Matt Wagner joined WisdomTree in May 2017 as a member of the Research team. He is responsible for research on WisdomTree’s products and communicating the firm’s views on the markets. Matt started his career at Morgan Stanley, working as an analyst in Treasury Capital Markets from 2015 to 2017 where he focused on unsecured funding planning, execution and risk management. Matt graduated from Boston College in 2015 with a B.A. in International Studies with a concentration in Economics. Matt is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
This year, the topic of dividend announcements has elicited more excitement than usual with significant dividend cuts made from a diverse set of household names. Matt Wagner provides a year-end review of dividend performance across all sectors.
Many investors may have significant “home country bias” reflected in their portfolios as a byproduct of years of U.S. outperformance. Matt Wagner makes the case for investors to prepare for a potential turning point in emerging markets in 2021.
Earlier this month, WisdomTree conducted the annual reconstitution for all developed international dividend indexes. Matt Wagner provides a review of the reconstitution of the WisdomTree International Quality Dividend Growth Index.
Rarely have investors seen such large-scale dividend reductions as have happened in 2020. Against this backdrop, we discuss our enhanced composite risk scoring approach, which seeks to help investors tilt away from companies with lower profitability and weak price momentum.
We recently developed several enhanced risk screens that we believe can mitigate the impact of “value traps.” Learn how this new process works and why we felt now was the right time to make this change.
Equities’ recovery from their March lows has been extraordinary but uneven. For investors looking for multiple expansion during a cyclical recovery in equities, Matt Wagner explains why small-cap quality looks far better positioned than large caps.
