Davenadig

ETF industry pioneer Dave Nadig is Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research of ETF Trends and ETF Database. Nadig comes with 25 years of ETF experience, most recently as Managing Director of ETF.com, where he helped grow the business and provide expert commentary for the past decade. Before that, he managed mutual funds at startup MetaMarkets.com, and was a Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors in the 1990s. He’s widely leveraged by media and institutions as a key expert in the field. Dave has been involved in researching, reporting and analyzing the investment management industry for more than 20 years, and recently co-authored a definitive book on ETFs, “A Comprehensive Guide To Exchange-Traded Funds,” for the CFA Institute.

Recent Content By Dave Nadig
Why a Bitcoin ETF Doesn't Matter
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Why a Bitcoin ETF Doesn't Matter

“Even if we win! Even if we play so far over our heads that our noses bleed for a week to...

Polycrisis: Diagnosis to Action
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Polycrisis: From Diagnosis to Action

With Exchange 2024 less than three months away, I’ve started mapping out “the weird session” at...

Exchange 2024: How to Build on Sand?
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Exchange 2024: How Do You Build on Sand?

“America isn’t easy. America is advanced citizenship. You’ve gotta want it bad… We have serious...

The Post-hype Golden Age for AI Has Arrived
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The Post-hype Golden Age for AI Has Arrived. What's Next?

Last quarter, I wrote a column that was critical of the idea of using AI for financial...

Camp Kotok: The Canoe Is Where We Learn
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Camp Kotok: The Canoe Is Where We Learn

Each year, I head to the woods of Maine for an event called “Camp Kotok.” Over the...

Promise and Peril of ChatGPT for Finance
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ChatGPT for Finance: Promise and Peril

Over the past month or so, my inbox and DMs have been flooded with questions about AI, in no...

5 Truths About AI Impact on the Real World
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Future of Finance: 5 Hard Truths About How AI Impacts the Real World

Tired of the AI hype yet? It’s OK, I understand. I’m tired of it too. The pace of...

ChatGPT: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
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ChatGPT: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes

The last month in the development of AI has been a heck of a decade. It’s nearly...

What The World's Most Boring Banking Crisis Means For Portfolios
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What The World's Most Boring Banking Crisis Means For Portfolios

Like you, I have been consuming the daily feeds documenting the restacking of global capitalism....

Setting the Odds on the GBTC Lawsuit
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Setting the Odds on the GBTC Lawsuit

Grayscale is finally getting its long-awaited day in court as it squares up against the SEC...

Tyrone Ross Talks Flat Fees, Bucking Industry Standards
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Tyrone Ross Talks Flat Fees, Bucking Industry Standards

Tyrone Ross is the founder and president of 401 Financial, CEO of crypto-data company Turnqey...

FoF: Tom Morgan on Filtering Signal From Noise
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The Future of Finance: Tom Morgan on Filtering Signal From Noise

Over the past month, I’ve written a bunch about the Future of Finance ahead of the Exchange...

The Future of Finance: Bianco, Stewart, "Hero Ants"
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The Future of Finance: Bianco, Stewart, and Advisors as "Hero Ants"

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been building a framework for our 100-minute “Future of...

The Future of Finance: Butler, Green, DiMartino Booth
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The Future of Finance: Butler, Green, DiMartino Booth

Last time I wrote about the Future of Finance session I’m wrangling at Exchange in two...

The Innovation Angle on VettaFi's TMX Partnership
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The Innovation Angle on VettaFi's TMX Partnership

You might have heard that earlier this week, TMX Group made a minority investment in VettaFi....

Institutional Failure: A Future of Finance Worldview
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Institutional Failure: A Future of Finance Worldview

A week or so ago, I laid out some preliminary thoughts on the agenda for Exchange, the conference...

Welcome to Exchange, Everyone!
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Welcome to Exchange, Everyone!

In case you’ve somehow missed the enthusiasm emanating from our social media handles on LinkedIn...

Professor-Turned-Advisor Boyson on Hedge Fund Activism
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Professor-Turned-Advisor Boyson on Hedge Fund Activism

Doctor Nicole Boyson’s resume is enough to give anyone impostor syndrome. An 18-year...

Bob Pisani on Lessons Learned From the NYSE Floor
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Bob Pisani on Lessons Learned From the NYSE Floor

CNBC’s Bob Pisani has had a unique vantage point to watch the cataclysmic changes modern...

ESG With Microsoft and the Environmental Defense Fund
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ESG With Microsoft and the Environmental Defense Fund

Say what you will about environmental, social, and governance (ESG) focused investing: everyone...

I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PFOF
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I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PFOF

I think it’s a bit of a truism that, as a global population, “Wall Street” as a...

Dave Nadig Talks Labor With Barry Ritholtz, Sam Rines
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Dave Nadig Talks Labor With Barry Ritholtz, Sam Rines

Each year I bring a few thoughts back from David Kotok’s annual gathering of economists,...

Camp Kotok: Sundering Reality Tunnels
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Camp Kotok: Sundering Reality Tunnels

Every year for the last decade, give or take, I’ve joined 30–40 economists, investors,...

Single-Treasury ETFs: Catnip for CurveNerds
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Single-Treasury ETFs: Catnip for CurveNerds

Today marks the launch of the U.S. Benchmark Series of ETFs from F/m Investments, a set of ETFs...

The INDEX Act: The Upcoming ESG Battle Is for Your Vote
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The INDEX Act: The Upcoming ESG Battle Is for Your Vote

“We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who...

The Math Behind Single-Stock ETF Rebalancing
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The Math Behind Single-Stock ETF Rebalancing

With the launch of AXS Investments’ single-stock ETFs, there’s been a veritable mosh...

VettaFi's Mid-Year Research Update: Big Pictures
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VettaFi's Mid-Year Research Update: Big Pictures

We’re awash in mid-year predictions articles right now. Almost all of them will mention...

A Little Bit Less Conversation...
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A Little Bit Less Conversation...

What’s required for us to actually take a non-habitual action? Lately, it’s seemed...

A Redux on The Ethics of Indexing
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A Redux on The Ethics of Indexing

Every so often, the handwringing about indexes destroying the markets gets to a fever pitch, and...

"Financial Literacy" Versus Farm Education
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"Financial Literacy" Versus Farm Education

“Used to play pretend, give each other different names
We would build a rocket ship, and...

FINRAs Complicated Product Proposal: Bad Policy
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FINRAs Complicated Product Proposal: Bad Policy

As I’m packing my bags for Exchange next week, I can’t seem to let go of one minor...

Leaping Into the Metaverse With Matthew Ball
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Leaping Into the Metaverse With Matthew Ball

It’s hard to open up the Wall Street Journal or turn on CNBC for more than an hour and not...

Inside Ritholtz’s Strategies With Michael Batnick
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Inside Ritholtz’s Strategies With Michael Batnick

Michael Batnick is managing partner at Ritholtz Wealth Management, an RIA that serves over 1,000...

Russia: How Shattered Markets Work With ETFs
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Russia: How Shattered Markets Work With ETFs

The Russian stock market is closed, and the Russian economy is rapidly slipping into pariah-state...

BlackRock's New CIO Samara Cohen Talks Indexing Ethics
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BlackRock’s New CIO of ETFs and Index Investments Samara Cohen on the Indexing Ethics

You could be forgiven for not noticing that BlackRock, the world’s largest ETF and index...

Modern Markets -- Enough Juice for the Squeeze?
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Modern Markets -- Enough Juice for the Squeeze?

Nothing gets clicks like a negative headline, and a recent academic paper on ETF model portfolios...

Dasarte Yarnway: The Future of Financial Advice
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Dasarte Yarnway: The Future of Financial Advice

Dasarte Yarnway may not be a household name, but he could be one soon. He’s at the front end of a...

The Most Compelling New ETFs of 2021
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The Most Compelling New ETFs of 2021

I’ll be honest, I was planning on writing up a “year in review” kind of piece,...

Tokenize Absolutely Everything
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Tokenize Absolutely Everything

Here’s the problem with the crypto space right now: There’s quite literally so much...

The MetaVerse: Brave New World or Capitalist Nightmare?
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The MetaVerse: Brave New World or Capitalist Nightmare?

When I heard that Facebook was rebranding itself “Meta” in honor of the Metaverse, I...

New Bitwise Bitcoin Filing Unleashes a Research Bomb
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New Bitwise Bitcoin Filing Unleashes a Research Bomb

Bitwise (vis NYSE) filed (again) a 19b-4 just now for a “GLD for bitcoin”-style...

The Hitch With a Bitcoin Futures ETF
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The Hitch With a Bitcoin Futures ETF

We’re in the countdown for the approval of the first Bitcoin futures ETF, and as I...

Bitcoin Futures ETF: Lucy & The Football?
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Bitcoin Futures ETF: Lucy & The Football?

Those of us nerds who spend a good chunk of our lives making side bets on SEC approvals are in a...

Notes from Camp Kotok: The Ghost Boat

Notes from Camp Kotok: The Ghost Boat

“I feel like my sense of gravity is shifted,” I say. I’m driving from Grand...

The Vanguard Way: Serious Business
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The Vanguard Way: Serious Business

Rich Powers has been at Vanguard since the Clinton administration, and like much of the firm’s...

Is the Fed’s ETF Work Complete?
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Is the Fed’s ETF Work Complete?

As a matter of course, I’m used to examining flows into ETFs to get some insight into investor...

Is the Fed’s ETF Work Complete?
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Is the Fed’s ETF Work Complete?

As a matter of course, I’m used to examining flows into ETFs to get some insight into...

Looking Under the Hood: Growth’s Hidden Bets
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Looking Under the Hood: Growth’s Hidden Bets

An emerging story in this crazy, hyper-volatile market, has been the disparate performance of...

Buffers for Uncertainty: A Conversation with Bruce Bond
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Buffers for Uncertainty: A Conversation with Innovator’s Bruce Bond

Defined outcome ETFs like those from pioneer Innovator Capital Management have performed...

The Fed is Buying Bond ETFs? Now What?
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The Fed is Buying Bond ETFs? Now What?

In case you missed the news, the Fed is now going to be directly buying corporate bonds, muni...

Survey: Advisors Rejecting ETF Issuer Reps
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Survey: Advisors Rejecting ETF Issuer Reps

A recent survey of advisors here at ETF Trends and ETF Database suggests that the traditional...