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Trillions
Money goes where it’s treated best. That simple truth is a big reason why more and more money (trillions, in fact) flows into a powerful, low-cost tool that’s quietly transformed investing. Exchange-traded funds let you invest in everything from the stock market to gold like never before. This biweekly podcast will demystify them—and hopefully delight you in the process.
Episodes
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The ETF Graveyard: This Has Been a Record Year for Closures
The ETF industry is on pace for another record year of launches. But there’s another record within reach: closures. About 250 funds have already been…
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New ETFs to Watch: A $2.5 Billion Launch, Anthropic and S&P 10,000, Anyone?
A new ETF seeded with $2.5 billion from the University of California's investment arm invests 90% in the S&P 500 and 10% in short-term bonds &mdash…
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Wall Street’s Plan to Make Sports an Investable Asset
In sports, wins and losses determine standings. Soon they could help determine something else: a price. A group of financial firms is trying to turn sports…
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Can Corgi Become the Walmart of ETFs?
Less than a year ago, Corgi Invest launched its first ETF. It now has more than 200, with hundreds more registered and potentially on the way. If they all make…
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The 80/20 Portfolio, Bipartisan Stocks and Slumpy Septembers
The 60/40 portfolio has been Investing 101 for generations. So why are ETF investors now closer to 80/20? Meanwhile, Republican and Democratic lawmakers don't…
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Want to Find the Next Nvidia? Here’s How to Watch What ‘Big Active’ Is Buying
A decade ago, Nvidia was the 387th-biggest stock in the market. Before it became the world’s most valuable company, some of the biggest active managers…
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New ETFs to Watch: MANGOS, Tax Tricks and Boring Bitcoin
What's a new way to invest in artificial intelligence? And what's the latest tax strategy for wealthy investors? There's no shortage of exchange-traded funds…
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Vanguard’s Plateau Is Exactly What Jack Bogle Wanted
Today, Vanguard is synonymous with low-cost index investing. But as the firm marks 50 years since the launch of the first index fund, something surprising has…
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An ETF for a Wild Oil Market
Oil has been one of the wildest trades of the year, surging and retreating as US tensions with Iran — and US President Donald Trump's endless hopes for a…
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Can You Put Sports Into an ETF Yet?
The ETF industry has packaged everything from stocks and bonds to Bitcoin and leveraged bets on individual companies. So why not your favorite sports team? New…
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Another ETF Triple Crown? Plus a Global Bull Market and More
The ETF industry had a record year in 2025. Somehow, 2026 is shaping up to be even bigger. More than $1 trillion has already poured into ETFs, launches…
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351 Conversions: Smart Tax Alpha Strategy or Loophole in the Code?
ETFs are already famous for their tax efficiency, but a growing corner of the market is pushing those benefits further than ever. What if you could sell a…
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New ETFs to Watch: A Nasdaq 100 Challenger, the SK Hynix Smackdown and…a Multi-Token Wildcard?
The ETF market is on pace for a record year - not just in the number of launches but also for the range of issuers entering the market. With competition…
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How Leveraged ETFs Became Wall Street's New Obsession
The confluence of single-stock ETFs and leverage has reached a fever pitch this year. Products tied to companies like SpaceX, Micron and SK Hynix are…
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Tokenization, Digital Twins and the Future of ETFs
Tokenization has been a Wall Street buzzword, only now it's becoming real. Beginning this summer, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation — a…
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Which ETF Won Big With Trump Accounts?
The new Trump Accounts are designed to give millions of American children a head start in the stock market. Besides the kids who are eligible for $1,000 in…
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Will the SEC Approve Prediction Market ETFs This Year?
The ETF wrapper has become investing's Swiss Army knife, packaging everything from stocks and bonds to gold and Bitcoin — and now, perhaps, even…
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New ETFs to Watch: 2x SpaceX, -3x AI, Plus Bonds and Bitcoin
SpaceX's record IPO quickly turned into a feeding frenzy in the ETF industry. Within days, about a dozen leveraged funds tied to the company — many of…
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Clash of the Titans: BlackRock and Vanguard LIVE
In the asset management industry, there are two undisputed heavyweights: BlackRock and Vanguard. They rival each other in almost every category, but this month…
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ETF of the Moment: Software Isn't Dead, Yet
Earlier this year, investors got hammered by the "SaaSpocalypse." The rise of AI sparked fears that software companies would need fewer workers, sell fewer…
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The Biggest IPO Ever Meets Passive Investing
SpaceX is finally going public — and at a valuation that's likely to make it one of the world's biggest companies the moment it hits the market. So what…
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New ETFs to Watch: POETs, HALOs and Corgis
The ETF universe keeps getting bigger - and weirder. This year is already on pace to shatter records for launches and inflows; it's also producing some of the…
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The Big Long: Risk and Reward With Ben Carlson
What if you invested at literally the worst possible moments in market history? According to Ben Carlson, the co-host of the Animal Spirits podcast and an…
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ETF of the Moment: A Budding Comeback for Cannabis
A long-dormant trade is suddenly showing signs of life. Prices are climbing. Volumes are spiking. And in a corner of the market that’s spent years in the…
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How to Invest During a Trump Presidency
Markets hate uncertainty — unless, it turns out, they don’t. Under US President Donald Trump, investors have endured tariff scares, geopolitical…
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ETFs to Watch From Morgan Stanley, Vanguard and ... Pzena?
Every day, a handful of new exchange-traded funds come to market. Some rocket to instant glory. Others take their time, building assets month after month, year…
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The Memory AI Trade
For a while, the artificial intelligence trade was almost comically simple: just buy Nvidia. But as the buildout of massive data centers accelerates, and the…
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Will Prediction Markets Come to ETFs?
Just when it feels like ETFs have done it all, along comes some filings that push the frontier. A trio of issuers wants to launch funds tied to prediction…
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That Mutual Fund Has an ETF Now
With each passing year, ETFs pull in trillions of dollars while mutual funds steadily bleed assets. And yet, mutual funds still hold more money overall. Now, a…
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The Complexity of the Oil Trade
As the US and Israel's attack of Iran has reminded the world, oil remains as integral as ever to the global economy. But the ETFs for investing in crude come…
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Freedom Has Paid Off For this Indie ETF
The Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF (FRDM) is having a moment. Launched seven years ago as a way to filter out autocratic emerging market countries and invest…
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Metal Mania
Gold and silver exchange-traded funds just experienced eye-popping trading volumes, with sharp price swings that drew in speculators chasing the momentum. The…
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How to Invest in Future Unicorn IPOs
Cathie Wood is best known for exchange-traded funds, especially her flagship ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK). But ARK also runs a less familiar product: the ARK…
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The Venezuela Factor: Why High-Yield, Emerging-Market Debt Is Having a Moment
Venezuela bonds were up 100% even before the US ousted President Nicolás Maduro. Then they went up another 30%. And one actively-managed exchange-traded…
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ETFs to Watch in 2026
To kick off the new year, Bloomberg Intelligence has its annual list of ETFs for your stocking-shaped portfolio. While these aren't buy or sell market…
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Invesco's ETF Playbook
Competing in the marketplace for exchange-traded funds — aka "The Terrordome" — is not for the faint of heart. It's like fighting a multi-front war…
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ETFs Win Triple Crown in 2025
2025 is arguably the single best year in ETF history as the industry has broken all-time records in the three primary categories: flows, launches and volume…
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The Best ETF Launch of 2025
So far this year, some 920 exchange-traded funds have launched in the US alone—a new record. Some are already juggernauts. Others are more about…
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Autocallable ETFs
You may not know the term autocallable, but you will. There’s a new type of high income ETF that tracks autocallable notes that yield 14% a year and is…
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Is Japan Back?
The election of Sanae Takaichi as Japan’s first woman prime minister is putting a new spotlight on the country. Markets expect the “Iron…
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Protecting Your Portfolio With ETFs
With so many assets at or near all-time highs, a rational investor might wonder how long can the good times last? And is now the time to consider an insurance…
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Climbing the Wealth Ladder with Nick Maggiulli
The “American dream” has always been about money: financial progression and building wealth. But for many the concept is slipping further and…
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Dividends Over Day Jobs: Income ETFs Become Huge Hit with Gen Z
Young people are looking for an easier way to accumulate wealth than working a 9-5 job for 40 years. This reluctance to follow the path of their elders has…
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Tour de Headlines: A Roundtable About Recent ETF Stories of Note
A relentless barrage of headlines in recent weeks have all centered on exchange-traded funds. For the first time, there are now more ETFs than stocks (4,300…
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Ether ETFs Finally Wake Up
Here’s a mind-blowing stat: the iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) is the fastest exchange-traded fund in history to hit the $10 billion mark outside of the…
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How JPMorgan Became Such a Force in Active ETFs
The ETF "Thunderdome" is an unforgiving and relentless environment. Which makes the exchange-traded funds from JPMorgan Asset Management so noteworthy. Led by…
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The 2025 ETF Mailbag
Joel, Eric and Athanasios Psarofagis crack open the mailbag to answer some listener questions about ETFs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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ETFs That Let You Invest in the Future
You just might be able to experience the financial future today. A recent trend in investing has exchange-traded fund issuers creating funds focused on…
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European Defense ETFs are the Break Out Theme of 2025
One of the hottest themes of 2025 is defense companies as potential US isolationism has other countries scrambling to beef up their military. And within that…
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Bye America Turns Into Buy America
The narrative all year was "sell America" yet the stock market is positive on the year and flirting with all time highs after coming back from a brutal Q1…
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How Not to Invest With Barry Ritholtz
In investing, there are many “rules.” And the rules are intended to help you, dear investor, make money. But if you’ve been around money…
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An Inside Look at the Trump SEC With Commissioner Hester Peirce
During her time as a commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Hester Peirce has often been a dissenting voice—especially on all things…
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The Future According to ETF Pros
It’s that time of the year. Exchange, the big exchange-traded fund conference, was held in Las Vegas this year and brought together many in the ETF…
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The Return of the Trump Put
In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day,” stock markets around the world plunged. Yet just 13 hours after…
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Black Hat vs White Hat ETFs
This is not your grandfather’s exchange-traded fund industry. What started as boring, predictable and passive has morphed into strategies and packaged…
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How First Trust Became a Quiet Force in ETFs
First Trust, the sixth-largest issuer of US exchange-traded funds, has managed to stay mostly under the radar in the investing world — and yet it's also…
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The Case for Europe
European stocks are off to a strong start this year—one of their best ever in fact and easily beating the US market. But can it last? Will US tech stocks…
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Captain America: A Brave New ETF World
There’s something special about the US stock market these days—it’s almost beyond comprehension how it keeps kicking out consistently big…
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A Quiet, Tax-Free Haven Is Braced for Change
Municipal bonds are the foundation of how American cities and states operate. And a big reason investors love “munis” is their tax-free status. But…
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Five ETF Predictions for 2025
Will the first private credit exchange-traded fund launch in 2025? How many new crypto-related ETFs will come to market this year? And how will the battle of…