Michael<p>"BlackRock Saddles Up with <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/TEXN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TEXN</span></a> ETF, Betting on the Lone Star Boom"</p><p>🗺️We have country-based <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ETFs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ETFs</span></a>, global regional ETFs, and state-based muni ETFs, so for some of the largest powerhouse states (or regions), why not state based or U.S. regional ETFs?💡 Seems like an interesting idea, especially for those that want to invest in targeted geographies or jump into corporate and demographically expanding <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/regions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>regions</span></a>. </p><p>LONGHORN LIQUIDITY: In the case of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a>—where BlackRock sees nearly 200 investable companies and a $2.7 trillion economy—the numbers may make sense. If Texas was a country, it would be the eighth largest in the world🌎, behind Japan, UK, and France, but ahead of Italy, Canada, Russia, Brazil, and South Korea.</p><p>Y’all Street — as Dallas’s financial district is known — propels the area past Chicago and Los Angeles.</p><p>DEEP IN THE HEART OF MARKETS: Texas may swagger like it’s already the new Gotham, but the Lone Star State’s boots are still chasing New York’s wing tips and Jimmy Choos. Dallas indeed just leap-frogged Chicago to become America’s No. 2 finance-employment hub, and firms like Goldman, Charles Schwab, and Citadel have been busy trading subway tiles for TX barbecue joints and Florida beaches, but capital-market gravity still lives—at least for a little while longer—in <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Manhattan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manhattan</span></a> where listing depth, legal infrastructure, and sheer liquidity remain larger. </p><p>LONE STAR LIFT-OFF: BlackRock’s new iShares Texas Equity ETF (TEXN) is less a red-state culture rally bugle than a pragmatic bet on a $2.7 trillion economy that happens to pump crude, fab semis, and launch rockets before breakfast. With nearly 200 home-grown names and a vanilla 0.20% fee, it seems to offer investors a Lone-Star-sampler platter, not a MAGA-monolith.</p><p>~~<br>Running Point “we are your family office”™️</p><p>LIFE INSURANCE DONE SMART™️ (LIDS) is our in-house <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PPLI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPLI</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/PPVA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPVA</span></a> managed separate accounts program!</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/investing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/wealthmanagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wealthmanagement</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/taxplanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>taxplanning</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/estateplanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>estateplanning</span></a></p>