Dave Nadig - Financial Futurism

This week on Standard Deviations with Dr. Daniel Crosby, Dr. Crosby is joined by Dave Nadig. ETF industry pioneer Dave Nadig is the Financial Futurist for 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.

Tune in to hear:

- Dave is a “financial futurist.” What in the world is this and what does it look like practically in his day-to-day work?

- What “behavioral hacks” does Dave bring to bear in his own practice when he tries to look out beyond 2 years and how does he try to stay out of his own way when thinking about what the future might look like?

- Can the past be used as a vehicle for better understanding the future or is there not much to learn there and we are forecasting in ineffective ways by relying so heavily on the past?

- What is the place of innovation and cutting edge thinking in an industry that is often at its best when it's at its stodgiest?

- In the recent past we have socialized business failure while individualizing business success. What is it going to take for this Zeitgeist to change?

- Which financial innovations does Dave think hold the most promise? On the flip side – what financial innovations does he think are overrated?

- Learn how Dave connects the dots between the overall lack of institutional trust, “polycrisis” and the crisis of meaning.

- Things like the climate crisis can’t be solved on an individual level. How do we take our institutions back and have an appropriate amount of trust in them as a way to solve some of the biggest problems we face?

- What does the research say about whether or not the current flows into passive vehicles perturbs overall market functioning?

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