ETF Think Tank

Join us for an opportunity to brainstorm and collaborate with ETF industry leaders on lessons learned from their experience in the ETF industry and insights on future developments, including non-transparent active ETFs. This program is sponsored by K&L Gates and is free to attend, but space will be limited to the first 100 people. Additional participants are invited to join via a live webinar.

Agenda topics will include:

• A Crash Course in Launching An ETF: Choosing service providers, refining your strategy, and trends and innovations in product and index development.
• Hot Legal Topics: How the “Fiduciary Rule” will affect (and potentially benefit) ETFs and the ETF-unique aspects of the SEC’s new liquidity and reporting rules.
• Porting Performance: Put your past performance to work for your new ETF.
• Hot Business Topics: The business case for and regulatory issues presented by non-transparent active ETFs, custom baskets and the like.
• Compliance and Enforcement: Designing an ETF compliance program and lessons from recent SEC and FINRA enforcement actions.
• Board Oversight of ETFs: Current ETF trustees and trustee counsel highlight ETF-specific board reports and considerations.
• Distribution: Lessons learned by ETF distribution veterans (what they would -- and wouldn’t -- have done differently), as well as current ETF distribution and marketing trends.

The conference will be hosted by Stacy Fuller and Peter Shea of K&L Gates and feature panelists representing a broad array of ETF industry participants, including:

• Mark Abssy, NYSE
• Charles Biderman, TrimTabs Asset Management
• Steve Byers, DBX ETF Trust
• Tom Champion, NYSE
• Steve Cook, BNY Mellon
• John Flanagan, Independent Trustee of Absolute Shares Trust
• Deborah Fuhr, ETFGI
• Adam Grealish, Betterment
• Jane Heinrichs, Investment Company Institute
• Chris Hempstead, KCG 
• Frank Koudelka, State Street
• Erik Liik, ETF Consultant
• Scott Livingston, T. Rowe Price
• Kristi Maher, First Trust
• Brian Murphy, Vanguard
• Kyle Murray, BATS
• Steve O’Grady, Virtus ETF Trusts
• Will Rhind, GraniteShares
• Donna Rogers, Foreside Compliance
• Beth Savino, PricewaterhouseCoopers  
• David Smith, Mutual Fund Directors Forum
• Robert Tull, ETF Consultant
• Dave Whitaker, Foreside

Agenda

• Registration: 9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
• Program: 10:00 a.m. - 5:45 p.m.
• Cocktail reception: 5:45 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Please note that this event will be closed to SEC personnel and other industry regulators. We appreciate your attention to and understanding of this matter.