David J. Abner
Director, Head of Capital Markets, WisdomTree Asset Management, Inc
David Abner is the head of Capital Markets at WisdomTree Asset Management. He is responsible for senior relationship management with the institutional client base focused on trading firms, broker dealers, asset managers and hedge funds. The Capital Markets group is involved in all aspects of the WisdomTree ETFs, from product development through education on best execution techniques and trading strategies for the products.
Prior to joining WisdomTree in 2008, Abner spent two years as a Managing Director and the head of ETF Trading Americas at BNP Paribas. Abner started his career at Bear Stearns in 1992. While at Bear Stearns, he managed the Closed End Fund trading group, traded Japanese convertible bonds, Asian equities and in 2000 was tasked with building the ETF trading business, which he ran until his departure from the firm in 2006.
Abner holds an MS in Management and a BA in Economics from Stony Brook University on Long Island. He is the author of ‘The ETF Handbook’ (Wiley, 2010) and ‘The Visual Guide to ETFs (Bloomberg, Summer 2012). He is a respected expert with 20 years of industry experience who speaks globally about the ETF industry and techniques for trading Exchange Traded Funds, and is a trusted trading advisor to portfolio managers around the world.
