comments from Donald Trump suggesting the confl…
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Turn on the Lights to the Utilities Spending Boom With This ETF
Domestic for-profit utilities are spending big to meet the artificial intelligence (AI) demand moment. Regulatory Research Associates estimates that from 2026 through 2030, U.S. utilities will shell out a staggering $1.…
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How RANK Blends Analyst Consensus With Technical Signals
Finding promising stocks isn’t as simple as either following a stock’s price or looking at analyst ratings. It requires both. Investors need to understand why analysts like a company and whether the stock is gaining mom…
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Tackle Interest Rate Uncertainty With Structured Credit
Should advisors and investors be taking a closer look at the opportunity set within structured credit right now? After all, the current fixed income environment may well work in favor of the structured credit market.
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Balance China’s Shifting Lithium Market With the BATT ETF
Recent price forecasts from BMI, a Fitch Solutions company, highlighted notable market trends in mainland China’s lithium market. BMI revised its forecasts for China lithium carbonate to $20,100 per ton and lithium hydr…
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Gold Mining ETFs: Poised to Outshine Gold
Gold’s outlook has brightened considerably following its first-half correction. Spot prices have rebounded to flirt with $4,400 per ounce, supported by renewed central-bank buying, softer economic data, and diminished e…
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Bitcoin: A Low-Volume Lull While the Macro Backdrop Is Quietly Turning
Bitcoin remains caught in a summer lull. Daily volumes are running at $4B per day on trusted exchanges, with similarly subdued activity across equities and other risk assets. In thin markets relatively small flows have …
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Bet on a Broadcom Bounce With This ETF
Last Friday, shares of semiconductor giant Broadcom (AVGO) dipped nearly 6% on reports of a security vulnerability pertaining to the company’s VMware vCenter Syslog Server. Concerns about the state of the artificial int…
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Clients Want Crypto? Active ETP TKNZ Is a 1-Stop Shop
While it doesn’t necessarily dominate the headlines as much as it has in past years, crypto remains an area of significant interest and opportunity. Spot ETPs are available now for investors to better triangulate their …
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Quality & Rate Protection in a Single Bond ETF
Investing is often a reminder that there are no free lunches. For market participants to get something, they have to give up something, too. The fixed income universe embodies that sentiment. Want big yields? Chances ar…
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2Q26 Midstream/MLP Buybacks: Momentum Continues
Quarterly equity repurchases for midstream MLPs and corporations remained healthy in 2Q26, keeping pace with first-quarter levels. Cheniere Energy (LNG) spent $550 million on buybacks, and familiar players also used the…
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3 Small-Cap ETFs to Watch as Russell 2000 Hits Record
The Russell 2000 closed at a new record high Friday amid continued upwards momentum for several market indexes. That index, with its focus on small-caps, could prove an intriguing source of investing opportunities, give…
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Thematic ETFs Dominated Last Week’s Top Stories
The week ended August 14 saw readers on ETF Database and ETF Trends turn mainly to stories focused on thematic ETFs, all of which involved ETFs addressing concerns that are top of mind for investors at the moment.
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Breaking the AUM Mold: Separating Planning From Investments
In this episode, Brendan sits down with financial advisor Adam Wojtkowski to unpack a major shift he’s making in his business: separating financial planning from investment management into two distinct offerings—and in …
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How Active Finance ETF FDFF Has Delivered on Key Milestone
The ETF landscape grows every day, with new active and passive strategies available for investors to use. Those funds range from core allocations to bespoke, thematic offerings. How, then, should investors parse that po…
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Small Caps, Big Opportunities: Consider Value Amid Rally
Small-cap equities are winning out against their large-cap counterparts in a classic David versus Goliath ETF battle. After years of mega-cap technology dominance, small-cap equities have delivered investors a historic …
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The Bottlenecks of the Nuclear Fuel & Supply Chain
While there is no shortage of demand from the nuclear renaissance, the rate of deploying new reactors will be determined by the capacity of the supply chain. Expanding capacity for supply chain bottlenecks, such as pump…
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AI Infrastructure Trade Still Alive. Seize It with SOXL
There’s no denying that artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure equities endured a rough stretch in July and “rough” might even be an understatement. However, traders shouldn’t write off the sector just yet because …
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Malaysia’s July CPI rises 1.8% y/y, slightly less than forecast
KUALA LUMPUR (July 24): Malaysia’s headline inflation, which came unchanged year-on-year at 2% in June, is projected to remain steady for the rest of 2024, on the muted impact from the recent diesel subsidy rationalisat…
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German companies cut US investment to three-year low, data show
August 16, 2026, 1:15 PM EDT. Executives told CoinDesk that crypto allocators are evaluating tokens based on revenue, user activity and value extraction instead of using market capitalization as a quality metric. Winter…
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VanEck’s Top 10 Income ETFs Ranked by ETF Yields
Many investors need more than traditional bonds can deliver. VanEck provides access to a range of higher-yielding asset classes built for today’s income environment. Key Takeaways With a 13.46% yield, MORT provides broa…