S&P Dow Jones Indices, a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500^® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average^®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has become home to over 1,000,000 indices across the spectrum of asset classes that have helped define the way investors measure and trade the markets. For more information, visit www.spdji.com

Invesco is an independent investment management firm dedicated to delivering an investment experience that helps people get more out of life.

We are privileged to manage more than $934.2 billion in assets on behalf of clients worldwide (as of March 31, 2018 ). We have:

• Specialized investment teams managing investments across a comprehensive range of asset classes, investment styles and geographies.
• Nearly 7,000 employees focused on client needs across the globe.
• Proximity to our clients with an on-the-ground presence in 25 countries.
• Solid financials, an investment grade debt rating, and a strong balance sheet.

Krane Funds Advisors, LLC is the investment manager for KraneShares ETFs. Our suite of China focused ETFs provide investors with solutions to capture China’s importance as an essential element of a well-designed investment portfolio. We strive to provide innovative, first to market strategies that have been developed based on our strong partnerships and our deep knowledge of investing. We help investors stay up to date on global market trends and aim to provide meaningful diversification.

J.P. Morgan ETFs harness the power of our firm’s deep intellectual capital and broad investment capabilities to deliver a diverse suite of solutions across major global asset classes. Whether your clients seek long-term growth, current income or alternative asset exposure, our ETFs are designed to solve their needs.

As your partner, we actively share our expertise into portfolio management, quantitative research and beta investing to help you empower better decisions and build stronger portfolios. We invite you to tap into our proven track record of ETF innovation and success to broaden diversification and strengthen client relationships.

OppenheimerFunds, Inc., a leader in global asset management, is dedicated to providing solutions for its partners and end investors. OppenheimerFunds, including its subsidiaries, manages more than $250 billion in assets for over 13 million shareholder accounts, including sub-accounts, as of March 29, 2018.

Founded in 1959, OppenheimerFunds is an asset manager with a history of providing innovative strategies to its investors. The firm’s 16 investment management teams specialize in equity, fixed income, alternative, multi-asset, and factor and revenue-weighted ETF strategies, including ESG, as a signatory of the UN PRI. OppenheimerFunds and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of products and services to clients, who range from pensions and endowments to financial advisors and individual investors. OppenheimerFunds and certain of its subsidiaries provide advisory services to the Oppenheimer family of funds, and OFI Global Asset Management offers solutions to institutions. The firm is also active through its Philanthropy & Community initiative: 10,000 Kids by 2020, reaching children with introductions to math literacy programs.


Web:  oppenheimerfunds.com
Tweets:  twitter.com/OppFunds
Podcasts:  oppenheimerfunds.com/advisors/podcasts

Orion was built by advisors, for advisors. The market didn’t have a portfolio accounting service good enough for our sister company, a registered investment adviser, so we built the solution ourselves. We understand the frustrations you have to work through, because they’re ones we’ve experienced ourselves. So, we’ve come up with innovative, advanced solutions to problems you face every day. Like you, we aren’t content with what exists. We look ahead to uncover what’s next.

For nearly four decades, State Street Global Advisors has been committed to helping financial professionals and those who rely on them achieve their investment objectives. We partner with institutions and financial professionals to help them reach their goals through a rigorous, research-driven process spanning both active and index disciplines. We take pride in working closely with our clients to develop precise investment strategies, including our pioneering family of SPDR® ETFs. With trillions* in assets under management, our scale and global footprint provide access to markets and asset classes, and allow us to deliver expert insights and investment solutions.

State Street Global Advisors is the investment management arm of State Street Corporation.

^*Assets under management were $2.47 trillion as of December 31, 2016. AUM reflects approximately $30.62 billion (as of December 31, 2016) with respect to which State Street Global Markets, LLC (SSGM) serves as marketing agent; SSGM and State Street Global Advisors are affiliated.

ALPS is a comprehensive financial services company offering a variety of services to the investment management industry. With over 25 years of experience, we have developed a strong track record of innovation in the asset management, asset servicing and asset gathering business. ALPS entered the ETF market as one of the first service providers in 1995 and has since grown to become the 4th largest distributor of ETFs in the US. In 2007, we expanded our capabilities as an asset manager, specializing in satellite and alternative investment strategies that are designed to help advisors and Institutional Investors build better portfolios.

Our approach involves asset class and manager evaluation, seeking to partner with best-in-class index providers and sub-advisors to deliver portfolio solutions that help improve diversification and provide exposure to attractive investment themes. By utilizing Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) and Open-End Mutual Funds, we are able to provide asset class exposure that is registered, liquid and transparent.

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (“Cboe Global Markets” or “Cboe”) is one of the world’s largest exchange holding companies, offering cutting-edge trading and investment solutions to investors around the world. The company is committed to relentless innovation, connecting global markets with world-class technology, and providing seamless solutions that enhance the customer experience.

Cboe offers trading across a diverse range of products in multiple asset classes and geographies, including options, futures, U.S. and European equities, exchange-traded products (ETPs), global foreign exchange (FX) and multi-asset volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index (VIX Index), the world’s barometer for equity market volatility.

Cboe’s trading venues include the largest options exchange in the U.S. and the largest stock exchange by value traded in Europe. In addition, the company is the second-largest stock exchange operator in the U.S. and a leading market globally for ETP trading.
The company is headquartered in Chicago with offices in Kansas City, New York, London, San Francisco, Singapore, Hong Kong and Ecuador. 

A full-service, strategically integrated firm, Gregory FCA creates and deploys sophisticated national media relations, social media, content marketing, investor relations, and financial communications campaigns.

The nation’s 50th largest PR firm, our clients include fast-growing private and publicly traded companies competing in today’s digital economy. Gregory FCA’s staff of 57 professionals — drawn from journalism, finance, communications, and public relations — service many key markets, including financial services, consumer and enterprise technology, real estate, healthcare and consumer products, and more.

LIMEYARD is a proprietary and non-proprietary benchmark provider, delivering rule-based, compliant traditional and smart-beta investable solutions to institutions on the sell and buy sides.

At LIMEYARD, we don’t settle for less than excellence – and this means continuous innovation in all areas of our business. We fully understand our clients’ needs; we understand their pain points. This empathy enables us to be agile, fast and transparent, delivering the highest quality service around the clock. For us, to be a benchmarker means keeping one step ahead, and being one step closer to the client.

NYSE Group is a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses, and a provider of data and listings services.  NYSE Group includes exchanges, market data and connectivity services. The equity exchanges -- the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE MKT and NYSE Arca -- trade more U.S. equity volume than any other exchange group. NYSE is the premier global venue for capital raising, leading worldwide in IPOs, including technology IPOs. NYSE Arca Options and NYSE Amex Options are leading equity options exchanges. To learn more, visit www.nyse.com/index. 

ICE Data Services is a global leader in market data, analytics and connectivity solutions. We offer proprietary market data from a dozen exchanges worldwide, together with indices, fixed-income evaluations and reference data, and we serve the rising demand for more capacity and information with feeds, desktops and connectivity services. Our comprehensive, flexible data solutions provide coverage for global markets across all major asset classes.

Principal Global Investors leads global asset management at Principal®. As a multi-boutique firm, we bring a focused perspective and offer expertise across a host of asset classes: fixed income, equities, real estate, asset allocation, target-date and target-risk, currency, stable value, and other structured investment strategies.

At our core, we’re driven by our purpose to help investors and businesses achieve their financial goals.  We deliver investment solutions for public and private pension funds, foundations, and endowments, central banks, insurance companies, sub-advisory arrangements, sovereign wealth funds, and individual portfolios.

Today, we manage $US411.1 billion of assets on behalf of a broad range of investors from over 70 countries.

Riskalyze is the company that invented the Risk Number™, which powers the world’s first Risk Alignment Platform, empowers advisors to execute the digital advice business model with Autopilot and enables compliance teams to spot issues, develop real-time visibility and navigate changing fiduciary rules with Compliance Cloud. Advisors, broker-dealers, RIAs, asset managers, custodians and clearing firms today manage $380 billion on Riskalyze’s platform in pursuit of its mission to align the world’s investments with each investor’s Risk Number. To learn more, visit www.riskalyze.com.

In order to capture the growth potential of the robotic revolution, the opportunity must be defined from an investor’s perspective - ROBO Global sought out to do just that. As the creator of the first benchmark index to track the global robotics and automation market, ROBO Global brings these solutions to investors.

Through the expertise of its leadership team and strategic advisors, our team searches worldwide to find cutting-edge companies in the space. From healthcare to industrials to aerospace, these companies span across a multitude of industries. By identifying these prospects, we are able to track the global growth of the industry.

The index is comprised of over 80 stocks focused on the entire robotics and automation value chain. The stocks include rapidly developing companies in the global robotics and automation industry, covering over 15 countries across our 13 sub-sectors. With offices in Dallas and London, and indices listed on multiple exchanges, ROBO Global defines and delivers the only index to target robotics and automation.

S-Network Global Indexes, Inc. is a publisher and developer of proprietary and custom indexes. Founded in 1997, S-Network publishes over 200 indexes, which serve as the underlying portfolios for financial products with over USD 7 billion in assets under management.  S-Network indexes, which are supported by a state-of-the-art technology platform, are known for their transparency and efficiency.

S-Network is a leader in socially responsible investment, publishing best-practice benchmark indexes in collaboration with Thomson Reuters.  S-Network published the first global alternative energy and water indexes, which today serve as the recognized benchmarks for those sectors worldwide.  In addition to publishing socially responsible indexes, S-Network produces proprietary environmental, social and governance ratings on nearly 5,000 public companies worldwide.

S-Network publishes a comprehensive suite of benchmark indexes covering US, European, Pacific Basin and emerging markets companies and mirroring the performance characteristics of the most popular indexes.   The benchmark series offers detailed historical data, including daily constituent level data, from December 31, 1999 to the present.  S-Network benchmarks serve as starting universes for smart beta indexes, as institutional-quality performance benchmarks, and as bases for Separately Managed Accounts.

S-Network is a prominent provider of smart beta indexes that incorporate standard market statistics as well as unique and highly specialized proprietary data sets derived from non-traditional sources.  Smart beta indexes developed by S-Network embrace powerful single-factor models as well as complex multi-factor models that incorporate over 200 discrete factors.  All indexes developed by S-Network address and resolve issues such as liquidity, investability and index turnover characteristics.

For more information please visit http://www.snetglobalindexes.com/

USCF operates on the leading edge of product innovation as an asset management firm offering exchange-traded products (ETPs), exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and mutual funds. The firm broke new ground with the launch of the first oil ETP, the United States Oil Fund, LP (USO), in 2006. Over the next decade, USCF designed and issued thirteen more specialty products across commodity and equity asset classes. USCF currently manages approximately $4 billion in assets from its headquarters in Oakland, California.

Vienna Stock Exchange has a long tradition in calculating indices – starting with its first index in 1967 for the Austrian capital market. Successively the index range was expanded with indices for the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as well as for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Therewith the Vienna Stock Exchange was one of the first index providers with a wide range of reliable and transparent CEE and Russian indices. This long-term experience and the profound knowledge of these capital markets in combination with the high potential of that region make its indices an attractive underlying for financial products. In 2018, Vienna Stock Exchange has entered into a strategic partnership with Swiss based index provider Limeyard to offer next-generation global index calculation.

For more than 50 years, CRSP has maintained the level of quality and industry standards introduced by Professors Fisher and Lorie when CRSP was formed. Today, CRSP continues its commitment to providing research quality data for the most rigorous tests in academic research and in backtesting applications by practitioners. In addition, CRSP’s transparent and investable indexes provide the foundation for new areas of research and serve as benchmarks for industry leading investment vehicles. Learn more at www.crsp.chicagobooth.edu.

VanEck is driven by innovation that is informed by the wisdom gained during our 60 year history and the skill and experience of our investment managers. VanEck Funds and VanEck Vectors ETFs are our flagship investment offerings.

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We are focused. Our actively managed VanEck Funds target natural resource equities and commodities, emerging market equities, emerging market debt and liquid alternatives. Security selection is the hallmark of our approach to managing these funds. Our index-based VanEck Vectors ETFs are purpose built, aimed at either providing exposure to asset classes that are underrepresented in investor portfolios or offering a superior approach to established investment categories.

Founded in 1955, we were among the first U.S. money managers helping investors achieve greater diversification through global investing. Today, we offer innovative, actively managed investment portfolios in hard assets, emerging markets, precious metals including gold and other alternative asset classes. Headquartered in New York City, we have a network of offices worldwide, including offices in Sydney (Australia), Shanghai (China), Frankfurt (Germany), Madrid (Spain), and Pfaeffikon (Switzerland).

W.E. Donoghue & Co., LLC (WEDCO) is an SEC registered investment advisor registered in all 50 states.  WEDCO was founded in 1986 to provide professional investment management services to individuals, corporations, and institutions, including trusts, employee benefit plans and retirement plans.

The firm was founded by our visionary Bill Donoghue who has over 40 years of experience in the financial services industry. Bill has brought a unique perspective to the financial advisory industry. As a consumer advocate, Bill has been teaching investors for decades through his 7 books in print including a New York Times Best Seller as well as through his newsletters throughout the years.

Today, WEDCO’s investment committee along with its team of professionals is passionately committed to assisting our advisors in helping them meet their client’s investment objectives. The firm’s solutions have evolved over the years but have been driven by a firm belief that the “buy and hold” approach is not sufficient to help our advisors meet their clients’ objectives of preserving and growing their wealth along with meeting sustainable income needs.

Currently, W.E. Donoghue & Co., LLC has over $1.9 billion in assets under management or under advisement in mutual fund or separately managed accounts serving the needs of our advisors and their clients.

To request our ADV disclosure documents, click here.

NYSE Group is a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses, and a provider of data and listings services.  NYSE Group includes exchanges, market data and connectivity services. The equity exchanges -- the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE MKT and NYSE Arca -- trade more U.S. equity volume than any other exchange group. NYSE is the premier global venue for capital raising, leading worldwide in IPOs, including technology IPOs. NYSE Arca Options and NYSE Amex Options are leading equity options exchanges. To learn more, visit www.nyse.com/index. 

ICE Data Services is a global leader in market data, analytics and connectivity solutions. We offer proprietary market data from a dozen exchanges worldwide, together with indices, fixed-income evaluations and reference data, and we serve the rising demand for more capacity and information with feeds, desktops and connectivity services. Our comprehensive, flexible data solutions provide coverage for global markets across all major asset classes.

FPA's individual members include financial planners, many of whom hold the CFP certification or are pursuing CFP certification. Other individual members include practitioners such as accountants, attorneys, bankers, charitable giving specialists, insurance agents, stockbrokers, money managers, investment consultants, broker-dealer and corporate executives, and others who champion the financial planning process.

FPA is also home to Broker/Dealer Members -- NASD member firms that are in the retail securities business and whose representatives are allowed to offer more than proprietary products.

FPA's Corporate Members include corporations and other entities that provide products and services offered to or through financial advisers.

Women in ETFs is the first women’s group for the ETF industry. Founded in January 2014, WE is a non-profit organization that brings together over 3,200 members, including women and men, in chapters in major financial centers across the United States, Canada, EMEA and Asia Pacific to further the careers of women by leveraging our collective skill and ambition.    WE achieves this by organizing events at our chapters globally that support our goals of education, networking, philanthropy.

Curatia grew out of a genuine need to cut through noisy news cycles and silence the echo chambers of social media.

Launched in 2013, Curatia has steadily grown its readership to include leaders across the finance industry. From exchange executives to fund managers, our subscribers represent some of the most senior decision-makers working in the markets today.

We credit our success to three guiding values:

Independence

Curatia is an independently owned and operated business, giving us the freedom to gather news on any topic from any source.

Experience

Not all news is created equal. With decades of combined experience in finance and trading, we scrutinize each story for trustworthiness, impact and overall quality.

Transparency

You won’t find any algorithms lurking under our hood—just a team of hard-working people who understand the nuances of finance news. We pride ourselves on honest, unbiased curation of the best coverage available.

Debtwire, an Acuris company, is the leading provider of expert news, data and analysis on global leveraged credit. Our end-to-end coverage goes behind the scenes from primary issuance to the first sign of stress through restructuring and beyond. With global breadth and local depth, Debtwire's award-winning editorial, research and legal analyst teams produce original content that helps subscribers make more informed decisions. Subscribers trust Debtwire - the pioneer in the market - for comprehensive coverage across geographies, companies and asset classes. Specifically, Debtwire ABS provides insight into opportunistic situations in the structured finance market ahead of any other mainstream news outlet. In addition to our unparalleled editorial coverage, subscribers may utilize a bid list library alongside primary issuance, commercial real estate (CRE) and NPL databases. With an ever-evolving market, Debtwire ABS tracks and reports on faulty legacy loans as well as emerging asset classes such as marketplace lending.

ETF Advisor magazine is designed to provide financial advisors with news and state-of-the-art analysis about investment strategies utilizing Exchange-Traded Products. Our editorial team examines new investment vehicles and portfolio management techniques in detail, exposing financial advisors to new concepts that increase the value they deliver to their clients.  ETFA is published by Financial Advisor magazine, which reaches 110,000 independent advisors and is rated the most widely read trade magazine for independent reps and RIAs by Erdos & Morgan and also publishes Private Wealth, FA News and ETFA News. FA also produces the Inside Alternatives, Inside Retirement, Invest in Women, Impact Investing and Smart Beta conferences.
For more information visit www.etf-mag.com.

FPR publishes the ETF Business Review, America's leading authority for fund executives and modern asset managers. We provide a top-down dynamic almanac view on the opportunities and threats in the ETP and fund space. We publish 3000 pages of top-down strategic intelligence on 3 continents for our clients, yearly. On average, our subscribers have posted an asset growth of over 125% on an annual basis, since 2009. Many of our clients are Fortune 500 asset managers. FPR was founded in 2009 by Rob Ivanoff, CEO, and a group of ETF and mutual fund market research analysts. We are located in Boston, NYC and Europe.

ETFguide is on a mission to re-introduce the real meaning of investment research that is prudent, pertinent, and timely.

For financial professionals and active traders, our premium research includes ETF trade alerts via text message delivered straight to your mobile device and full coverage of the global $3 trillion ETF marketplace. As vocal champions of financial education, we back it up with a full suite of online courses.

For ETF sponsors, we provide customized research services, product education, and back-end marketing support.

It’s our undying belief that investment portfolios built with ETFs offer both institutional and retail investors the best chance of reaching their unique goals. Moreover, our investing philosophy is summed up in just three words: BUILD, GROW, and PROTECT money.

Family Office Networks is a unique collection of different Family Offices located throughout the world that is able to bring the financial industry and financial professionals to various single family and multi-family office locations. We are able to offer a diverse list of financial management services to millions of wealthy individuals and their families

Family Office Networks and our unique business concept has been around for centuries, allowing us to perfect wealth management and financial management for extremely wealthy individuals world wide. The present day Family Office Networks was first incorporated in the 19th century and includes some of the most renown financial service providers in the industry, like J.P Morgan. Interestingly, J.P Morgan was first started as a single family office under the House of Morgan. Because of the success rate of Family Office Networks, the Rockefellers established their own family office in 1982, which is still in business to this very day. The main objective of the family offices is to maintain and protect families that have large fortunes, trusts and successful family owned businesses. In addition, we offer our members effective and efficient ways to manage family fortunes through specific financial investments and charitable donations, while ensuring confidentiality, risk management consolidation and transparency. Family Office Networks offers two types of family offices for our members, a Single Family Office (SFO) and a Multi-Family Office (MFO).

FPR publishes the ETF Business Review, America's leading authority for fund executives and modern asset managers. We provide a top-down dynamic almanac view on the opportunities and threats in the ETP and fund space. We publish 3000 pages of top-down strategic intelligence on 3 continents for our clients, yearly. On average, our subscribers have posted an asset growth of over 125% on an annual basis, since 2009. Many of our clients are Fortune 500 asset managers. FPR was founded in 2009 by Rob Ivanoff, CEO, and a group of ETF and mutual fund market research analysts. We are located in Boston, NYC and Europe.

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Investing.com is a global financial portal and internet brand composed of 28 editions in 21 languages and mobile apps for Android and iOS that provide news, analysis, streaming quotes and charts, technical data and financial tools about the global financial markets. Each edition covers a broad variety of local and global financial vehicles including Stocks, Bonds, Commodities, Currencies, Interest Rates, Futures and Options. Founded in 2007, Investing.com has a growing readership worldwide and is now a leading global financial portal committed to constantly launching innovative features and sections to ensure an optimal one-stop source for its readers.

Jobs in ETFs is the world's first ETF career platform used by industry professionals globally to obtain access to some of the most exciting jobs within the ETF ecosystem and to confidentially connect with top ETF employers.

Professionals are welcomed to showcase their profile and expertise while keeping up to date with industry news & events, people moves and inspiring interviews with some of the most accomplished ETF people. Employers can customize their profiles, create exciting campaigns to attract talent and present their services.

Visit our flagship website www.jobsinetfs.com to see who is hiring, follow companies and access career-specific content and exclusive interviews.

Money Management Executive provides insight and analysis into the management, marketing, operations and technology used by successful executives at mutual fund, ETF and asset management companies.

The brand reaches a nationwide community of senior decision makers who rely on Money Management Executive as their prime source of news and industry perspective. Money Management Executive also provides intelligence on sales and marketing strategies, compliance issues, methods of operation, useful applications of technology and wide-ranging coverage of strategic changes taking place in asset management.