Matt Wagner, CFA
Associate Director, Research
Matt Wagner joined WisdomTree in May 2017 as an Analyst on the Research team. In his current role as an Associate Director, he supports the creation, maintenance, and reconstitution of our indexes and actively managed ETFs. 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. In 2020, he earned a Certificate in Advanced Valuation from NYU Stern. Matt is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Latest Insights From Matt Wagner
An interesting dichotomy has developed in emerging markets (EM), between government actors and independent investors in publicly traded equities. Government ownership may lead to corporate governance issues that arise from the inherent principal-agent problem and cause operational inefficiencies and weaker levels of profitability.
Japan’s equity market has been overlooked for decades, but recent regime changes are reshaping its appeal. With inflation returning and corporate reforms underway, Japanese equities may offer U.S investors value.
By removing state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from a market capitalization-weighted universe of Chinese equities, the WisdomTree China ex-State-Owned Enterprises Fund (CXSE) offers a unique balance of many of the key characteristics investors look for in a China allocation, with one of the lowest net expense ratios.
