Name: Cryptocurrencies: The Rise of a New Asset Class
Start: 2019-12-09T14:20:00Z
End: 2019-12-09T14:20:02.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 5

At WisdomTree, we deploy smart ways to bring value to the investor by offering flexibility when it comes to investing to meet the many different trading objectives our clients have. Although most of our ETF index strategies in Europe are based on proprietary strategic beta structures, as a firm, we also provide specific market access strategies when we’re able to enhance existing approaches.

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben will be joined by Matt McClintock, Executive Managing Director at Bespoke Group and Sune Sorensen, Head of Asset Management at Bespoke Group, to discuss Wealth and Asset Management.

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Crypto Clarified: Investing in the Truth

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben will be joined by Morgan Krupetsky, Director of Business Development for Institutions and Capital Markets at Ava Labs, to discuss Avalanche and Ava Labs.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto
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Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast
Read our guest's bio: 
Morgan Krupetsky is Director of Business Development for Institutions and Capital Markets at Ava Labs. In her role, Morgan partners with financial institutions in a variety of ways, including by leading education initiatives about Avalanche, providing support for institutional use case deployment on the platform, and facilitating participation in on-chain DeFi. Before joining Ava Labs, Morgan spent 12 years in traditional finance at Citi; she spent the majority of that time on the Institutional FX & Macro sales desk covering Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, and Pension Funds, before transitioning to become Chief of Staff to Citi’s Chief Compliance Officer. Outside of Ava Labs, Morgan enjoys traveling, skiing, and live music.

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben will be joined by Pierre Debru, Head of Quantitative Research & Multi Asset Solutions at WisdomTree and Blake Heimann, Senior Associate, Quantitative Research at WisdomTree, to discuss the nuances of crypto indexing.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto
Subscribe to The Defiant’s newsletter: https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/subscribe
Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben and Cami will be joined by Jason Guthrie, Head of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, to reflect on the events of 2022.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto
Subscribe to The Defiant’s newsletter: https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/subscribe
Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben and Cami will be joined by Peter Van Valkenburgh, Director of Research at Coin Center.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto
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Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast
Read our guest speaker's bio:
Peter is Director of Research at Coin Center, the leading non-profit research and advocacy group focused on the public policy issues facing cryptocurrency technologies such as Bitcoin. He is a graduate of NYU Law, as well as a self-taught web developer.
He drafts the Center’s public regulatory comments, and helps shape its research agenda. He has testified before Congress, briefed staff and members of the EU parliament, and educated policymakers and regulatory staff around the world on the subject of cryptocurrency regulation and decentralized computing systems. Previously, he was a Google Policy Fellow and collaborated with various digital rights organizations on projects related to privacy, surveillance, and digital copyright law.

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Ben will be joined by Lorien Gabel, CEO and Co-founder of Figment.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto
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Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast
Read our guest speaker's bio:
Lorien was born in Malaysia where his dad was curing tropical diseases with the Peace Corps. He spent the next years of his life in Hawaii, San Diego and India before settling in the much more exciting, colorful and exceedingly polite land of Canada.
At the age of 24, Lorien moved his brother Matt's burgeoning internet company from their parent’s basement and over the next four years managed the growth of Interlog, one of Canada’s first commercial ISP’s.
Lorien and Matt teamed up again and co-founded Bird on a Wire Networks, a managed web hosting and data-center provider, which was one of the first of its kind in Canada. Within two years, the company was acquired by AT&T Canada. Their third start-up, Pingg.com, based in New York City, was acquired by 1800-Flowers.
Lorien has also been known to run divisions of Fortune 500 companies, spearhead the exponential US growth of a UK based tech company as Global VP Business Development and serve on the advisory board of a number of start-ups.

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In the next episode, Benjamin and Camila will be joined by Claudia Biancotti, Director in the Economics, Statistics, and Research Department of Banca d’Italia, the Italian Central Bank to discuss the state of Crypto regulation today, what MEV is and why it matters.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto   
Subscribe to The Defiant’s newsletter: https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/subscribe
Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast
Read our guest speaker's bio:
Claudia Biancotti is a Director in the Economics, Statistics, and Research Department of Banca d’Italia, the Italian central bank. She is interested in how digitalization is changing the economy and society, with a focus on security implications and shifts in power balances at the national and international level. Her latest work focuses on cybersecurity, the rise of decentralized systems and cryptoassets, and dual-use technology. Claudia was a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, DC in 2018-2019, and a seconded national expert at the European Central Bank in 2009-2010. She is currently taking a year of personal leave and will get back to the office in the Fall of 2023.

Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In this episode, Benjamin and Camila will discuss the latest on the Ethereum merge and how Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) factors relate to Crypto investing.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto   
Subscribe to The Defiant’s newsletter: https://newsletter.thedefiant.io/subscribe
Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant Media Inc. come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. In the next episode, Benjamin will be joined by Sandeep Nailwal, Co-Founder of Polygon, a global and sustainable Web3 infrastructure built on Ethereum.

Please send questions you have for our hosts and special guest in advance to cryptoclarified@wisdomtree.com.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto   
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Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast
Read our guest speaker's bio:  shorturl.at/deimT

In the next episode of Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, crypto experts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree, Jason Guthrie, Head of Digital Assets, at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of Defiant Media will be joined by Edward Fricker, Legal Advisory & Advocate Services in Crypto-Technology and Offshore Finance. 

Together they will discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space, highlighting:  
• Recent events around crypto brokers, exchanges and hedge funds who have filed for bankruptcy as a result of current market conditions
• The fall of Three Arrows Capital and what this means for institutional investors 
• Similarities/differences between issues faced by Three Arrows Capital, Celsius and Voyager

Please send questions you have for our hosts and special guest, in advance to cryptoclarified@wisdomtree.com.

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto   
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Read our hosts bios: https://www.wisdomtree.eu/en-gb/strategies/crypto-currency/crypto-podcast 
Read Edward P. Fricker's bio: https://edwardfricker.com/

A New Asset Class: Investing in the Digital Asset Ecosystem
 
Blockchain technology supports many megatrends such as decentralised finance (DeFi), Web 3.0, and the metaverse. All can be a source of exponential growth. 

Investing in digital assets is the pure play route to access the space’s growth potential. However this asset class usually sits outside the traditional financial system, unlike 'blockchain equities', and investors might find the learning curve is steep. 

This webinar aims to ease investors’ path to digital asset adoption by addressing three main challenges head-on.
1. Understand the digital asset ecosystem, the different use cases and the economics driving the unique investment cases
2. How to invest in Digital Assets easily and securely when the infrastructure they are built on is so different from traditional assets
3. What are the advantages of Digital Assets in a strategic asset allocation, and why even returns as low as 6% annualised for the asset class could warrant a 1% exposure?

WisdomTree - A New Asset Class: Investing in the Digital Asset Ecosystem

Looking for access to timely, trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information? Join the next episode of Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, where crypto experts Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of The Defiant will discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space, highlighting:  

  • Cardano’s hard fork event - what it means for the network and expectations on how the market will receive the upgrades
  • Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) -  is this a passing fad or is the sky the limit for NFT adoption?

Please send questions you have for our hosts, in advance to cryptoclarified@wisdomtree.com.

Energy transition commodities: Riding the wave of new demand drivers
 
Commodity prices have surged over the past two years yielding considerable margins for producers across a range of markets. The energy transition and expected growth in the battery sector could pose both challenges and significant opportunities across the commodity space.
 
Join this webinar where our in-house expert, Nitesh Shah, Head of Commodities and Macroeconomic Research, Europe at WisdomTree will discuss some of the opportunities opened up by the energy transition. This will be followed by a presentation on the trajectory of mined commodities delivered by Gavin Montgomery, Director – Battery Raw Materials and Adam Woods, Research Analyst, Metals & Mining at Wood Mackenzie.

This webinar will highlight:
+ Macroeconomic trends and risks
+ Market fundamentals and the path towards a commodity supercycle
+ The implications of the energy transition and an accelerated decarbonisation
+ Evolving drivers across commodity supply chains

The webinar will conclude with a live Q&A session.

WisdomTree Energy Transition Webinar with Wood Mackenzie

WisdomTree is proud to present the podcast series, Crypto Clarified: Investing in the truth, your expert led discussion uncovering the truth behind the cryptocurrency headlines and ensuring everyone has access to trusted cryptocurrency and digital asset information. This podcast series is created in partnership with The Defiant, leading experts in the cryptocurrency and digital assets revolution.

Our hosts Jason Guthrie, Head of Digital Assets, Europe at WisdomTree, Benjamin Dean, 
Director of Digital Assets at WisdomTree and Camila Russo, Founder of Defiant Media will come together once a month to discuss the most captivating headlines and trends from the investment into crypto space. Each episode will conclude with a live Q&A session; however you may submit questions in advance to eventseu@wisdomtree.com. 

Visit WisdomTree’s Crypto Insight Centre: https://wisdomtree.eu/crypto   
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Tightening monetary policy doesn’t necessarily preclude equities and fixed income from having a good year. The hawkish pivot by some developed market central banks is telling of a regime change in markets, leading to the fastest rotation from growth into value stocks since the Global Financial Crisis. Diversification will become increasingly important with equity exposures across quality, value, and growth historically providing resilience to portfolios amid a turbulent macro backdrop. In the first half of the webinar, our equity research experts Aneeka Gupta and Mobeen Tahir will discuss the three key themes impacting equity markets in 2022 and how investors can tilt portfolios accordingly.

For bond market participants, the start of 2022 has been marked by a risk-off sentiment driven partly by the start of less accommodative monetary policy for some major central banks. Investors are currently getting paid more for taking risks since the start of the year and this is creating new opportunities in bond markets for asset classes that have previously shown to be more resilient to rising yields. In the second half of the webinar, our fixed income research experts Lidia Treiber, Didier Haenecour, and Piergiacomo Braganti will discuss the three key themes impacting fixed income markets in 2022 and how investors can adapt their portfolios to be more resilient to rising bond yields.

WisdomTree Equity & Fixed Income Outlook – “Building more resilient portfolios”

After a strong year in 2021, the crypto market has been caught-up by the macro backdrop and most crypto assets now sit quite a bit below their highest point in 2021. With high levels of inflation in most developed economies, central banks appear likely to tighten monetary policies quite significantly. In this context, what can we expect from crypto in 2022? Join Alice Liu, Benjamin Dean and Florian Ginez in this podcast to learn what we think are the potential positive and negative catalysts for the market in the coming year.

WisdomTree Crypto Outlook: What Catalysts for Crypto in 2022?

In the year of the Tiger, commodities have gotten off to a roaring start. Even in 2021, commodities had outperformed most major asset classes. The drivers – elevated inflation, an infrastructure boom and an energy transition -  are here to stay in 2022 and beyond. Recent geopolitical events underscore the importance of commodities in hedging against geopolitical shocks. With commodity markets geared to backwardation, we believe that we are in one of the best environments for commodity investing we have seen in a long time. Join Nitesh Shah, Head of Commodity and Macroeconomic Research as he dissects the drivers the commodity renaissance and gives his outlook on the asset class for this year.

WisdomTree Market Outlook: The commodity renaissance

Many megatrends represent a choice. Should a company use cloud-based software, for example. We may have a view, but we have to recognise that it’s not required. Cybersecurity is not an option for a responsible business, especially given the different hacks that we have seen of late. If a business is concerned with the data of its customers and its reputation, then it needs a cybersecurity strategy and cybersecurity investment. Now, the challenge comes in predicting which companies or approaches to cybersecurity will emerge as ‘best’ given the plethora of choices. Hackers will keep seeking to enhance their capabilities, so we believe that a cybersecurity strategy in 2022 must focus on the future and consider not what has worked well in the past 10 years, but where we might be over the coming 10 years.
Highlights:
+ How to think about cybersecurity in the current context
+ Separating recent performance from growth trends
+ Putting recent news, be it hacks or government policy announcements, into the broader framework

Join this webinar to learn more about the cybersecurity megatrend. 

Megatrends are powerful, long-term, transformative changes shaping the world that we live in today. The exciting new developments in technology create a compelling case for the needs of the future and the industries likely to drive global transformation. 

We’re running webinars on megatrends that could transform our society: the biorevolution, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity. Hear from our Global Head of Research on why these megatrends sit at the forefront of technological change and how they could power a portfolio.

Megatrends series - Cybersecurity: This megatrend is not optional

Part 1 of 2 in our crypto video series, where we look at the growing adoption of cryptocurrency and some of the features that come with holding cryptocurrency within the Exchange Traded Product (ETP) structure.

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