Dave Nadig

Financial Futurist, VettaFi

Dave Nadig is the Financial Futurist at VettaFi. He is former Chief Investment Officer and Director of Research of ETF Trends (ETFTrends.com) and ETF Database (ETFdb.com). Dave previously served as the CEO and CIO of ETF.com, where he spent 10 years helping build the editorial, analytics and conference business before those businesses were sold in 2015, when he briefly served as FactSet Research Systems Director of Exchange Traded Funds, the acquiror of the ETF.com Analytics business. 

Dave has been involved in researching, reporting and analyzing the investment management industry for more than 25 years, and recently co-authored a definitive book on ETFs, “A Comprehensive Guide To Exchange Traded Funds” for the CFA Institute.

As a Managing Director at Barclays Global Investors, Dave helped design and market some of the first exchange-traded funds. With partner Don Luskin, he went on to found MetaMarkets.com, a revolutionary transparent mutual fund company that pushed fund disclosure to the top of the SEC agenda. As co-founder at Cerulli Associates in the early ’90s, he conducted some of the earliest research on fee-only financial advisers and the rise of indexing.    Dave is widely quoted in the financial press, a regular speaker at finance conferences, and publishes a widely read blog at ETFTrends.com. He’s has an MBA in Finance from Boston University.