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AltETF Market Briefing: 28th September - 11th October 2026

DBi’s return-stacking launch leads this issue. In Europe, autocallables and option-income ETFs broaden the product range, while currency hedging and weekly payouts change how investors access existing exposures. Irish tax proposals and EU market reforms complete a busy fortnight for product design and distribution.

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AltETF Market Briefing: 14th - 27th September 2026

Saba’s move to semi-transparent holdings was the fortnight’s most significant structural development. Two option-income launches also stood out: Infrastructure Capital brought a flexible S&P 500 call-writing strategy to Europe, while HANetf introduced Europe’s first daily-expiry covered-call ETF. The start of Europe’s consolidated tape should also improve how specialist ETFs’ liquidity and trading activity are assessed.

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What Could Scale in Europe’s Alternative ETF Market?

Europe’s alternative ETF opportunity starts with an unusual mismatch. The region has decades of experience allocating to regulated liquid alternative strategies, while its ETF market is now capable of carrying genuinely active investment processes. Yet relatively little sits at the intersection of the two. Europe looks less like a market waiting to discover alternatives than a conversion market: one in which strategies investors already understand gain a new route into portfolios when the ETF genuinely improves how they are accessed and used.

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AltETF Market Briefing: 31st August–13th September 2026

A global CLO ETF was the clearest launch of the fortnight, broadening exchange-listed access to specialist credit despite sitting somewhat outside AltETF’s core focus. Elsewhere, a euro-hedged commodity strategy widened access for continental investors, CoinShares expanded its systematic investment capabilities, and a major UK platform opened to crypto ETNs.

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