September 28, 2021

Trends with Benefits #65: Investing in Sustainable Communities with R. Paul Herman of HIP Investor

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed speaks with R. Paul Herman, CEO and Founder of HIP Investor about the risks of climate change and the growing demand for investments in sustainable projects.

September 24, 2021

Trends with Benefits Celebrates Climate Week

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Awareness around climate change has increased the need for sustainable investing. We celebrate climate week by highlighting a few of our favorite sustainable episodes.

September 07, 2021

Trends with Benefits #64: Institutions Embrace Crypto with Lauren Abendschein

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed speaks with Lauren Abendschein, Head of Institutional Sales at Coinbase about the inner workings of crypto exchanges and why institutions are becoming more comfortable with crypto.

August 25, 2021

Trends with Benefits #63: Closing America’s Wealth Gap with Calvin Williams Jr.

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed speaks with Calvin Williams Jr., CEO and Founder of Freeman Capital about entrepreneurship, building a wealth management practice and his mission of closing the wealth gap in America.

August 20, 2021

Trends with Benefits #62: LIVE- All Things Crypto with Jan van Eck

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

This week's special episode was a live event. Ed speaks with our CEO, Jan van Eck about cryptocurrency, the disruption of financial services and the investment opportunities being created.

August 12, 2021

Trends with Benefits #61: A Long Term Approach to Investing with Joe Terranova

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed is joined by Joe Terranova, CNBC contributor on the Halftime Report, Senior Managing Director of Virtus Investment Partners and author of Buy High, Sell Higher to discuss the outlook for long-term investments in today's market.

August 04, 2021

Trends with Benefits #60: Green Bonds with Sean Kidney

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed speaks with Sean Kidney, CEO of the Climate Bonds Initiative ("CBI") about current trends in the green bonds market and the outlook of sustainable finance.

July 26, 2021

Trends with Benefits Recap: Crypto Series Roundup

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Understanding the world of bitcoin can be intimidating, largely in part to it having its own language. This year we decided to produce a special podcast series, dedicated to bitcoin education.

July 15, 2021

Trends with Benefits #59: What is Sustainable Investing

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

In this episode I speak with Veronica Zhang, Analyst and Deputy Portfolio Manager at VanEck about the trends in sustainable investing and key themes investors should be paying attention to.

June 29, 2021

Trends with Benefits #58: [Crypto Series 4] - Bad Actors in Bitcoin with Jake Chervinsky

by Ed Lopez, Head of ETF Product

Ed speaks with Jake Chervinsky, General Counsel at Compound Labs Inc. about bad actors in bitcoin and what he's hearing from lawmakers on crypto regulations.