In this week’s ETF & Markets video, ETF Expert Todd Sohn talks the record influx of ETF launches this year, an update to our levered asset ratio, opportunity for Energy and how to potentially play it and finally, fixed income flows.

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Definitions:

Actively-managed ETF - An actively managed ETF is an exchange-traded fund with a manager or team making decisions on the underlying investments in the fund

Inverse ETF - An exchange-traded fund designed to deliver returns that are the opposite of a target index or asset, aiming to rise when the market falls and fall when it rises.

Leveraged long ETF - A type of exchange-traded fund that uses financial derivatives and debt to amplify the daily returns of a specific underlying index or asset. Instead of simply matching the index's performance, a leveraged long ETF aims to provide multiples (like 2x or 3x) of the index's gains on a daily basis

Invesco S&P 500® Equal Weight Energy ETF (RSPG) - An ETF that will invest at least 90% of its total assets in common stocks that comprise the Index. The Index equally weights stocks in the energy sector of the S&P 500® Index

The Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index (AGG) is a market capitalization-weighted index that includes a wide range of investment-grade fixed-income securities traded in the U.S. It serves as a benchmark for mutual funds, ETFs, and institutional investors to measure the performance of their bond portfolios

Consumer Price Index (CPI) - A measure of the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a "market basket" of consumer goods and services

Bloomberg US Corporate Index -  An index that measures the investment grade, fixed-rate, taxable corporate bond market

Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index - An index that measures the performance of a specific segment of the U.S. Treasury market, typically consisting of fixed-rate, nominal, USD-denominated debt issued by the U.S. government.