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2024
2/16/2024	Getting Broader and Smaller in 2024
2023
11/17/2023	With More Renewable Projects in Limbo, Are Grid Investments Still Needed?
8/28/2023	Monetizing Risk with Call-Writing ETFs
5/12/2023	Principles for Thematic Investing in Volatile Markets
2/8/2023	Inside First Trust ETFs: Is the Era of S&P 500 Index Invincibility Over?
2022
10/25/2022	Hopeful Signs Emerging for the Biotechnology Industry
8/11/2022	Short-Term Weakness may Provide an Attractive Entry Point for Investors in Energy ETFs
5/25/2022	Heightened Volatility Yields a Resurgence for Dividend ETFs
3/3/2022	Is it Too Late to Allocate to Commodities ETFs?
2021
11/15/2021	Can Adaptive Factor Rotation Add Value?
8/16/2021	Near-term Catalysts May Provide Opportunity in Water
5/14/2021	Diversifying Risk Management with Target Outcome ETFs®– Buffer Series
2/5/2021	Seeking Alpha with Thematic ETFs
2020
10/16/2020	What’s Fueling the Rise in Green Energy ETFs?
7/17/2020	Navigating a Pandemic with Thematic ETFs
5/13/2020	As Dividends Become Scarcer, Will they Become More Valued?
2/13/2020	Cybersecurity Comes to the Forefront in 2020
2019
10/28/2019	Superior Tax-Efficiency Supports Continued Migration to ETFs
8/14/2019	ETFs with the Potential for Capturing the "New Listing" Premium
5/2/2019	Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
2/12/2019	Consider the Less Expensive Defensive Trade
2018
11/14/2018	GICS Sector Reshuffle Exacerbates Top-Heavy Concentration For Certain Sectors
8/23/2018	Two Paths for ETF Growth
6/5/2018	What’s Driving the Recovery In Biotechnology ETFs?
2/14/2018	Alpha, Expenses, and the Shift from Active to Passive
2017
12/1/2017	Actively Managed Fixed Income ETFs Gain Marketshare
8/9/2017	Prospects Improve For European Equity ETFs
5/11/2017	The Value of Dividend Growth
2/9/2017	Diversifying Alpha with Strategy ETFs
2016
11/7/2016	Money Market Reform and the Opportunity for Enhanced Cash ETFs
8/16/2016	Broad Commodity ETFs Gain Traction in Q2: Will the Trend Continue?
5/23/2016	Three-Year Anniversary for the Largest Actively Managed High Yield ETF
2/5/2016	Robust Growth for Municipal Bond ETFs in 2015
2015
11/18/2015	The Return of Volatility and the Case for Earnings Quality
8/5/2015	Strategy ETFs Continue to Gain Ground
5/5/2015	A Snapshot of Q1 Flows and Trends
1/28/2015	Two Trillion Dollars and Counting…
2014
11/10/2014	Technology Dividends — A Missing Ingredient
8/4/2014	2014: Halftime Trends for ETFs
6/20/2014	Signs of Life for Commodity ETFs
3/26/2014	AlphaDEX® and "Smart Beta"
1/24/2014	2013 - A Strong Year for ETFs
2013
11/8/2013	The Case for Managed Futures ETFs
9/23/2013	A Decade of Low Volatility with High Dividends
7/11/2013	Equity Income ETFs and the Importance of Dividend Growth
5/6/2013	Navigating Opportunities in Senior Loan and High Yield Corporate Bond ETFs
1/29/2013	Rethinking IPOs
2012
11/28/2012	Don't Miss the Forest for the Trees: Opportunity in Cloud Computing
9/18/2012	Technology Dividends: Oxymoron No More
7/27/2012	Does Your Energy Infrastructure Fund Suffer
5/17/2012	The Case for Community Banks in 2012
2/27/2012	ETF Deathwatch List Revisited
2/7/2012	Driving Forward: A Case for Autos in 2012
2011
10/11/2011	Innovation Fueling Growth: The Case for Natural Gas
7/25/2011	Biotechnology - Then and Now 2011
4/28/2011	Commodity ETFs in 2011
2/4/2011	Equity Income Investments for 2011
2010
10/1/2010	Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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