Welcome to the ETF Prime Podcast
One of the “most helpful plain-English resources for investors who want to demystify exchange-traded funds” – Bloomberg Businessweek
Latest Episode
Early Grades on 2026 ETF Predictions & Key Market Themes to Watch
Cinthia Murphy, Investment Strategist at VettaFi, delivers early grades on host Nate Geraci’s five ETF predictions for 2026. Matt Bartolini, Global Head of Research Strategists at State Street Investment Management, shares three key ETF and market themes on his radar.
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
We Talk FlexShares ETFs with Marie Dzanis
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.
Click here to listen to The ETF Store Show now.
On our most recent radio broadcast, Marie Dzanis, Head of Sales & Servicing at FlexShares, joined us to discuss the FlexShares family of ETFs. Flexshares, operated by $700+ billion asset manager Northern Trust, takes a unique approach to ETF construction by “seeking investment outcomes that help meet real-world needs such as inflation-hedging, targeting duration exposure, long term growth and liquidity”. While many ETFs look to track market-cap weighted indexes (think S&P 500), FlexShares attempts to add intelligence to the process in order to meet these specific investor objectives. As ETFs soar in popularity, we continue to see more and more ETF providers offering these sort of rules-based or intelligent index ETFs. As we’ve said for years, ETFs have effectively “democratized” investing – bringing institutional caliber strategies to retail investors that they couldn’t have dreamed of accessing just a short decade ago. ETFs such as the ones FlexShares offers are yet another example of this leveling of the investment playing field where investors can gain access to sophisticated strategies while also taking advantage of the potential benefits of ETFs at the same time (low cost, transparency, tax efficiency, etc). We discussed this particular topic in more detail with FlexShares’ Marie Dzanis, who also explained why Northern Trust made the dive into ETFs to begin with.
In our weekly market update, we explained what the so-called “sequester” is and how it could potentially impact your investments. With equity markets at all-time highs and interest rates at all-time lows, we also discussed the challenges investors are facing in allocating their investments right now. In our ETF spotlight segment, given our focus on FlexShares ETFs, we delved into a very interesting TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Securities) ETF – the FlexShares iBoxx 3Yr Target Duration TIPS ETF (ticker TDTT). Not only was this one of the faster growing ETFs in 2012 (it scooped up over $500 million), but it also seeks to address two of the biggest concerns facing fixed income investors right now – rising interest rates and inflation.
We Talk FlexShares ETFs with Marie Dzanis
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ETFs to Displace Mutual Funds?
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.
Click here to listen to The ETF Store Show now.
On our most recent radio broadcast, we delved into the numerous potential benefits that ETFs can offer investors over traditional mutual funds – and in particular, actively managed mutual funds. As ETFs continue to soar in popularity, the mainstream financial media is ramping up their ETF coverage in response and touting these potential benefits – things such as lower cost, greater tax efficiency, more transparency, and access to a wider variety of asset classes. On the show, we played several recent CNBC clips that really highlight the growing investor interest in ETFs and in our belief, point to a fundamental shift from mutual funds to ETFs that is currently taking place. If you’re new to ETFs, we certainly recommend taking a look at CNBC’s introductory piece on ETFs and perusing our free report “The ETF Advantage”. We also discussed some recent comments from a well-known player in the investment management industry who believes ETFs may displace mutual funds over the next 15 years.
In our weekly market update, we zeroed in on gold, offering some thoughts on what’s causing the recent price drop in gold and what role we think gold should play in your portfolio moving forward. We also explained why an ETF such as the iShares Gold Trust (ticker IAU) or the SPDR Gold Shares (ticker GLD) might be a better way to invest than by holding physical gold. Finally, in our weekly ETF spotlight segment, we examined the Vanguard Small Cap Value ETF (ticker VBR) and explained why ignoring small cap stocks in your equity exposure could be a mistake.