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Vanguard index product becomes first ETF to top trillion in assets

Vanguard index product becomes first ETF to top $1 trillion in assets

Published by Sam Flores

ORLANDO, Florida, June 3 : The Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, the index investing pioneer’s flagship exchange-traded product, became the first in the history of ETFs to reach and exceed $1 trillion in assets, the investment firm confirmed on Wednesday. The Vanguard fund hit this milestone, the latest record in the remarkable ascent of exchange-traded funds, on Tuesday, less than 18 months after overtaking State Street Investment Management’s SPDR S&P 500 ETF in assets, as investors looking for broad market exposure also sought out the lowest-cost funds. VOO levies a management fee of only 0.03 per cent, compared to 0.09 per cent for the State Street fund, which now is third in the three-way race between those two firms and BlackRock Inc.. BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has the second-largest ETF tracking the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, with its iShares Core S&P 500 ETF that now boasts $860 billion in assets and fees of 0.03 per cent, according to VettaFi. SPY, the market pioneer that helped open up the ETF market with its 1993 launch, …

Jane Street Slashes Bitcoin ETF Holdings, Adds Ether Funds In Q1 2026

Jane Street Slashes Bitcoin ETF Holdings, Adds Ether Funds In Q1 2026

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Helen Partz via CoinTelegraph.com, Wall Street market maker Jane Street reduced its exposure to Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the first quarter of 2026 while increasing positions in Ether funds. Jane Street cut major Bitcoin ETF holdings in Q1 2026, including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund (FBTC), according to a 13F filing published Tuesday. IBIT holdings fell about 71% from Q4 2025 to roughly 5.9 million shares valued at about $225 million, while FBTC dropped about 60% to around 2 million shares worth roughly $115 million. At the same time, Jane Street increased its exposure to Ether (ETH) ETFs, nearly doubling its position in BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust (ETHA) and sharply raising its stake in Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH), adding about $82 million combined across the two products over the quarter. The move comes amid early signs of institutional Ether ETF buying in early 2026, including increased exposure reported at Wells Fargo. The filing points to a reshuffling of Jane Street’s reportable crypto-linked holdings at quarter-end, though 13F disclosures do not show …

US retail investors fuel surge in leveraged ETF trading, study shows

US retail investors fuel surge in leveraged ETF trading, study shows

Published by Sam Flores

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb 24: Nearly 90 per cent of all the trading in leveraged single-stock ETFs in the U.S. market can be traced to transactions by  individual investors, according to a new study co-authored by Direxion, a provider of those ETFs, together with two analytical firms, Vanda Research and The Compound Insights. The data shows that the proliferation of these exchange-traded vehicles, which allow investors to speculate on short-term moves in an underlying stock, has been almost entirely driven by their allure for these retail investors. The study also found that last year trading in the leveraged single-stock ETFs accounted for 8 per cent of total trading on all U.S. exchanges. “The vast number of launches illustrates the market’s growing reliance on speculation,” said Bryan Armour, an ETF analyst at Morningstar. According to data from Morningstar Direct, there are now 355 leveraged single-stock ETFs listed in the United States, all but 80 of which have been launched since January 2025.  “Interest in trading the volatility in markets has grown and competition has grown” among …