Dave Nadig
The Strategist
The long view, patient, analytical, playing several moves ahead.
Dave Nadig earns The Strategist by insisting on structural clarity precisely when product excitement generates the most fog. As President and Director of Research at ETF.com, he has repeatedly warned that retail investors function as the exit in every liquidity cycle, and he pairs that warning with uncompromising definitional standards for transparency. Nadig does not react to market movements.
“Well, no, because ETFs are where everything interesting in the world is still happening. I think that's part of the reason I'm still in the ETF business, although I don't have it in my title anymore, is that regardless of what you're trying to get done with that $100,000 you're trying to make go up, ETFs are probably the right answer unde…”
“People have already done this. This is not news. There's a thing called the set protocol call. You can create a portfolio with a set of rules and you can even put in a fee of how much you want to get paid because you came up with a smart contract. And there's hundreds of thousands of these things out there already.”
“Right over there. Well, no, but actually Moneyball's a great counter example where that's a great narrative. It's a great story. But I think that the lesson some people get out of moneyball is, oh, there was this one sharp kid in the right place at the right time, and he really did something amazing and got just enough people to pay atten…”
“It's not black and white The answers to our problem. And to get really neurophilosophical about it, as human beings, we walk around looking for affordances. And what that word means is like we look for the handle on the cup.”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private Investments”
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