Price of bitcoin: Bitcoin market cap: Market cap comparison: Bitcoin hashrate: Bitcoin transactions per day: Bitcoin exchange app downloads: Bitcoin tweets per day: “Bitcoin” google searches: Less than 3% of bitcoin addresses…
Recently, I’ve seen lot of financial media and industry chatter regarding ETF costs – only not in the way you might expect. Instead of the usual talk about ETFs lowering the cost of investing or how ETF providers are ripping…
“The growth of ETFs in U.S. capital markets is a textbook case study in ‘Disruptive Innovation,’ right alongside well-known historical examples like Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix and scores of others successful enterprises.” – Nick Colas of ConvergEx ETFs have…
In partnership with Brown Brothers Harriman, ETF.com conducts an annual survey of ETF investors (primarily investment advisors). I would call this the “Cadillac” of ETF surveys given the well-informed ETF audience trafficking ETF.com. Their fifth annual survey was released today…
The investment industry has coined a phrase for what happens when Vanguard moves into a particular ETF category – it’s called The Vanguard Effect®. Known for their rock bottom ETF costs, once Vanguard decides to enter a particular asset class…
While year-to-date ETF flows are nearly 40% above their previous annual record and have surpassed the best year of inflows ever for mutual funds, the financial media seems strangely obsessed with ETF closures. Some recent headlines: > Say hello to…
Bloomberg recently launched a new ETF-focused TV show, ETF IQ, which includes a segment called “There’s an ETF for that”. In the latest episode, the show spotlighted a rare earth metals ETF. The prior week, a video game ETF was…
Perhaps the one question I get more than any other these days is, “What is bitcoin and should I buy it?”. A close second is, “Why do you keep talking about bitcoin?!?”. The fact that I keep hearing the first…
Investing has long been a fascination of mine. As a 12-year old, I remember learning the magic of compounding – that money could make money, and that newly earned money could earn money of its own. I was hooked. I…
