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Mark Abssy
Senior Index & ETF Manager
INTERNATIONAL SECURITIES EXCHANGE
Mark Abssy is the Senior Index & ETF Manager for the International Securities Exchange. In this capacity, Mark is responsible for all phases in the development of innovative tradable products from concept to commercial launch.
Mark speaks on behalf of ISE as the Index and ETP expert at industry conferences, events ... [ Read More ]
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J. Christopher Boyd CFP®, CASL®
Chief Investment Officer & Managing Member
ASSET MANAGEMENT RESOURCES, LLC
Chris Boyd is the founder of Asset Management Resources, LLC and the Chief Investment Officer. He has been assisting clients on the Cape for over a decade. His firm, Asset Management Resources, LLC is a registered investment advisor firm in Massachusetts.
A 1988 alumnus of the College of the Holy Cross, ... [ Read More ]
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Reginald M. Browne
Managing Director & Global Co-Head, Listed Derivatives Group
KNIGHT CAPITAL GROUP
Mr. Reginald Browne is a Managing Director of Knight Capital Group and co-heads the firm’s global ETF institutional sales and business initiatives. Mr. Browne joined Knight in May 2009 from Newedge USA, a division of Societe Generale and Credit Agricole CIB. At Newedge, he was a Senior Vice President ... [ Read More ]
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Robert Carey CFA
Chief Investment Officer
FIRST TRUST ADVISORS
Mr. Carey has nearly a quarter century of experience as an Equity and Fixed-Income Analyst and is a recipient of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana with a B.S. in Physics. He is also a member of the ... [ Read More ]
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Vinny Catalano CFA
President & Global Investment Strategist
BLUE MARBLE RESEARCH
Vinny Catalano, CFA is President and Global Investment Strategist with Blue Marble Capital Management (BMCapM) and author of "Sectors and Styles" (Wiley 2006). A leading investment strategist and asset manager, Mr. Catalano appears regularly in the media (Bloomberg TV & Radio, foxbusiness.com, BNN TV, CNBC, New Delhi TV), is frequently ... [ Read More ]
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Doug Clark
Managing Director, Liquidity Research
INVESTMENT TECHNOLOGY GROUP
Doug Clark
Managing Director, Research
Mr. Clark, who has more than 17 years experience in the financial services and investment industry, is one of the original staff members of ITG Canada when the Canadian operations were launched in 2000.
In his position as Managing Director, Research, he is responsible for research ... [ Read More ]
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Wendy L. Coleman CAIA, CFA, FRM
Senior Advisor
CAIA ASSOCIATION
Wendy L. Coleman, CAIA, CFA, FRM
Wendy Coleman has been involved in the investment industry since 1994. She began her career in fixed income research, and over the course of her career has analyzed securities spanning multiple asset classes. She has extensive experience in both credit analysis and fundamental ... [ Read More ]
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Stephen W. Cook
Chief Operating Officer, Global ETFs
BNY MELLON ASSET SERVICING
Steve Cook is the COO for the Global ETF Services Business. In that capacity Steve is responsible for all aspects of the industry leading product offering for the Exchange Traded Fund, Unit Investment Trust and Closed-End Fund businesses. This includes overseeing client relationships, business development, product development and ... [ Read More ]
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Michael Dieschbourg CIMA
Board Member, INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS ASSOCIATION, Managing Director
BROADMARK ASSET MANAGEMENT
Michael Dieschbourg, CIMA®, Broadmark Asset Management, LLC Managing Director and member of the Investment team. He is the former CEO and Global Head of ESG for Global Currents Investment Management, LLC, a global equity firm, a Legg Mason company. Prior to his current position, Mr. Dieschbourg has ... [ Read More ]
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Mitchell D. Eichen J.D., LL.M.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
THE MDE GROUP, INC.
In 1987, Mitch founded The MDE Group, a pioneering and nationally recognized wealth management firm, with more than $1.35 billion under management. Since its inception, Mitch has lead The MDE Group as CEO with a strategic vision of innovation - first in the field of executive counseling, then ... [ Read More ]
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Timothy Friday
Institutional Services Group CEO
MID ATLANTIC CAPITAL GROUP, INC.
Tim has been in the financial services industry since he was graduated from John Carroll University, Cleveland, OH in 1984.
His career began with Federated Investors, Inc. where he worked with banks, savings and loans, and trust departments representing asset management and trust investment services. From there, he spent time with ... [ Read More ]
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Greg Friedman
Managing Director and COO of Russell Global ETFs
RUSSELL INVESTMENTS
BA, University of California, Davis
Licensed Registered Representative, FINRA Series 7 and 63
Gregory serves as the Managing Director and COO of Global ETFs for Russell Investments. In this role, Gregory is responsible for product development, product management, capital markets, and operations for Russell’s global ETF business.
Before joining Russell in ... [ Read More ]
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Deborah Fuhr
Partner & Co-founder
ETFGI
Deborah Fuhr is a partner and co-founder of ETFFI, an independent research and consultancy firm established in early 2012 aimed at providing services to the rapidly expanding global Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) industry and investors. The firm is focused on providing thought leadership, publishing independent research on the industry, products, ... [ Read More ]
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Josh Galper
Managing Principal
FINADIUM LLC
Josh Galper is the lead for Finadium's research and consulting practice. His expertise focuses on trading, clearing, settlement and custody. Josh has conducted numerous consulting assignments on prime brokerage, securities lending, market data, custody and clearing. His prior roles include corporate development at Merrill Lynch and running Electronic Trading at ... [ Read More ]
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Gary L. Gastineau
Principal
ETF CONSULTANTS LLC
Gary Gastineau is a recognized expert on exchange-traded funds. He is the Principal of ETF Consultants, a firm providing specialized exchange-traded fund consulting services to ETF issuers, exchanges and other markets, market makers, research organizations and investors. He is also a Managing Member and co-founder of Managed ETFs, a firm ... [ Read More ]
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David M. Gatti
Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, Partner
RISK PARADIGM GROUP ASSET MANAGEMENT
Mr. Gatti is the Chief Executive and Chief Investment Officer for RPg Asset Management. Mr. Gatti is responsible for the development and implementation of the entire product suite at the firm including mutual funds, SMA's and hedge fund of fund products. RPg. Asset Management is an investor-focused asset ... [ Read More ]
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Elliot Herman
Partner
PRW WEALTH MANAGEMENT LLC
Elliot is a Partner at PRW Wealth Management, LLC. He oversees the firm's financial planning practice, developing plans focused in the areas of wealth transfer, retirement, investment, tax, risk management, and estate planning. He also is responsible for the development, implementation, and monitoring of customized investment plans the Firm's clients.
Elliot ... [ Read More ]
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Rob Ivanoff
Director of Research
FINANCIAL PRODUCTS RESEARCH
Rob Ivanoff is a graduate of Boston University and developer of some of the most prestigious ETF and mutual fund research. His work and commentary on mutual fund trends and investments has been featured and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times and hundreds of other ... [ Read More ]
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John Jay
Senior Analyst
AITE GROUP
John Jay is a senior analyst at Aite Group. He specializes in OTC derivatives, fixed income structured products and analytical applications involved in the structured products space.
Mr. Jay has been widely quoted in the media, by sources including the Associated Press, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Hedge Funds Review, Inside ARM, and ... [ Read More ]
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Paul Joss, FSA, CFA
Investment Strategist
HARTFORD INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT COMPANY
Paul Joss is a member of the Insurance Strategy team for Hartford Investment Management Company (HIMCO). Paul is responsible for investment strategy for defined benefit pension obligations and other long-duration liabilities. Dynamic asset allocation has been Paul’s recent priority which aims for better integration of effective duration, spread duration, and ... [ Read More ]
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Richard Keary
ETF Consultant, Principal & Founder
GLOBAL ETF ADVISORS LLC
Richard Keary, Principal/Founder of Global ETF Advisors, has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry as a stock exchange executive, institutional block trader, and independent management consultant. He created Global ETF Advisors in March of 2009 to promote the growth of ETFs globally and to provide services ... [ Read More ]
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Joseph F. Keenan
Managing Director
BNY MELLON ASSET SERVICING
Joe is responsible for several key segments within the Global Financial Institutions sector of BNY Mellon Asset Servicing including: North American Banks, Third Party Asset Managers; Non-Registered, Closed-End and Custody Only Mutual Funds, and Unit Investment Trusts. Joe is also the Global Head of the Exchange Traded ... [ Read More ]
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Jeffrey Knight CFA
Head of Global Asset Allocation, Portfolio Manager
PUTNAM INVESTMENTS
Responsibilities at Putnam
Mr. Knight is Head of Global Asset Allocation at Putnam. In this role, he oversees the institutional and individual portfolios and the asset allocation investment process for Putnam's multi-asset-class portfolios. He is also Portfolio Manager of Putnam Absolute Return 500 Fund, Putnam Absolute Return 700 Fund, Putnam Asset ... [ Read More ]
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Erik Knutzen CFA, CAIA
Chief Investment Officer
NEPC, LLC
Erik joined NEPC in 2008 as Chief Investment Officer. Erik is responsible for overseeing Investment Research at NEPC, and developing and communicating investment strategy. Research at NEPC is comprised of a dedicated team of approximately 40 professionals working closely with NEPC's consultants and client support analysts. The Research team has ... [ Read More ]
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Neil Leeson
ETF Strategist
NED DAVIS RESEARCH INC
Neil Leeson, ETF Strategist, is in charge of ETF research and product development for the Ned Davis Research Group (NDRG) ETF service. Neil is the editor of a weekly institutional newsletter, ETF Highlights, which is designed to enhance NDRG's strategists' thoughts by providing ideas for execution of recommendations through ETFs. ... [ Read More ]
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Ed Lynch
Vice President
PAX WORLD MANAGEMENT LLC
Ed has with more than 25 years of experience in the asset management business, including positions in product management, sales, marketing and strategic planning for companies such as Fidelity Investments, Citigroup, Van Kampen Funds, J&W Seligman and XShares Advisors. Ed has broad experience in both intermediary and institutional markets working ... [ Read More ]
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Peggy McGillin CFP
Principal
JOURNEY RETIREMENT PLANS
Peggy McGillin, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and principal of Journey Retirement Plans in Concord, MA, is committed to her clients and plan participants retirement success. Journey solves the challenge for business owners of how to find defer more income for retirement through smart defined benefit plans and defined contribution plans ... [ Read More ]
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Ryan McGlothlin
Managing Director
P-SOLVE
Ryan McGlothlin heads the Boston office of P-Solve, the investment consulting division of Punter-Southall. P-Solve’s US office provides risk management advisory services to pension plans and other liability-driven institutional investors. Ryan joined P-Solve in September 2007 after spending five years with Barclays Capital in London. While with Barclays, Ryan specialized ... [ Read More ]
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Kevin P. McGuire
Director, Investment Technology
LOOMIS SAYLES & COMPANY
Kevin P. McGuire is a Vice President at Loomis, Sayles & Company, L.P. and serves as the Director of Investment Technology. Mr. McGuire joined the Boston based investment advisor in 2001. His key responsibilities include managing the firm’s technology strategy, application design and development, and business development support ... [ Read More ]
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Jerry A. Miccolis CFA, CFP, FCAS, MAAA
Principal, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Financial Advisor Co-author: Asset Allocation For Dummies®
BRINTON EATON WEALTH ADVISORS
Mr. Miccolis holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation, is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP) practitioner, and is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (FCAS). He also is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries (MAAA), the Financial Planning Association (FPA), and the New York Society of ... [ Read More ]
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Michael W. Mundt
Partner
STRADLEY RONON STEVENS & YOUNG, LLP
Michael W. Mundt is a partner in the Investment Management / Mutual Funds Practice Group at Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, where he focuses on legal issues relating to exchange-traded funds. Mr. Mundt joined Stradley Ronon in 2011 after 13 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission, where ... [ Read More ]
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Greg Peterson Ph.D., MBA, CFA
Managing Director
BALLENTINE PARTNERS, LLC
Greg is a Managing Director and Senior Investment Advisor at the firm. As Director of Investment Research, Greg is responsible for the firm's macro-economic strategy, asset allocation, and quantitative research.
Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Greg worked at PanAgora Asset Management as a Research Manager. Before that, he was ... [ Read More ]
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James Picerno
Editor
CAPITALSPECTATOR.COM
James Picerno is a freelance journalist/analyst who specializes in macroeconomics and investment strategy, including asset allocation, related academic research, and the analysis of ETFs, ETNs and mutual funds. Picerno is the author of the book Dynamic Asset Allocation: Modern Portfolio Theory Updated For The Smart Investor (Bloomberg Press, 2010). He ... [ Read More ]
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Yvonne I. Pytlik MBA, CPA
Chief Compliance Officer, DVM INVESTMENT ADVISER, Chief Compliance Officer
DREMAN CONTRARIAN MUTUAL FUNDS
Yvonne I. Pytlik is a senior executive and one of industry’s most highly regarded strategists in compliance risk management and corporate governance for financial institutions. Prior to joining Dreman, she was the Deputy Head of Global Compliance, Risk Management, and Strategic Planning at Deutsche Bank AG. Ms. Pytlik was ... [ Read More ]
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Todd Rosenbluth
Senior Director
S&P CAPITAL IQ
Todd Rosenbluth is a senior director for S&P Capital IQ Equity Research Department and is a member of the multi-asset team. In addition to being the lead developer of Standard & Poor’s revised Mutual Fund Ranking Methodology that involves holdings-based analysis, he supports the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) Methodology.
Todd has ... [ Read More ]
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Richard Saperstein
Senior Portfolio Manager
TREASURY PARTNERS
RICHARD SAPERSTEIN
Richard Saperstein has 30 years experience on Wall Street, and is Managing Director/Principal and Senior Portfolio Manager with TREASURY PARTNERS. He is widely acknowledged for his investment expertise and, since 2004, has ranked in the top tier of Barron’s annual survey of “America’s Top 100 Financial Advisors.”
In 2011, ... [ Read More ]
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Michael I. Schwartzman
President
VALUESEARCH CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
Michael Schwartzman founded ValueSearch Capital Management (VCM) in 1987, and is now the portfolio manager of the hedge funds offered by VCM: the ValueSearch Equilibrium Partners and its offshore counterpart.
ValueSearch Equilibrium Partners hedge funds are based on a long-term investment strategy that relies on proprietary analysis of the ... [ Read More ]
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Timothy J. Seymour
Partner
TRIOGEM ASSET MANAGEMENT
Timothy J. Seymour
Managing Partner, Triogem Asset Management
Host, CNBC’s “Trading the Globe”; Trader, “Fast Money”
Tim Seymour is a co-founder and Managing Partner at Triogem Asset Management (www.triogem.com), a hedge fund manager formed in 2008, focused on the Emerging Markets asset class. At Triogem, Tim is a PM and member of ... [ Read More ]
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Raj Sharma
Private Wealth Advisor, Managing Director Wealth Management
MERRILL LYNCH
Raj is Managing Director of Investments and head of The Sharma Group of Merrill Lynch Private Banking and Investment Group with over two decades of experience in financial planning and asset management. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Management, with specialization in finance from the Institute of Management ... [ Read More ]
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Mark Sladkus
Founder and President
RED LIGHTHOUSE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT
Mark Sladkus is the founder and president of Red Lighthouse Investment Management, a fee-only registered investment advisory firm in New York City. Mark's expertise in creating and maintaining indices provided the inspiration and foundation for Red Lighthouse Investment Management. Red Lighthouse focuses on asset allocation and provides structured ... [ Read More ]
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Paris Smith
Principal/Senior Trader
WOLVERINE TRADING, LLC
Paris Smith is a Principal on Wolverine Trading's liquidity desk. Coming from an Index arbitrage background, he develops and implements new trading strategies for ETP's and futures and is also responsible for issuer relationships. His desk makes markets in futures and ETP's in a wide range of products including ... [ Read More ]
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Dimitrios V. Tzimas Ph.D.
Managing Principal & Chief Technology Officer
XQUISITEC TECHNICAL CONSULTING
Dr. Dimitrios Tzimas has more than 15 years of experience, including 10 years in CTO level positions in the finance and education sectors. He is currently the Managing Principal of XQUISITEC, a boutique firm providing technology risk assessment services, technology strategy and technical architecture guidance to companies in various industries. ... [ Read More ]
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Daniel K. Weiskopf
Principal
FOREFRONT CAPITAL LLC
Dan Weiskopf, as co-portfolio manager, focuses on ETF research and strategy at Forefront. In 2003 he joined UBS Financial Services Inc. where he was a founding Partner of the FaucettaWeiskopf Wealth Management Group. Previously, from 1995 until 2003, Mr. Weiskopf was a Founder and Principal of MH CApital Partners, ... [ Read More ]
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Robert Whitelaw
Edward C. Johnson 3d Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance, STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, Chief Investment Strategist
INDEX IQ
Professor Robert F. Whitelaw
Edward C. Johnson 3d Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Chair of the Finance Department, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University
Chief Investment Strategist and member of the Academic Board, IndexIQ
Professor Robert F. Whitelaw is the Edward C. Johnson 3d Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and ... [ Read More ]
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Steven Williams
Chief Derivatives & ETP Strategist
ROSENBLATT SECURITIES INC.
Steven is the Chief Derivatives & ETP strategist of Rosenblatt Securities, a boutique institutional brokerage founded in 1979. The firm uses advanced technological tools to represent institutional investors on an agency-only basis in equity, ETF and derivatives markets. Rosenblatt is also the leading provider of analysis on global exchanges and ... [ Read More ]
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Alexander D. Wissner-Gross Ph.D.
The MIT Media Laboratory
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross is an award-winning scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur. He serves as an Institute Fellow at the Harvard University Institute for Applied Computational Science and as a Research Affiliate at the MIT Media Laboratory. He has received 105 major distinctions, authored 14 publications, been granted 16 issued, pending, ... [ Read More ]
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Joseph G. Witthohn CFA
VP of Product Development and ETF Strategies
EMERALD ASSET MANAGEMENT
Joe Witthohn is VP of Product Development and ETF Strategies for Emerald Asset Management, located in Lancaster, PA. He previously served in past roles as a member of the Investment Strategy Group, Director of ETF Research, Research Analyst and Senior Mutual Fund Analyst at Janney Montgomery Scott ... [ Read More ]
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