Dave Nadig: The ETF Bubble Nobody is Talking About

About this episode

Dave Nadig discusses the hidden risks in the ETF industry with hosts Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick.

The ETF industry has never been more powerful — or more crowded. Dave Nadig, President & Director of Research at ETF.com, joins Pierre Daillie and Mike Philbrick for a no-holds-barred conversation on the structural risks building beneath the surface of the world's most successful financial innovation. From a potential flood of mutual fund conversions to single-stock leverage ETFs, prediction market shenanigans, private credit illiquidity traps, tokenization timelines, AI's impact on the investment industry, and the quiet erosion of the ETF's greatest strength — simplicity — this is the ETF conversation the industry isn't having.

People in this episode

Hosts: Pierre Daillie, Mike Philbrick

Guest: Dave Nadig

Topics covered

• ETF industry
• financial innovation
• structural risks
• mutual fund conversions
• single-stock leverage ETFs
• AI impact
• investment industry

Keywords

• ETF
• financial innovation
• mutual funds
• leverage ETFs
• AI
• investment risks
• tokenization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ETF.com

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