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Thematic Thursday: Real Assets Leading, Growth Waiting for a Cleaner “All Clear”

February 12, 2026 The headlines we’re seeing scream “late-cycle tension,” but the tape in thematic ETFs is more specific: investors are paying up for scarcity and hedges (metals, miners, broad natural resources) while keeping one eye on a potential pivot back to Growth if inflation cooperates and policy uncertainty stops leaking into margins. The push […]

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Thematic Thursday: Why Metals Matter Again, The Macro and Fundamental Case

Rising infrastructure spending, electrification, geopolitical fragmentation, and supply constraints are restoring metals’ strategic relevance. With limited new capacity and sustained real-asset demand, base and precious metals—and the miners behind them—are reasserting themselves as durable, late-cycle portfolio anchors.

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Thematic Thursday: Thematic ETF Rotation Across Time Horizons: 1-, 3-, and 6-Month Perspectives

January 22, 2026 We’ve built out a database of 382 of the most liquid, US domiciled ETFs across a broad range of thematic categories.  This week, we’re using that resource to analyze thematic fund flow trends over the past 1, 3 and 6-month periods.  The past six months have underscored how thematic ETF leadership is

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Crypto Market Outlook: Old Leaders Meet a New Generation of Crypto Stocks

November 6, 2025 Cryptocurrencies are again at a crossroads — neither in the frenzy of 2021 nor the despair of 2022, but somewhere in between. The tone across digital-asset markets has shifted toward cautious optimism, as investors weigh institutional adoption, new technology cycles, and the next wave of public-market crypto plays against lingering macro and

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Thematic Thursday: Alone at the Top, Why the Technology Sector Keeps Outperforming

October 30, 2024 The technology sector has once again pulled ahead of the market. Over the past three months, the S&P 500 Information Technology Index has gained nearly 7 %, while every other major GICS sector has either been flat or negative, according to data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. That divergence reflects a familiar

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Thematic Thursday: Putting Thematic ETFs in a Risk on/Risk off Context

October 23, 2025 Thematic investing has become a defining feature of modern portfolio construction. Rather than simply owning sectors, investors are targeting structural trends — from artificial intelligence and renewable energy to cybersecurity and space exploration — seeking asymmetric returns tied to long-term technological or policy shifts. Yet beneath the narratives, these themes differ sharply

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Thematic Thursday: Space Exploration, The Next Frontier in Public and Private Investment

October 9, 2025 Space exploration is emerging as one of the most dynamic and investable frontiers of the 2020s. What was once a government-led endeavor has evolved into a diversified commercial and technological ecosystem spanning communications, defense, data analytics, and manufacturing. The sharp decline in launch costs, the rise of private-sector innovation, the strategic value

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Thematic Thursday: Why No Bid for Commodities? 

October 2, 2025 In 2025, commodity prices have remained subdued despite persistent inflation concerns (chart below), a divergence rooted in slowing global demand, resilient supply, and shifting inflation dynamics. The World Bank projects that aggregate commodity prices will decline by roughly 12% in 2025, followed by another 5% drop in 2026. This weakness is especially

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Thematic Thursday: The Emerging Symbiotic Relationship Between Nuclear Power and AI

September 25, 2025 With the S&P 500 recently pulling back from fresh all-time highs, the motivating narrative of the current long-term bull market remains centered around the potential of AI to revolutionize commerce and life to be more efficient.  Optimism and pessimism around that narrative along with more mundane concerns like the actual levels of

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