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Twenty Years Strong: The Strategic Value of SSGA’s GLD ETF Today

Now more than two decades old, SSGA’s gold ETF remains a powerful tool for investors seeking stability, liquidity, and cost-effective access to gold. As the first U.S.-traded gold ETF, the strategy offers portfolio diversification with minimal correlation to stocks and bonds, aiming to provide protection during market downturns while eliminating the hassles of physical ownership.

Freedom as a Factor: How Westwood’s BFRE ETF Aims to Leverage Democratic Governance for Risk Management

Westwood’s new LBRTY Global Equity ETF (BFRE) doesn’t just exclude authoritarian countries—it deploys a dynamic, rules-based methodology to systematically reduce indirect exposure to autocratic regimes. As geopolitical tensions rise globally, BFRE offers investors a transparent way to potentially address both visible and hidden political risks while seeking to maintain benchmark-relative performance.