Cathie Wood, CEO of ARK Investment Management. Alex Flynn/Bloomberg
Star fund manager Cathie Wood is setting her eyes on yet another booming industry, and it’s setting the stocks on fire.
ARK Investment Management, an asset-management firm led by Wood, filed late Wednesday to launch the ARK Space Exploration exchange-traded fund under the ticker ARKX.
Although the fund isn’t on the market yet and its exact holdings are unknown, the news itself was bullish enough to spark a rally in many companies related to the space business.
It’s the latest demonstration of how popular and influential ARK Investment and its founder Wood has become in the past year.
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The chief executive and founder of DoubleLine suggested looking at a beaten-up and unloved sector of credit markets: bank loans. Alex Flynn/Bloomberg
Risks lurk in an overvalued stock market and the bond market with inflation on the horizon, DoubleLine chief executive and founder Jeffrey Gundlach said. But the fund manager dubbed by
Barron’s as the Bond King nearly a decade ago does have one pick for income investors.
In an interview with CNBC, Gundlach suggested looking at a beaten-up and unloved sector of credit markets: bank loans, which ended 2020 with price losses in many cases as fund investors fled the sector. By contrast, fund investors rushed into other parts of the credit market, especially junk bonds, in their quest to grab what little income was available after the Federal Reserve slashed short-term interest rates to zero and provided unprecedented support to the corporate bond market.