Wall Street heavyweight Goldman Sachs just dropped a bomb—they're scooping up ETF issuer Innovator Capital for a cool $2 billion. This move signals serious institutional interest in the exchange-traded fund space. Traditional finance giants aren't playing around anymore; they're grabbing market share aggressively. Could this reshape how we see asset management evolving? The consolidation game is heating up fast.
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CryptoNomics
· 5h ago
actually, if you run a simple regression analysis on institutional m&a patterns in tradfi, you'd find that $2B acquisition valuations correlate *suspiciously* well with cycle tops. but sure, let's pretend this is organic growth and not just asset managers cannibalizing each other's market share before the next drawdown hits them. ceteris paribus, this screams desperation dressed up as strategy.
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ShibaSunglasses
· 23h ago
Damn, Goldman Sachs really doesn't take us seriously. They think they can monopolize the ETF market with a 2b acquisition of Innovator? Laughing to death, these TradFi giants are finally panicking.
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SolidityJester
· 12-02 12:32
Goldman's move is really impressive, 2B buys Innovator, TradFi is seriously starting to play with ETFs.
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ShortingEnthusiast
· 12-01 21:18
Goldman Sachs is buying the dip on ETFs, this is what we call institutional control, TradFi should be nervous.
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BrokenYield
· 12-01 17:07
ngl, gs throwing $2b at innovator is just classic trad finance doing what they do best—buying their way into relevance lol. the consolidation thesis writes itself when you've got that much dry powder sitting around. wonder what correlation matrix they ran before this one 😏
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GasWaster
· 12-01 17:05
Goldman Sachs spent $2 billion to buy Innovator. Is TradFi really starting to copy our homework?
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NotGonnaMakeIt
· 12-01 16:55
Damn, TradFi is really going to squeeze us retail investors to death.
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FastLeaver
· 12-01 16:54
Goldman Sachs is seriously getting into ETFs with this buying spree, are we still just watching?
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NotFinancialAdvice
· 12-01 16:50
gm, Goldman Sachs really started to do ETFs, TradFi still has its means...
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MiningDisasterSurvivor
· 12-01 16:40
2B dollars? Ha, I've been through the lessons of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and I've seen through Wall Street's acquisition tricks.
Wall Street heavyweight Goldman Sachs just dropped a bomb—they're scooping up ETF issuer Innovator Capital for a cool $2 billion. This move signals serious institutional interest in the exchange-traded fund space. Traditional finance giants aren't playing around anymore; they're grabbing market share aggressively. Could this reshape how we see asset management evolving? The consolidation game is heating up fast.