ETF Mania: What 2025 Taught Us About Innovation, Noise, and Staying Disciplined
By JAMES PARKYN & FRANÇOIS DOYON LA ROCHELLE
In this Episode, François Doyon La Rochelle and James Parkyn review the ETF landscape for 2025 and what it has taught us about innovation, noise, and the need to staying disciplined.
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Read The Script:
1) INTRODUCTION:
François Doyon La Rochelle:
You’re listening to Capital Topics, episode #88!
This is a monthly podcast about passive asset management and financial and tax planning ideas for the long-term investor.
Your hosts for this podcast are James Parkyn and me François Doyon La Rochelle, both portfolio managers with PWL Capital.
In today’s episode, review the ETF landscape for 2025 and what it has taught us about innovation, noise, and the need to staying disciplined.
Enjoy!
2) ETF MANIA: WHAT 2025 TAUGHT US ABOUT INNOVATION, NOISE, AND STAYING DISCIPLINED:
François Doyon La Rochelle:
In today’s podcast we will be diving into the ETF landscape after what was arguably a wild year for ETF launches both in the U.S. and in Canada. In 2025 more ETFs were launched than ever before, especially more active ETFs than plain vanilla index-based ETFs, and frankly I believe that a lot of those products don’t look like they were built with investors in mind. At least not those with a long-term investor mindset. So today we’ll ask a simple question: Is all this innovation helping investors? …Read More
Links:
- SPIVA® Canada Year-End 2025 - SPIVA | S&P Dow Jones Indices by Joseph Nelesen, Lucas Hyman & Davide Di Gioia – S&P Global
- US Active/Passive Barometer Report: Year-End 2025 | Morningstar by Bryan Armour, Eugene Gorbatikov & Maciej Kowara - Morningstar