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The new wave of active ETFs is not built around traditional stock-picking. It is built around income generation, downside protection, and derivatives-based outcomes. The derivative-income category posted the most net inflows of any ETF category in all of 2025 (Morningstar Direct, as of December 31, 2025). Investors are not abandoning discipline on fees. They are increasingly willing to pay for strategies beyond traditional low-cost beta. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ghj8cZz6

Global EQD kicks off today - and Tidal is on the ground! If you're at the conference, come find us. And make sure you catch Tidal's Steve Foy on the panel tomorrow: Building the Future of ETFs – Growth Opportunities and Distribution Challenges 🗓️ May 21 | 11:15 – 11:50 AM #GlobalEQD #ETFs #TidalETF #TheETFMasters

Last Week in ETFs, from Tidal Financial Group.   Income is still the dominant selling point — but the structures delivering it have moved well beyond covered calls. Autocallables, buffered exposures, and multi-leg derivatives are now standard. The ETF wrapper has absorbed the structured product shelf. Strategies once gated behind private banks now sit next to broad index funds on the same screen.   The operational implication is real. Running a derivative-based fund inside a 1940 Act wrapper requires daily exposure checks, diversification monitoring, and execution precision that a passive index portfolio never demanded. Outcome ETF AUM has grown 54x since 2019 — from $5B to $272B. The infrastructure behind a fund now matters as much as the investment thesis in front of it.   Full breakdown in this week's 'Last Week in ETFs'.   #ETFs #ActiveETFs #DefinedOutcome #AssetManagement #ETFIndustry

The IPO market is back, and the ETF industry is running ahead of it.   Tesla waited over 12 years from IPO to its first 2x ETF (TSLL, Direxion). CoreWeave waited 136 days (CRWG, Leverage Shares). Circle waited 68 (CRCG, Leverage Shares). SpaceX and Anthropic now have 2x ETFs filed before either company is public (REX Shares and Tuttle, March 2026)    That compression did not happen by accident. SPY launched in 1993 under a custom SEC permission letter that took years to secure. In 2019, the SEC replaced the letters with a standing rule. In 2020, leveraged products were folded inside it. In 2022, single-stock ETFs slipped through because the framework left room for ETFs that did not track an index. In 2026, pre-IPO filings arrived because the framework left room for an underlying that was not yet public.   The compounded result is product design that now runs ahead of the issuance calendar, with issuers racing to plant a flag on coveted tickers.   The ETF ecosystem always fascinates and is continuously evolving.  

The AI investment narrative is evolving, and the next phase looks very different from the last one. For two years, the trade has been concentrated in end-user applications and a handful of mega-cap names. That story is maturing. The real bottleneck, and the real opportunity, is now in the ecosystem that makes AI possible. Compute. Power. Cooling. Data enablement. The picks and shovels of the digital economy. As Jay Pestrichelli, our Chief Trading Officer, puts it: the AI story is shifting from the application layer to the infrastructure. #ETFs #AssetManagement #WealthManagement #ArtificialIntelligence #TidalFinancialGroup

Active ETF launches have climbed from 38% of all new issuance in 2018 to 87% so far in 2026 (Morningstar Direct, as of March 8, 2026). The trend suggests active structures are increasingly common for new product creation, with passive launches representing a smaller share of what comes to market. For issuers bringing complex strategies to market, the infrastructure required to build and manage these products has never mattered more. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ghj8cZz6 #ETFs #ETFInvesting #WealthManagement #FinancialServices #AssetManagement #Investing

Meet the Masters | Week 1: Gavin Filmore, CEO, Tidal Financial Group Gavin brings 20 years of financial markets experience to a firm that's rewriting what's possible in the ETF space. Under his leadership, Tidal has become the go-to platform for new ETF issuers looking to enter the market. His conviction is grounded in a simple but powerful premise — that the ETF is the first true direct-to-consumer financial product. And Tidal has operationalized that belief, building a platform that takes ideas and brings them to market with speed and precision. Innovation at this pace doesn't happen by accident. It's led. Stay tuned every week as we spotlight the leaders behind Tidal Financial Group. #MeetTheMasters #TidalFinancialGroup #ETFs #Innovation #Leadership

Our very own Steve Foy, SVP of Trading & Portfolio Management at Tidal Financial Group, will be taking the stage as a panelist at Global EQD 2026! If you're heading to the conference, don't miss his session: Panel: Building the Future of ETFs – Growth Opportunities and Distribution Challenges 📅 May 21 | 11:15 – 11:50 AM If you're attending Global EQD, this is a session worth prioritizing. Steve's deep experience in ETF trading and portfolio management makes him uniquely positioned to speak to the evolving dynamics of distribution and growth in today's market. See you there! #GlobalEQD2026 #ETFs #TIDAL #TheETFMasters #ETFInvesting #PanelDiscussion

Last Week in ETFs, from Tidal Financial Group. Tech gained 10.1% last week while simultaneously bleeding $2.3B in outflows. Semis led with AI & Big Data ETFs up 10.7%. Energy was the only loser, down 6.6%. But the macro story is bigger: US-listed ETFs have absorbed over $600B in 2026 through April - on pace for a $2T annual record. And thematic ETFs are the ones turning heads. After three straight years of outflows, they've taken in $11B YTD. The fastest-growing thematic ETF in history launched April 2nd, hit $5B in five weeks, and pulled in $1.1B in a single day. Source: CNBC, Bloomberg Intelligence. Via Tidal × Last Week in ETFs. #ETFs #Investing #ThematicInvesting #AI #AssetManagement

Brittany Christensen, SVP Head of Business Development at Tidal Financial Group, joined Scarlet Fu and Eric Balchunas on Bloomberg ETF IQ to unpack the new $100 trading fee Fidelity and Schwab are rolling out on certain ETFs — why now, and what it means for the industry. #ETFs #ETFInvesting #WealthManagement #FinancialServices #AssetManagement #Investing