Investment Firm Launches Elon Musk-Free ETFs
THE SO WHAT
“Musk-free” ETFs are a proof point that values and personality risk are now explicit portfolio filters, not just background noise. Public-company operators should treat key-person and reputational concentration as a real cost of capital factor, not just a PR concern.
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