ETF Regulation, Innovation, and What's Next

Something some brand new crazy product we haven't talked about that is actually designed to deceive or is designed to break something in the system. We don't have regulators to step in there. All right, joining me will be Dave Nadig, president and director of research at ETF.com, who of course is a leading independent resource for all things ETFs news analysis.

They have a ton of ETF data and research tools, and Dave himself really needs no introduction. We're talking about a longtime industry veteran going back to the earliest days of ETFs. and he will laugh, but I always say I'm not sure there's anyone walking the face of this earth who knows more about ETFs than Dave does.

He's always one of my favorite people to visit with. And so, we are just going to uh jump around on a variety of topics. So, I will say many of these tie into ETF innovation and regulation and really the current state of the industry overall.

I would say especially given this parade of products coming to market that look much more like gambling vehicles, speculation vehicles than investment vehicles. So, uh, I'll start there this week and then I'll be joined by Paul Bayaki, head of fund sales and strategy at SSNC Alps Advisors, who's a 22 plus billion dollar ETF issuer. And we're also going to spend a few minutes just picking up on the conversation I'll have with Dave because I'm very curious to get an ETF issuers's take on some of this as well, just in terms of this blurring of lines between investing and gambling and whether some of the quote unquote innovation we're seeing in the industry is actually good or whether it's sort of sucking the oxygen out of the room for issuers who are offering real value added products.