ALPS Clean Energy ETF

ACES

Valor de mercado US$ 91,4 mi

With megacap tech driving extreme market concentration, traditional equity and fixed income portfolios face growing structural challenges. A recent SS&C ALPS Advisors webcast, “Building Resilient Portfolios With Real Assets” — moderated by TMX VettaFi's Roxanna Islam alongside experts Carl Zeller and Richard Baker — demonstrated how incorporating real assets can help diversify your portfolio.

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--America's Consortium for Electric Skyways (ACES) today announced plans to support Texas' air taxi operations under the White House's eVTOL Integration Pilot Program (eIPP) by expanding interoperable electric aviation charging infrastructure in the state across key locations like airports, FBOs and other points of interest. Launched by Archer, BETA and Macquarie Capital, ACES has set a goal to electrify up to 250 air taxi sites across America's largest airports and metro.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia and IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #5G--ACES and Movandi partner to advance mmWave, O-RAN, small cells, and next-generation 5G and 6G infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.

Solar ETFs moved into focus Friday after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs targeting imported products made from polysilicon, a key material used in solar panel manufacturing. The tariffs could give U.S.

Recent headlines about slowing AI spending and volatile tech stocks miss a bigger story. The U.S. power grid isn't ready for what's coming.

The ALPS Clean Energy ETF offers diversified exposure to North American clean energy companies, tracking the CIBC Atlas Clean Energy Index. ACES aligns with the long-term global energy transition theme but has underperformed the S&P 500, with a five-year total return of -57%. Short-term risk-return metrics for ACES are unattractive, evidenced by a three-year Sharpe Ratio of -0.20, despite a recent 17.32% surge in May 2026.

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers, a fractured energy security picture, and a wave of electrification are converging into a supercycle for clean energy infrastructure. That's according to executives from SS&C ALPS Advisors and CIBC Private Wealth.

While volatile oil prices have taken much of the spotlight in the energy sector this year, increasing global energy security concerns amid geopolitical tensions, soaring data center energy demand, and substantial international investment have propelled clean energy ETF gains in 2026.

On a year-to-date basis, clean energy equities and the related ETFs have delivered solid returns, but recent price action has left something to be desired.

Markets have treated AI as a gold rush of LLMs, chips and cloud applications, but as the industry shifts from chatbots to agentic systems —  AI that autonomously runs workflows and makes decisions — hyperscalers are now facing a brutal physical bottleneck.