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Some of the most important ETF launch decisions happen before the first document is filed.
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Innovation doesn't end with product design. It depends on the market-making ecosystem that turns ideas into tradable ETFs.
The ETF industry's next great asset-gathering machine is not a product, it is a tax provision from 1954.
The metrics that defined yesterday's ETFs may not be the ones that matter most today.
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