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March flows are in, and they were pretty stellar, putting ETFs back on track for a strong year.  InsideETFs Matt Hougan joins me to talk about the winners and losers in this decidedly “risk-on” comeback.

I’m joined by good friend Matt Hougan, CEO of Inside ETFs, to talk about the dramatically different ETF fund flows picture were seeing in 2016 so far — not just risk off, risk gone!

With a highly volatile start to the year, ETF investors are moving into defensive equities, and looking for other, sometimes exotic ways to prosper.  I sit down with Todd Rosenbluth from S&P Capital IQ to talk about the right and wrong ways to go “Risk Off.”

I’m just back from Inside ETFs 2016 and it was a doozy.  I’m joined by Inside ETFs CEO Matt Hougan to talk about our big takeaways from the conference: Smart Beta, professional investors, the absence of Robo Advisors and the lackluster January 2016 flows.

2015 was a big year in ETFs, missing the high water mark for inflows set by 2014 by just a tiny amount.  Matt Hougan from ETF.com sits down with me to talk about the winners and losers in the asset race, and some predictions for who carries the torch in 2016.

This week I chatted with Todd Rosenbluth from S&P Capital IQ about the SEC’s recent activity around derivatives, the current state of fixed income, and what 2016 is going to hold in store for the ETF investor.

In the wake of major fee cuts by Blackrock and Schwab, I sit down with Bloomberg’s Eric Balchunas to talk about the reasons behind the battle for cheap, and whether it’s sustainable.

Todd Rosenbluth from S&P Capital IQ has some interesting ideas on how to evaluate newly listed ETFs, especially those making claims of outperformance.

Ari Weinberg returns to talk about firms like Goldman Sachs, John Hancock and NYLife getting into the ETF space. Is this old guard coming in with new tricks? You can read Ari’s work at P&I Magazine and in the Wall Street Journal.

The SEC just rolled out a sweeping set of proposals for how ETFs and Mutual Funds manage liquidity risk in their portfolios (all 400+ pages available at https://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2015/33-9922.pdf) … The real issue will be unintended consequences.  I sit down with ETF.com’s Matt Hougan to dig into the details.