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.