Lara

Lara Crigger is the editor-in-chief for ETF Database and its sister site, ETF Trends.

Recent Content By Lara Crigger
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3 Trends Dominating Fund Flows Right Now

Interpreting flows into ETFs and mutual funds sometimes feels an awful lot like reading tea...

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2023's Overactive Active ETF Flows Are Largely a Mirage

And, plenty of ink has been spilled about how much money has gone into active ETFs in 2023, and...

Thematic Investing Channel

Marijuana ETFs Rise – and Fall – on Regulatory Hopes

Like any recovering reporter, I like to keep tabs on my old beats, and the marijuana ETF space...

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VettaFi's Top ETF News & Research Reads: Week of March 17, 2023

Looking for something to read over the weekend? Here are the week’s most-read ETF- and...

Disruptive Technology Channel

Rising ETF Stars: Who’s Afraid Of AI ETFs?

Investors are flocking to artificial intelligence (AI) ETFs, as well as short-duration Treasuries...

Disruptive Technology Channel

VettaFi’s ETF Rising Stars: January 2023

Which research themes and topics are trending among advisors? That’s the focus of my talk at ...

Managed Futures Channel

VettaFi’s Rising ETF Stars of 2022

Single-stock leveraged ETFs. Anti-ESG funds. Influencer-backed ETFs. As an ETF watcher, 2022...

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Vettafi's Top 10 Stories of 2022

It’s that time of year again, when we reflect on where we’ve gone and how far we’ve come. When I...

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VettaFi Voices Discuss Inflation Numbers

The topic du jour blowing up the VettaFi Slack is yesterday’s inflation data. While the latest...

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These 10 ETFs Were Last Week's Top Performers: Oct 3, 2022

These were the best-performing ETFs for the week ending Sept. 30, 2022. NOTE: We’ve...

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ETF Issuer League Table: Week of 9/30/2022

The ETF industry moves fast. Each week, we run the numbers on the ETF industry, and tally up the...

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Post-Exchange Ruminations: ETFs, Honestly

The vibe at Exchange was nothing I could have expected.

Crypto Channel

Caitlin Cook: What to Know About Bitcoin Futures ETFs

Few FinTwit folks know more about crypto than Caitlin Cook. As the head of community and vice...

Future ETFs Channel

Steve Sachs: ESG Investing Must Go Beyond Exclusions

As climate change proves to be as much a financial risk as an existential one, investors have...

Nasdaq Portfolio Solutions Channel

Ben Jones: What People Should Know About Cybersecurity

The spookiest thing about October isn’t ghosts or goblins, but cybersecurity threats. Recent...

Future ETFs Channel

Cole Feinberg: Consider Innovative Tech "Sectors 2.0"

The world is changing at a rapid pace, and technology is becoming increasingly woven into the...

Crypto Channel

ProShares' Simeon Hyman on the Bitcoin Futures ETF

The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF (BITO) launched today after issuers spent years of effort to...

Crypto Channel

Three Huge Benefits of a Bitcoin Futures ETF

A futures-based Bitcoin ETF is coming — and not in a theoretical sense, either. This morning, ...

Core Strategies Channel

Matt Lewis: Advisors Shouldn’t Be Scared of Small ETFs

All too often, newer or smaller ETFs are stuck flying under the radar. Even if an ETF exhibits...

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Foothill Transforms Cannabis Mutual Fund to ETF

On Monday, Sept. 27, ETF newcomer Foothill Capital Management completed the conversion of its...

Big Ideas Channel

Investing with Principle and Conviction: A Q&A with Putnam Investments

This spring, long-time mutual fund issuer Putnam Investments debuted its first ETFs, based on...

Innovative ETFs Channel

Kathy Kriskey: There’s Still Time to Invest in Commodities ETFs

Commodities have had a heck of a year so far. Between investor optimism over the reopening...

Worried about Inflation? Consider Royalty Companies, 'INFL'

The Horizon Kinetics Inflation Beneficiaries ETF (INFL B), which launched in January, quickly has...

Dividend Channel

Ryan Krueger: How to Turn Dividend Growth into Your 'Freedom Day'

At first, Ryan Krueger doesn’t come off as particularly revolutionary. The co-founder and CEO of...

Innovative ETFs Channel

Invesco Launches 3 Out Low-Cost Multi-Factor ETFs

On Wednesday June 30, Invesco launched three new low-cost ETFs that track multi-factor indices...

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Roundhill Releases First-Of-Its-Kind Metaverse ETF, META

On June 30, Roundhill Investments, the issuer behind thematic tech funds like the Roundhill...

Active ETF Channel

Chris Dillon: Expect a "Sequenced," Not Synchronized Recovery

It’s the question on everyone’s mind: what happens next? As the global economy continues to...

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ETFMG Launches Its First Leveraged, Inverse ETFs

On June 16, ETF Managers Group launched its first leveraged and inverse products, including a 2x...

Crypto Channel

VanEck Files For First Ethereum ETF in US

On Friday, VanEck filed for the first ethereum ETF in the U.S., a companion application to their...

Crypto Channel

Racing to the First Bitcoin ETF

Eight years ago, the first Bitcoin ETF application was filed. Then rejected. Then filed for...

Acruence Capital Launches First ETF, XVOL

On Thursday, ETF newcomer Acruence Capital launched its first fund, the Acruence Active Hedge...