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Cambria TAX ETF still repositioning toward target allocation months after in-kind seeding Section 351 Exchanges

28 weeks later: What's stopping Cambria Tax Aware ETF from hitting its target allocation?

Jan 22, 2025
Cartoon reviewing the Cambria Tax Aware ETF ticker TAX 28 days after its in-kind Section 351 launch Section 351 Exchanges

28 days later: Cambria Tax Aware ETF (ticker TAX) at launch and today

Jan 19, 2025
Cartoon on a locked-up direct indexing portfolio drifting into a high-cost index fund and the fixes available Direct Indexing

Has your direct indexing portfolio become a high-cost index fund?

Jan 12, 2025
Cartoon pitting direct indexing with tax-gain harvesting against a 529 plan using an unused kiddie tax benefit Direct Indexing

Can direct indexing + tax-gain harvesting beat the 529 plan?

Jan 5, 2025
Cartoon on de-risking concentrated stock by contributing up to 25% to a new ETF in-kind via Section 351 Section 351 Exchanges

De-risking concentrated stock by seeding an ETF in-kind

Dec 22, 2024
Graphic showing Cambria Tax Aware ETF seeded in-kind with $27 million across ETFs and direct equities Section 351 Exchanges

$27 million AUM contributed in-kind to Cambria Tax Aware ETF (TAX)

Dec 19, 2024
Section 351 diversification tests blocking a single large stock from tax-free ETF seeding Section 351 Exchanges

Can I diversify a large single-stock holding tax-free by seeding an ETF in-kind?

Dec 17, 2024
Cartoon questioning whether seeding ETFs in-kind via Section 351 can scale beyond a local, niche move Section 351 Exchanges

In-kind of a big deal: TAX launches soon

Dec 15, 2024
Cartoon on why mutual fund shares cannot practically seed an ETF in-kind under Section 351 Section 351 Exchanges

Can I seed an ETF in-kind using mutual fund shares?

Dec 11, 2024
Cartoon dissecting the BOXX box-spread ETF and how state income tax bites into its tax advantages on sale Box Spreads

What's in the BOXX? Part 1: State Rates

Dec 8, 2024
Cartoon questioning whether seeding ETFs in-kind via Section 351 will ever go mainstream Section 351 Exchanges

Will seeding ETFs in-kind go mainstream? "I doubt it"

Dec 1, 2024
Graphic lampooning a fortune-favors-the-brave ad while comparing exchange funds and Section 351 conversions Concentrated Stock

Fortune Favors The Brave... Until it Doesn't

Nov 24, 2024
ETF sponsors debating whether tax deferral drives the next wave of ETF asset growth ETF Taxation

Tax Deferral Is The Hottest Thing In ETFs?

Nov 17, 2024
Cartoon splitting options-powered ETFs into democratizers and disruptors after the SEC's 6c-11 ETF Rule Options

Options-Powered ETFs: Democratizers & Disruptors

Nov 10, 2024
Cartoon on the love-hate view of Morningstar's Tax Cost Ratio for measuring ETF tax efficiency ETF Taxation

Why I Love/Hate Morningstar's Tax Cost Ratio

Nov 3, 2024
Cartoon accompanying an FAQ on seeding an ETF in-kind featuring Meb Faber's Cambria Tax Aware ETF Podcasts & Media

Seeding an ETF In-Kind: FAQs and Video with Meb Faber and Pat Cleary

Oct 27, 2024
Cartoon on Cambria's TAX ETF normalizing the Section 351 conversion for in-kind ETF seeding Section 351 Exchanges

TAX distills a century of tax strategy into an ETF

Oct 20, 2024
Graphic on Section 351 conversions letting locked-up SMAs roll into ETFs in-kind without realizing gains Section 351 Exchanges

ETFs Could Soon Bail SMAs Out of Lockup

Oct 13, 2024
Infographic series on covered call ETFs and the good, bad, and fugly of return of capital ETF Taxation

Covered Call ETFs: The Good, the Bad and the Fugly

Sep 29, 2024
Cartoon pitting options-based covered call ETFs against bonds as the bigger tax-inefficient problem Options

Covered Call ETFs: The Flip Side of the Shitburger

Sep 22, 2024
Cartoon on a consolidated direct indexing vendor directory delivering tax efficiency on tap Direct Indexing

The Direct Indexing Vendor Directory

Sep 15, 2024
Cartoon skewering covered call ETFs like JEPI for the heavy tax cost investors pay to chase current income ETF Taxation

Covered Call ETFs: Shitburger With Extra Tax

Sep 8, 2024
Cartoon arguing direct indexing growth is overhyped while ETFs remain a strong alternative Direct Indexing

Direct Indexing Is Not A Rocket Ship

Aug 25, 2024
July 2024 direct indexing market map plotting providers and the $1M to $5M account sweet spot Direct Indexing

The Direct Indexing Market Map

Jul 2, 2024
A skeptical look at when tax-loss harvesting fails to pay off across lower tax brackets Tax-Loss Harvesting

When Tax-Loss Harvesting Goes Wrong

Jun 16, 2024
Cartoon framing tax-aware long/short strategies as engines built to generate large volumes of capital losses Tax-Aware Long-Short

What Is Tax-Aware Long-Short For?

Jun 9, 2024
Cartoon on tax-aware long/short outproducing direct indexing on harvested losses yet remaining niche Tax-Aware Long-Short

Tax-Aware Long-Short Delivers

Jun 2, 2024
Cartoon showing tax-loss harvesting overshadowing the other quiet tax advantages that funds and SMAs deliver Tax-Loss Harvesting

Tax-Loss Harvesting Gets Too Much Attention

May 26, 2024
Cartoon introducing a multi-part series on how tax-aware long-short strategies work Tax-Aware Long-Short

Tax-Aware Long-Short is On Deck

May 19, 2024
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