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(Reuters) -BlackRock Inc posted a smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly profit on Thursday as strong demand for exchange-traded funds and other low-risk products cushioned the hit to fee income from a global market rout. The threat of a recession, rapidly rising interest rates and the Ukraine crisis have slammed both bonds and stocks this year, keeping investors on the back foot in a blow to businesses such as BlackRock. The company’s assets under management (AUM) dropped 16% year-on-year to… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Stock dip-buyers across the ETF world have vanished after seeing their account balances ravaged too many times in the 2022 meltdown. Most Read from Bloomberg Three times, to be specific. That’s the number of 5% bounces that have failed to endure in the S&P 500 this year — luring billions of dollars to exchange-traded funds in every rebound. Not this time. As the S&P 500 jumped more than 6% through Friday from its 2022 trough, roughly $10 billion was pulled out of equity funds,… Source link

Facebook parent Meta (FB) wants to be the first company you think of when you hear the word metaverse, the nascent 3-D virtual world that could be the future of the internet. Heck, it’s why Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the social media giant’s name to Meta in late 2021. But according to Subversive Capital founder and CIO Michael Auerbach, Zuckerberg’s efforts will fall flat. “We actually believe that Meta isn’t the company that’s building out the Metaverse,” Auerbach told… Source link

Investors in the Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) have been fed through the wringer this year, as Cathie Wood’s flagship disruption fund is already down 22% — whipsawing investors in both directions. Of the 44 components of the fund, including Tesla (TSLA), Shopify (SHOP), Zoom Video (ZM), none are currently up on the year — leaving investors to lick their wounds. Since the ARKK topped out just shy of $160 nearly one year ago, rallies have become increasingly short-lived — such as last week’s… Source link

With every new year comes a clean slate. For Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest, that doesn’t seem to be the case. The firm’s beaten-down Ark Innovation Fund (ARKK) has hit a new low in 2022 — already. After shedding 7% in Wednesday’s sell-off, the fund is down 9% this week so far and 45% from its peak in February 2021, with the decline marking its worst drawdown since inception in 2014. A rout in growth-oriented stocks that has battered ARKK was made worse on Wednesday as investors mulled the… Source link

It’s been a blockbuster year for ETFs, with over $900 billion in flows to the space. Dave Nadig, CIO and director of research at ETF Trends, discusses the big moments in ETFs and what to expect looking forward into 2022 on Yahoo Finance’s “ETF Report.” With nearly $670 billion going into primarily U.S. equities, one of the biggest stories wasn’t actually a story at all; big, cheap beta was the name of the ETF game for 2021…. Source link

With 2021 ending up as a landmark year for ETF inflows (just past $900 billion), there’s plenty to look at as far as what worked out the best for investors and which funds were less of a success. ETF Trends’ CEO, Tom Lydon, was on hand to go over some of these various funds on Yahoo Finance’s “ETF Report.” As far as what brought investors into the game, as Lydon explains, it came down to the market continuing to surprise… Source link

A new exchange traded fund (ETF) is trying to capture the white-hot market for non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in one financial product.  But the catch is that it won’t actually own any NFTs, crypto assets or related derivatives. Listed under the symbol “NFTZ” by issuer Defiance ETFs, the Defiance Digital Revolution ETF launches Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange’s Arca platform. The fund owns shares in publicly traded blockchain-related companies like Coinbase (COIN), in addition to those… Source link

The hot demand for investment securities linked to bitcoin does not appear to be moving the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s stance toward other products more directly linked to the cryptocurrency. SEC Chair Gary Gensler said he still has concerns about investor protection in the $2.5 trillion market for crypto assets. “Investors aren’t protected the way they are, whether they go into the stock or bonds markets that we’ve overseen so long,” said Gensler at Yahoo Finance’s… Source link

A milestone week that began with the introduction of the first Bitcoin-based exchange traded fund (ETF) ended just as it began — with a new fund based on the world’s leading cryptocurrency.  On Friday, digital asset manager Valkyrie launched its Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BTF) on the Nasdaq exchange. The company anticipates its fund will be the first of at least a couple more, as big and small investors flock to crypto investments. Valkyrie’s Bitcoin ETF followed the debut of the Proshares… Source link