Virtus Duff & Phelps Clean Energy ETF

VCLN

Market cap $5.67M

It may not have been on your investment bingo card, but one of the surprising outperforming investment themes this year has been clean energy. One catalyst has been the growing electricity demands related to the rise of AI.

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Investors who piled into clean energy themes the last few years are experiencing some performance pain this year, as we appear to be experiencing a detour on the road to the clean energy transition. Related themes have been hard hit this year due to a confluence of events.