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# Hot Reads: Valkyrie Leads Bitcoin ETF Race

 

 

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 The small firm confidentially filed for a Bitcoin futures fund in June, far ahead of the SEC’s signals in favor of that style of ETF.

[**SEC Cracking Down On Robo Advisors**](https://www.fa-mag.com/news/as-sec-cracks-down-on-robo-advisors--pundits-wonder--is-robinhood-next-63661.html) (FA Magazine)  
 Pundits wonder if Robinhood is next.

[**ESG Asset Managers: Define The Why**](https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2021/08/24/esg-asset-managers-define-the-why/) (Evidence-Based Investor)  
 How precisely can asset managers help their clients invest to produce a genuine positive impact, as well as a return?

[**Schwab Strategist: Why People Are Getting Inflation Wrong**](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-people-are-getting-the-inflation-debate-wrong-charles-schwabs-liz-ann-sonders-210804614.html) (Yahoo Finance)  
 Inflation’s hitting multiple product segments differently.

[**7 Dividend ETFs To Buy &amp; Watch For**](https://www.investors.com/etfs-and-funds/etfs/dividend-etfs/?src=A00220) (Investor’s Business Daily)  
 A few picks for selecting an income-generating ETF.

[**Are ESG &amp; Private Equity Competing Ideologies?**](https://www.morningstar.com/articles/1049621/are-esg-and-private-equity-competing-ideologies) (Morningstar)  
 The potentially contentious intersection may prompt heated investment debates.

[**Stock Market As Active As Before $11T Index Invasion**](https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2021/08/24/stock-market-is-as-active-as-before-11-trillion-index-invasion) (Advisor Perspectives)  
 Not only are ETFs being enthusiastically deployed by discretionary managers of all stripes, they’re often designed in more active ways than their detractors would have you believe.

[**A Very Good Year In The Stock Market**](https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2021/08/a-very-good-year-in-the-stock-market/) (A Wealth Of Common Sense)  
 This year’s gains have been much easier to come by than the gains in 2020, with little volatility.

[**Value Premium May Be Smaller Than Originally Thought**](https://alphaarchitect.com/2021/08/24/the-value-premium-might-be-smaller-than-we-originally-thought/) (Alpha Architect)  
 Digging into the HML formulation for estimating the value premium.



 

 

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