Eric Balchunas is a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence. He joined Phil Rosen on Full Signal to discuss the record year for ETFs, the rise of crypto and leveraged products, how bitcoin is taking over traditional finance, and the debate around passive investing

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:30 - Historic ETF boom

3:32 - More ETFs than stocks

7:00 - Leverage risks

10:15 - Public & Generated Assets

11:25 - New SEC and regulation

16:37 - Bitcoin on Wall Street

21:57 - Vanguard approves crypto ETFs

24:44 - Magnificent 7 concentration

31:20 - Mike Green’s passive investing views

38:23 - Demographic risks of passive investing

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