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Abacus Life Completes the Rebranding of FCF Advisors with New ETF and Fee Reductions
February 19, 2025-Abacus Life, Inc. ("Abacus" or the "Company"), a pioneering global alternative asset manager specializing in leveraging longevity data and actuarial technology to offer uncorrelated investment opportunities, today announces the rebranding of FCF Advisors to Abacus FCF Advisors, a subsidiary of ABL Wealth.
This rebrand highlights the manager's position as a leader in free cash flow investing and analytics by pioneering the FCF Leaders Model, which serves as the foundation for the firm's quantitative investment process that identifies the most profitable companies. As part of the rebrand, Abacus FCF Advisors announced the launch of the Abacus FCF Small Cap Leaders ETF (ticker: ABLS), and management fee reductions of 5-10 basis points across all ETFs.
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Source: Abacus Life Settlements
Amplify ETFs Changes Fund Name to Highlight 12% Option Income Strategy: Amplify Bloomberg U.S. Treasury 12% Premium Income ETF (TLTP)
February 19, 2025-Amplify ETFs, a leading provider of innovative exchange-traded funds, emphasizes its 12% option income strategy by renaming the TLTP ETF to the Amplify Bloomberg U.S. Treasury 12% Premium Income ETF (formerly Amplify Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Target High Income ETF), effective today. The fund will continue trading under its existing CBOE ticker, TLTP.
The name change helps investors quickly recognize the fund's primary strategy to generate 12% annualized option premium income with a monthly scheduled distribution frequency. The fund provides convenient, efficient entry to a tailored weekly U.S. Treasury covered call option strategy via a single ticker and has the potential for additional U.S. Treasury bond income. There are no changes to the fund's investment strategy, structure or management.
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Source: Amplify ETFs
'A trillion-dollar tsunami': Canadians grapple with unprecedented wealth transfer
February 19, 2025-Aging baby boomers are passing down a record amount of money to their children
Canada is in the midst of an unprecedented transfer of wealth that experts say could have significant social and economic implications for the country.
The Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada said in 2023 that $1 trillion of wealth was expected to move between Canadian baby boomers and their millennial and Generation X children from 2023 to 2026.
Much of that money is the result of real estate wealth, as many baby boomers have benefited from sharply rising home prices and other investments.
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Source: cbc.ca
Introducing OOSB & OOQB- A New Way to Leverage with Dual Index Exposure Designed for Investors Seeking Exposure to Bitcoin Price Movements without Sacrificing Their Core Portfolio
February 19, 2025-Today, the One+One™ S&P 500 and Bitcoin ETF (Ticker: OOSB) and the One+OneTM Nasdaq-100(R) and Bitcoin ETF (Ticker: OOQB) will be live and trading on all major brokerage platforms.
Volatility Shares' new line of One+One ETFs offer a capital efficient form of leverage by providing 100% exposure to two separate asset classes.
OOSB offers 100% exposure to the S&P 500 and 100% exposure to Bitcoin. OOQB offers 100% exposure to the Nasdaq-100 and 100% exposure to Bitcoin. With One+One ETFs, you get 200% total market exposure (100% to each asset) using only 100% of your capital, effectively providing 2x leverage across two different asset classes.
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Source: volatilityshares.com
Vanguard Overtakes State Street as World's Biggest ETF
February 18, 2025-Vanguard's VOO has raked in $23 billion so far this year
It's not the first time that SPY's crown has slipped
Vanguard has unseated State Street for the title of the world's biggest exchange-traded fund, ushering in a new world order for the $11 trillion industry.
The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (ticker VOO) now commands nearly $632 billion in assets after raking in some $23 billion so far in 2025, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That haul has vaulted VOO past the $630 billion SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, known as SPY, which previously held the title of largest ETF.
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Source: bloomberg.com
Coinbase Launches Solana, Hedera Futures Contracts for US Traders
February 18, 2025-Coinbase's derivatives arm said that it now offers CFTC-regulated futures contracts covering Solana and Hedera.
Coinbase said on Tuesday that its derivatives exchange now offers futures contracts for Solana (SOL) and Hedera (HBAR), expanding its suite of products to cover more cryptocurrencies with pending applications for spot ETFs in the U.S.
Regulated by the CFTC, Coinbase said in a blog post that the exchange's derivatives arm now offers futures contracts for 19 total assets, including Dogecoin, Litecoin and gold, among other altcoins.
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Source: decrypt.co
Wedbush Enters the ETF Market
February 18, 2025-Wedbush, a Los Angeles-based financial services firm with global reach, and a legacy of innovation and client-focused investment solutions, introduces Wedbush Fund Advisers and announces its entry into the rapidly growing exchange-traded fund (ETF) market.
This milestone marks an expansion of Wedbush's commitment to cutting-edge investment solutions and highly curated product development.
A Strategic Expansion into ETFs
ETFs continue to be one of the fastest-growing segments of the investment management industry, with actively managed and rules-based index ETFs seeing increased adoption by institutional and retail investors alike.
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Source: Wedbush
Fund managers boost exposure to bitcoin ETFs, quarterly US filings show
February 17, 2025-The State of Wisconsin Investment Board disclosed in its quarterly 13-F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its bitcoin ETF holdings more than doubled in the final three months of last year.
Asset managers, ranging from wealth management companies to hedge funds and pension funds, boosted allocations to U.S. exchange-traded funds tied to the price of bitcoin in the fourth quarter of 2024, as the price of the world's largest cryptocurrency soared 47%, according to recent regulatory filings.
The State of Wisconsin Investment Board disclosed in its quarterly 13-F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission that its bitcoin ETF holdings more than doubled in the final three months of last year, to 6 million shares of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF by December 31.
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Source: zawya.com
Calamos Announces Upside Cap Ranges for Upcoming Structured Protection ETFs Providing Exposure to S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 with 100% Downside Protection Over One Year
February 14, 2025-The Calamos S&P 500 Structured Alt Protection ETF-March (CPSR) has an estimated upside cap range 7.29%-7.65% over the one-year outcome period following its launch on March 3, 2025.
Calamos Nasdaq-100 Structured Alt Protection ETF-March (CPNM), has an estimated upside cap range of 8.00%-8.26% over the one-year outcome period following its launch on March 3, 2025.
Calamos Investments LLC ("Calamos"), a leading alternatives manager, today announced the estimated upside cap-ranges for the Calamos S&P 500 Structured Alt Protection ETF-March (CPSR), and the Calamos Nasdaq-100 Structured Alt Protection ETF-March (CPNM), each providing 100% downside-protected exposure to their respective indexes with attractive upside cap ranges over a one-year outcome period, before fees and expenses.
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Source: Calamos Investments
Hashdex Announces Launch of Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF (Ticker: NCIQ), Offering US Investors Exposure to Bitcoin and Ether Through a Single Product
February 14, 2025-Product structured to provide crypto asset exposure by tracking the Nasdaq Crypto US, Index (NCIUS), a benchmark for institutional investment in certain market-leading crypto assets
Hashdex and Nasdaq Global Indexes continue to be at the forefront of crypto index product innovation, offering investors and wealth managers access to the first multi-asset spot crypto ETP in the United States
Hashdex Asset Management Ltd. ("Hashdex"), a leading global crypto-focused asset manager, and Nasdaq Global Indexes, which has been creating innovative, transparent indexes for more than 50 years, today announced the launch of the Hashdex Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF (the "Product" or "NCIQ") [Ticker: NCIQ], the first multi-asset spot crypto exchange traded product ("ETP") available to U.S. investors. The Product, which is now trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market under ticker NCIQ, currently offers exposure to both spot bitcoin ("BTC") and ether ("ETH"). NCIQ’s management fee is contractually set at 0.25% per annum of the daily net asset value ("NAV") of the Product through the end of 2025, and then 0.50% thereafter.
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Source: Hashdex AG