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One of the “most helpful plain-English resources for investors who want to demystify exchange-traded funds” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Latest Episode
Leveraged SpaceX ETFs & Mid-Year Industry Check-In
Paul Marino, Chief Revenue Officer at Themes ETFs, spotlights the highly successful debut of the Leverage Shares 2X Long SPCX Daily ETF (SPCH) and the Leverage Shares 2X Short SPCX Daily ETF (SSPC). He also discusses investor education and key due diligence considerations for leveraged and inverse single-stock ETFs. Kirsten Chang, Senior Industry Analyst at VettaFi, recaps the ETF industry in the first half of 2026, highlighting key milestones and important stories reflected in the flow data. She also looks ahead to the second half of the year through the lens of recent VettaFi advisor polling data.
About the Podcast
ETF Prime is hosted by Nate Geraci. Learn how to make ETFs a part of your investment portfolio as Nate spotlights individual ETFs and interviews experts from across the country. ETF Prime is available on Apple Podcasts, Android, Spotify, and most other major podcasting platforms. Specific guest interviews can be accessed by visiting the ETF Expert Corner.
Recent Episodes
Is an Investment Advisor Right For You?
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Back to School: ETFs 101
Listen to The ETF Store Show every Tuesday at 9am on ESPN 1510 as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.
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With Exchange Traded Funds on pace for another year of record inflows and traditional mutual fund giants aggressively entering the ETF space, it’s an exciting time for ETF investors. There are now over 1,500 ETFs available and at The ETF Store, we’re hearing from individuals all across the country who want to learn more about ETFs. On our most recent radio broadcast, we explained what’s driving this investor interest in ETFs and offered a crash course on why we believe ETFs are a better way to invest – particularly when compared to investing in individual stocks/bonds or actively managed mutual funds.
In our weekly market update, we talked rising interest rates and how they can impact your bond portfolio. As interest rates rise, bond prices decline – and depending on the types of bonds in your portfolio, these declines can be significant. The Wall Street Journal recently published an excellent chart outlining the impact of the most recent spike in interest rates and the return figures may surprise you:
We discussed what you can do to help protect your fixed income portfolio from rising interest rates and explained why the longer your time horizon, the less concerned you should be.
In our ETF Spotlight segment, we highlighted an ETF that costs 0.07%, invests in five hundred of the largest U.S. companies, and closely tracks an index that many actively managed mutual funds simply can’t beat (and certainly not with any consistency). The iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (ticker IVV) may seem like a boring, plain vanilla ETF, but we think owning five hundred of the largest US companies for 7 basis points and having all the flexibility that ETFs offer is pretty exciting. Learn more about IVV by visiting www.etfbuzz.com.
MCEE’s Mike English Discusses Importance of Financial Literacy
Listen to The ETF Store Show every Tuesday at 9am on ESPN 1510 as we cover everything you need to know about Exchange Traded Funds and the world of investing.
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Before reading any further, we think it would be well worth your time to do the following: 1) Watch the brief segment below from the Council for Economic Education titled “Spotlight On: Financial Literacy” which is currently airing on PBS, and 2) Take this short financial literacy quiz from FINRA.
The PBS segment highlights some absolutely alarming statistics. Only 14 states currently require high school students to take a course in personal finance. Of those 14 states, only 20% of teachers report that they’re even competent enough to teach those courses. A third of parents say that they’re more comfortable talking with their children about drugs, than about money! Regarding the FINRA quiz, believe it or not, only 14% of Americans were able to correctly answer all five of these basic financial concept questions correctly!
On our most recent radio broadcast, Mike English, President & CEO of the Missouri Council on Economic Education, joined us in studio to discuss this issue of financial literacy and offer some thoughts on what can be done to help fix the problem. In addition, we explained how a lack of personal financial literacy can cost you big-time when it comes to your investments. A recent US News & World Report article titled “15 Ways Our Financial Decisions Cost Us” laid out powerful research on how low levels of financial literacy can lead investors to pay higher investment fees & expenses, lose a substantial amount of investment income, and ultimately cost them a meaningful chunk of their wealth. The article found that financial literacy can explain more than half the wealth inequality observed in US data.
In our weekly market update, we spent a few minutes discussing how to think about approaching risk management in your investment portfolio and in our ETF Spotlight segment, we examined an ETF that can offer protection in a rising interest rate environment (PowerShares Senior Loan Portfolio ETF – ticker BKLN). Learn more about BKLN by visiting www.etfbuzz.com.
MCEE’s Mike English Discusses Importance of Financial Literacy
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