Innovation Insights with Cathie Wood, ARK Invest

May 30, 2023

In this episode, our host Andres Rincon speaks with guest Cathie Wood to discuss ARK's five innovation platforms, the future value of artificial intelligence, the most susceptible industries to innovation, the evolution of research, and how investors can best allocate to innovation.

This episode was recorded on May 2, 2023.

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Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest

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Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest

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Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer, ARK Invest

Cathie Wood has over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation. Registering ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014, Cathie founded ARK to focus solely on disruptive innovation while adding new dimensions to research. Through an open approach that cuts across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies, Cathie believes that ARK can identify large-scale investment opportunities in the public markets resulting from technological innovations centered around DNA sequencing, robotics, artificial intelligence, energy storage, and blockchain technology. As Chief Investment Officer (“CIO”) and Portfolio Manager, Cathie led the development of ARK’s philosophy and investment approach and has ultimate responsibility for investment decisions. In 2018, Bloomberg acknowledged Cathie by selecting her to its second annual Bloomberg 50 list of people across business, entertainment, finance, politics, technology, and science who have defined global business.

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Director and Head of ETF Sales and Strategy, TD Securities

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Director and Head of ETF Sales and Strategy, TD Securities

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Director and Head of ETF Sales and Strategy, TD Securities

Andres Rincon heads ETF sales and strategy at TD Securities. His ETF team advises both institutional and wealth investors on the ETF landscape and strategies, publishes a broad array of ETF publications, and works with TD's ETF market making team in facilitating ETF orders. Andres joined TD Securities in 2008, first managing credit risk for the dealer, and later as a member of the Equity Derivatives division. He later took on the task of expanding TD Securities' ETF sales and strategy platform. He is also a Chartered Market Technician (CMT).