But thanks to Musk's work with DOGE, his public comments on X, and the infamous gesture he made at Donald Trump's inauguration that looked a lot like a Nazi salute, someone realized there was money to be made by avoiding him. The ETFs, which are similar to mutual funds, except they are traded like regular stocks, are legally registered by Tidal Trust I and attached to a brand called Subversive Markets Lab LLC. (Bloomberg was the first to spot the filing.) Avoiding the world's richest person can be tricky for the average investor, who likely puts their money into mutual funds tied to indices like the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. SpaceX, which is in the FTSE Russell and MSCI indexes, was recently added to the Nasdaq 100. That means it's included in funds that track those indexes. Musk's other publicly traded company, Tesla, is a longtime favorite of mutual funds, especially the large cap and growth varieties. The two newly registered ETFs, named Nasdaq-100 Ex-Elon Enterprises ETF and S&P...
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