PRESS ROOM
WisdomTree Europe Hires Head of Sales
Thursday 27th November '14
Hector McNeil, Co-CEO
ETF Industry Veteran Nick Shellard Adds Depth of Institutional Sales Knowledge and Relationships
WisdomTree, an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (“ETP”) sponsor, and pioneer of dividend-weighted ETFs, announces the hire of Nick Shellard as Head of Sales at WisdomTree Europe.
Nick has over 20 years of ETF and investment banking experience and has held senior roles including Head of ETF & Delta One Sales at Citigroup, EMEA Head of ETF & ETC Sales at Deutsche Bank AG and ETF Country Head of UK & Switzerland at BGI iShares (now known as Blackrock). In addition to these roles, Nick spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley, as Vice President, Portfolio Products, D1 & ETF Sales/Salestrading.
Hector McNeil, Co-CEO of WisdomTree Europe said “Nick is a real heavy-weight in the ETF industry and is a fantastic addition to the WisdomTree Europe team. His experience with iShares and some of the top ETF sell-side houses means he has gained an incredibly in-depth understanding of European buyers of ETFs. Nick’s hire underlines WisdomTree’s ambitions in Europe.”
“Nick’s focus will be on building a market leading pan-European sales team to take the uniqueness of WisdomTree’s fundamentally weighted indexing and dividend focused offering to the European investment community. He will build on the great work that has been done to date and help establish the firm across Europe. We are very excited on how the business is developing.”
| Fund Name | LSE Ticker |
TER (p.a.) |
Index |
| WisdomTree Emerging Markets Equity Income UCITS ETF | DEM | 0.46% | 5.5% |
| WisdomTree Emerging Markets SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF | DGSE | 0.54% | 4.1% |
| WisdomTree Europe Equity Income UCITS ETF | EEI | 0.29% | 5.7% |
| WisdomTree Europe SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF | DFE | 0.38% | 3.9% |
| WisdomTree US Equity Income UCITS ETF | DHS | 0.29% | 3.6% |
| WisdomTree US SmallCap Dividend UCITS ETF | DESE | 0.38% | 3.6% |
Notes to Editors
WisdomTree Investments, Inc., through its subsidiaries in the U.S. and Europe, including WisdomTree Europe Ltd based in London, is an exchange-traded fund (“ETF”) and exchange-traded product (“ETP”) sponsor and asset manager. WisdomTree offers products covering equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities and alternative strategies. Through WisdomTree Europe Ltd, it sponsors WisdomTree UCITS ETFs and BOOST short and leverage ETPs. WisdomTree currently has approximately $40 billion in assets under management globally. For more information, please visit www.wisdomtree.com.
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