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. He maps the hidden mechanisms driving them, then redirects decisions accordingly.
“If you're the one being offered a product, you need to ask yourself why. At the end of every cycle in my career, it is retail that is looked at to be the exit.”
“My two big issues are liquidity and transparency. We should enforce the liquidity rules — if you cannot trade it and get a price on it intraday, it is not liquid.”
“You're taking what would obviously be wildly volatile assets and marking them once a quarter. Of course those are ridiculous and stupid marks.”
Masters in Business: “At The Money: Blurring the Lines Between Public and Private Investments”
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