BUFC offers capped S&P 500 upside and a 15% downside buffer, making it ideal for risk-averse investors focused on capital ...

After bleeding billions from its flagship funds, Cathie Wood’s ARK Investment Management is entering into the booming “buffer ...

The company launched four ETFs that adjust their caps and downside protection buffers depending on volatility.

Cathie Wood's Ark Investment Management has filed proposals for four new exchange-traded funds that aim to cushion potential ...

Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management LLC is moving into the fast-growing market for buffer ETFs designed to limit equity losses, at a time when her tech funds continue to bleed assets. The ...

Innovator’s new ETF takes its structure from the world of annuities, but its utility to investors remains an open question.

The latest derivatives-based strategies offer new guarantees against volatility even as the broader defined-outcome space ...

The Dual Directional Buffer ETFs seek to potentially provide gains in both rising and declining markets for an outcome period ...

Buffer ETFs may also work well for investors who are extremely intolerant of risk. “These are people who are 45 years old, and their advisors are urging them to invest in stocks, but they don ...

Related:$6.5B RFG Advisory Launches Suite of Active ETFs “What’s really resonating is the certainty in the downside protection,” said Graham Day, executive vice president and CIO, with Innovator, the ...

Since then, the buffer ETF market has exploded. Today, there are nearly 300 different buffer ETFs available with more than $48 billion in assets.

Buffer exchange-traded funds, also known as defined-outcome ETFs, use options contracts to limit losses while capping upside potential. As of August 2024, there were 327 buffer ETFs, representing ...