About these summaries
Octagon has summarized 36 episodes of Trillions published between Jan 2, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026. The companies discussed most often are Bloomberg Intelligence, Vanguard and Anthropic. Frequent guests include Isabelle Lee, Athanasios Psarofagis and James Seyffart. Each summary lists key takeaways, short timestamped quotes and the companies and tickers mentioned, with a link to the full episode.
Most-mentioned tickers
- BLK 4
- STT 2
Most-mentioned companies
- Bloomberg Intelligence 6
- Vanguard 5
- Anthropic 4
- BlackRock 4
- SpaceX 4
- Bloomberg 3
- Bloomberg News 2
- Corgi 2
- OpenAI 2
- Roundhill 2
- SK Hynix 2
- State Street 2
Frequent guests
- Isabelle Lee 10
- Athanasios Psarofagis 6
- James Seyffart 4
- Andre Yapp 3
- Sharoon Francis 2
- Todd Sohn 2
Episodes
- Quit Your Job, Live Off an ETF? | Trillions
Derivative-income ETFs are drawing attention because they can deliver very high cash payouts, sometimes by using covered calls and other option strategies to turn part of equity…
- Godzilla vs. King Kong, Degen Dip-Buyers and Anthropic | Trillions
Vanguard appears to be pulling ahead of BlackRock in the U.S. ETF race after years of trading places, with the guest saying Vanguard’s low-cost core lineup has helped it finally…
- The ETF Graveyard: This Has Been a Record Year for Closures | Trillions
The episode tours the ETF Graveyard, where about 250 funds have already been liquidated in 2026 and the year is on pace to set a new record for closures.
- New ETFs to Watch: A $2.5 Billion Launch, Anthropic and S&P 10,000, Anyone? | Trillions
The episode runs through a batch of new ETFs that push in very different directions: a plain-vanilla 90/10 stock-and-bond fund backed by a huge University of California seed, a…
- Wall Street’s Plan to Make Sports an Investable Asset | Trillions
The episode lays out a plan to turn sports performance into a tradable financial benchmark, with FutureSports building the index layer behind proposed sports ETFs and futures.
- Can Corgi Become the Walmart of ETFs? | Trillions
Jeff Weniger says Corgi is trying to build the “Walmart of ETFs” by launching products at extreme speed, pricing them aggressively, and seeing what resonates.
- The 80/20 Portfolio, Bipartisan Stocks and Slumpy Septembers | Trillions
The episode centers on three ETF data signals: the shift from the classic 60/40 portfolio toward something closer to 80/20, the surprisingly bipartisan overlap in lawmakers’…
- Want to Find the Next Nvidia? Here’s How to Watch What ‘Big Active’ Is Buying | Trillions
The episode argues that daily holdings disclosures from active ETFs create a legal way to watch what “big active” is accumulating before those bets fully show up in mutual funds…
- New ETFs to Watch: MANGOS, Tax Tricks and Boring Bitcoin | Trillions
The hosts and Bloomberg News cross-asset reporter Isabelle Lee walked through three ETF launches that point to bigger trends in the market: tax deferral, private-asset access…
- Vanguard’s Plateau Is Exactly What Jack Bogle Wanted | Trillions
Vanguard’s 50th anniversary of the first index fund arrives just as its market share has stopped rising, and the episode argues that this plateau is not a failure but the…
- An ETF for a Wild Oil Market | Trillions
The episode centers on USE, the USCF Energy Commodity Strategy Absolute Return Fund, as an alternative way to trade oil and broader energy markets.
- Can You Put Sports Into an ETF Yet? | Trillions
The episode examines a wave of sports-themed ETF filings and asks why fund issuers are trying to package betting-like exposure inside an ETF wrapper.
- Another ETF Triple Crown? Plus a Global Bull Market and More | Trillions
ETFs are on pace for a rare back-to-back “Triple Crown,” with flows already above $1 trillion, launches still pouring in, and trading volume likely to set records as well.
- 351 Conversions: Smart Tax Alpha Strategy or Loophole in the Code? | Trillions
ETFs already offer tax advantages, but the episode focuses on a newer tactic: 351 conversions, which let wealthy investors move concentrated stock positions into customized ETFs…
- New ETFs to Watch: A Nasdaq 100 Challenger, the SK Hynix Smackdown and...a Multi-Token Widcard? |...
The episode focuses on four recent ETF launches that show how crowded and competitive the market has become.
- How Leveraged ETFs Became Wall Street's New Obsession | Trillions
Leveraged ETFs have moved from a niche trading tool to a fast-growing corner of the ETF market, with assets around $200 billion and daily trading volume about $50 billion.
- Tokenization, Digital Twins and the Future of ETFs | Trillions
The episode argues that tokenization is moving from hype to implementation, with DTCC preparing to create blockchain-based “digital twins” of stocks, bonds and ETFs.
- Which ETF Won Big With Trump Accounts? | Trillions
Trump Accounts are designed to seed children with $1,000 at birth, lock the money up until age 18, and let families or employers contribute up to $5,000 a year.
- Will the SEC Approve Prediction Market ETFs This Year? | Trillions
The guest says the SEC is trying to be more pro-innovation while still protecting retail investors, and that the agency’s recent focus on “novel” ETFs is really about process…
- New ETFs to Watch: 2x SpaceX, -3x AI, Plus Bonds and Bitcoin | Trillions
The episode focuses on a wave of new ETF launches, led by a messy race to package SpaceX exposure.
- Live from London - Clash of the Titans! | Trillions
BlackRock and Vanguard used a live London taping to frame ETFs as the main battleground in Europe, but both guests argued the bigger prize is not just share gain between two…
- ETF of the Moment: Software Isn't Dead, Yet | Trillions
The episode argues that the “SaaSpocalypse” may have been overdone and that software-linked ETFs are starting to recover as second-quarter earnings came in stronger than feared.
- The Biggest IPO Ever Meets Passive Investing | Trillions
SpaceX’s planned IPO is framed as a once-in-a-generation market event: a company that could be valued near $2 trillion is set to enter public markets with only about $75 billion…
- ETFs to Watch: POETs, HALOs and Corgis | Trillions
The episode focuses on how fast the ETF market is still expanding: Isabelle Lee says May has already seen 104 launches and that the year is on pace for about 1,300 launches, with…
- The Big Long: Risk and Reward With Ben Carlson | Trillions
Ben Carlson argues that long-term investing succeeds less because of brilliance than because of behavior, time horizon, and simple rules.
- ETF of the Moment: A Budding Comeback for Cannabis | Trillions
The episode launches a new recurring segment on the “ETF of the moment,” using short-term performance and trading volume to find funds that are suddenly drawing attention.
- How to Invest During a Trump Presidency | Trillions
The episode argues that investing under a Trump presidency has been less about predicting policy than about ignoring noise and watching how the market actually reacts.
- ETFs to Watch From Morgan Stanley, Vanguard and ... Pzena? | Trillions
The hosts launched a new monthly segment built around three recent ETF debuts and framed it as a way to separate potential hits from launches that look harder to justify.
- Will Prediction Markets Come to ETFs? | Trillions
The episode examines a new frontier for ETFs: funds designed to track prediction-market outcomes such as who wins the 2028 presidential election or which party controls Congress.
- That Mutual Fund Has an ETF Now | Trillions
Dimensional Fund Advisors launched the first ETF share class of an active mutual fund, using its 45-year-old US Micro Cap Portfolio as the debut vehicle.
- The Complexity of the Oil Trade | Trillions
Oil trading was framed as a problem of structure as much as price.
- Freedom Has Paid Off For this Indie ETF | Trillions
Freedom 100 Emerging Markets ETF (FRDM) has surged because its rules-based screen has kept it in the freer parts of emerging markets and out of countries with weaker civil and…
- Metal Mania | Trillions
Gold and silver’s explosive move was the starting point, but the episode framed the rally as more than just momentum chasing.
- How to Invest in Future Unicorn IPOs | Trillions
The episode focuses on how ARK’s Venture Fund gives investors access to late-stage private companies such as SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI without using the ETF wrapper.
- The Venezuela Factor: Why High-Yield, Emerging-Market Debt Is Having a Moment | Trillions
Venezuela’s debt rally drove the episode’s central argument: defaulted emerging-market bonds can surge when political risk falls and sanctions ease, even before any formal…
- ETFs to Watch in 2026 | Trillions
Bloomberg Intelligence’s annual ETF watchlist for 2026 centered on where investors may find fresh flows, tax advantages, and thematic upside rather than on simple buy-or-sell…
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