Markets don’t fail because of shocks. They fail because shocks go uncorrected. That is the core finding of Rainmaker Information’s February 2026 research into exchange-traded product viability: when spreads exceed 47 basis points, monthly volume falls below A$800,000, and both conditions persist for four consecutive months, termination probability multiplies by a factor of 8.9 — from 4.4% to 39.1% within five years. The tripwire is not the blow. It is the inability to recover from it.

[https://www.rainmaker.com.au/media-release/when-etps-face-increased-termination-risk]

Applied to Israel, this framework exposes a paradox: strong headline returns coexisting with quietly deteriorating tradability in the long tail. The centre dazzles. The periphery frays. And the distance between the two is wider than anyone watching the TA-125 would guess.

The iShares MSCI Israel ETF returned 45.59% in 2025, with one-year annualised performance reaching 58.09%. The TA-125 surged 51%, foreign investors poured over 8 billion shekels ($2.3 billion) into TASE in the first three quarters, and foreign institutional holdings climbed to $19.2 billion. On Rainmaker’s three criteria, the flagship EIS — now approaching $850 million in AUM, with daily volumes frequently exceeding 100,000 shares — sits comfortably in the safe zone.

But Rainmaker’s insight was never about the flagship. It was about the ecosystem beneath it.

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