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Fintech Innovation

Aims to provide exposure to fintech innovations including mobile payments, digital wallets, peer-to-peer lending, blockchain technology, and financial risk transformation. These innovations should revolutionize the financial industry, impacting every sector of the global economy.

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Fintech Innovation

Investment Focus

Digital Wallets

Digital Wallets

Mobile Payments

Mobile Payments

Lending

Lending

Risk Transformation

Risk Transformation

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

eCommerce

eCommerce

Overview

  • Type: Active Equity
  • Typical # of Holdings: 35-55
  • Inception: Dec. 2016
  • Portfolio Manager: Catherine Wood
  • Analysts: Max Friedrich
    Will Summerlin
    Yassine Elmandjra
    Yulong Cui

Strategy Description

This actively managed equity strategy seeks long-term capital growth by investing in domestic and foreign equity securities of companies focused on innovations within financial technology (“fintech”). Companies within this strategy are focused on changing the way the financial sector works, removing friction, and increasing accessibility to financial products and services.

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Strategy ETF Managed Account Mutual Funds
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Strategy Characteristics

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Actively managed, high conviction portfolio

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Cross sector, geographies, and market capitalizations

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Benchmark agnostic with low overlap to broad market indicies

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Research process driven by ARK’s Open Research Ecosystem

Investment Team

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer

Catherine Wood

Catherine Wood

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer

Cathie registered ARK Investment Management LLC (“ARK”) as an investment adviser with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in January 2014. With over 40 years of experience identifying and investing in innovation, 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.

Prior to ARK, Cathie spent twelve years at AllianceBernstein as CIO of Global Thematic Strategies where she managed over $5 billion. Cathie joined Alliance Capital from Tupelo Capital Management, a hedge fund she co-founded, which in 2000, managed approximately $800 million in global thematic strategies. Prior to her tenure at Tupelo Capital, she worked for 18 years with Jennison Associates LLC as Chief Economist, Equity Research Analyst, Portfolio Manager and Director. She started her career in Los Angeles, California at The Capital Group as an Assistant Economist. Cathie received her Bachelor of Science, summa cum laude, in Finance and Economics from the University of Southern California in 1981.

Cathie has been recognized as an influential fund manager across various outlets. In 2018, editors at 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. Additionally, Fortune named Cathie to its exclusive roundtable of experts in the annual Fortune Investors Guide: The Best Investing Advice for 2019 From Fortune’s Experts. In 2016, Cathie received the “Women in Finance – Outstanding Contribution Award” from Market Media. Cathie also has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum (China) in 2016 & 2017, the World Strategic Forum (Miami) in 2017, The Sohn Hearts and Minds Investment Leaders Conference (Australia) in 2018 and 2019, and Singularity University’s Exponential Finance in 2017 and Global Summit in 2019.

In 2018, Cathie launched the Duddy Innovation Institute at her alma mater, Notre Dame Academy in Los Angeles. The institute offers a challenging educational experience for young women eager to stretch their learning beyond the boundaries of traditional acquisition of knowledge, while influencing a new way of thinking and learning throughout campus.

*The Adviser did not pay a fee to be considered for or granted any awards. The Adviser did not pay a fee or was required to be a member of an organization to be invited as a speaker at any of the noted events. For full Award Disclosure please go to our Terms & Conditions page. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Nicolaus Copernicus

Catherine’s favorite innovator

Articles from Catherine Wood:

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Artificial Intelligence | Autonomous Vehicles | Bitcoin | Cryptocurrency | Economics | Electric Vehicles | Fintech | Genomics | Market Insights | Market Review

What The Market Overlooked in 2022: A Letter from Cathie Wood, ARK Founder, CEO, & CIO

Economics | Market Insights | Market Review

ARK Extends An Open Letter To The Fed

Brett Winton

Brett Winton

Chief Futurist
ARK Venture Investment Committee Member

Brett Winton

Brett Winton

Chief Futurist
ARK Venture Investment Committee Member

Brett joined ARK in February 2014 and has worked alongside Cathie for almost 15 years since their time at AllianceBernstein. As Chief Futurist, Brett drives ARK’s long-term forecasts across convergent technologies, economies, and asset classes, helping ARK dimension the impact of disruptive innovation as it transforms public equities, private equities, cryptoassets, fixed income, and the global economy. Brett also serves on the ARK Venture Investment Committee. Brett joined ARK as Director of Research, guiding and managing the proprietary research of ARK’s investment team.

Prior to ARK, Brett served as a Vice President and Senior Analyst on the Research on Strategic Change team at AllianceBernstein. In that role, Brett conducted thematic research, served on the thematic portfolio’s strategy committee under Cathie Wood’s stewardship, and advised portfolio managers across asset classes. His research topics included Global Energy in the Face of Carbon Dioxide Regulation; Social Media and the Rise of Facebook; the Reformation of the Financial Services Landscape; and the Emergence of Electric Vehicles.

Brett earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Alexander Winton

Alexander Winton

Brett’s favorite innovator

Maximilian Friedrich

Maximilian Friedrich

Co-Lead, ARK Venture
& Analyst

Maximilian Friedrich

Maximilian Friedrich

Co-Lead, ARK Venture
& Analyst

Max joined ARK as an Analyst for ARK’s Fintech strategy in December 2018. He focuses on payments, digital wallets and the venture capital space. Max also serves as Co-Lead, ARK Venture.

Prior to ARK, he spent nearly two years at Redstone, a Berlin-based venture capital firm. Max also was Research Assistant at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) where he studied the syndication behavior of venture capitalists and subsequent effects on their portfolio companies. Max obtained his Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Heidelberg.

Max has appeared on TD Ameritrade Network and has been quoted in Financial Times, Forbes, CNBC, among other publications.

Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton

Max’s favorite innovator

Articles from Maximilian Friedrich:

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Digital Wallet

Cash App Could Be the Fastest Growing Digital Wallet in the US

Square’s Cash App seems to be the fastest growing digital wallet in the US. As disclosed by Square, the number of Cash App monthly active users (MAUs) has more than tripled in the last two years.

Will Summerlin

Will Summerlin

Co-Lead ARK Venture
& Analyst

Will Summerlin

Will Summerlin

Co-Lead ARK Venture
& Analyst

Will joined ARK in March 2021. As an Internet Analyst, Will’s research focuses on artificial intelligence, software-as-a-service, and the venture capital space. He also serves as Co-Lead, ARK Venture.

Before joining ARK, Will worked in product management at Lyft. Prior to joining Lyft, he was the Founder and CEO of Pinn AI, where he raised $10 million in venture capital and developed an award-winning AI-powered security platform. Will has served as an advisor to AtYourGate, the leading in-airport delivery company, and to Story Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm. Additionally, he has consulted growth-stage startups and large enterprises on strategy, M&A, and product management. Will has been a featured speaker at industry events including the Applied AI Conference, KNOW Identity, Gartner IAM, and Money2020.

Kelly Johnson

Kelly Johnson

Will’s favorite innovator

Articles from Will Summerlin:

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Artificial Intelligence | Market Insights | Market Review

Productivity Gains Could Propel The AI Software Market To $14 Trillion By 2030

Artificial Intelligence | Economics | Market Insights | Market Review | Valuation Models

ARK’s Expected Value For Zoom Video Communications In 2026: $1,500 Per Share

Yassine Elmandjra

Yassine Elmandjra

Crypto Lead

Yassine Elmandjra

Yassine Elmandjra

Crypto Lead

Yassine joined ARK in July 2018. As ARK’s Crypto Lead, Yassine focuses his research on cryptoasset portfolio allocation, cryptoasset institutionalization, and Bitcoin mining.

Prior to ARK, Yassine was a Summer Analyst at Rembrandt Venture Partners, a SaaS focused early stage venture capital firm; and Arena Investors, a registered investment adviser that originates investments with borrowers and other counterparties who need access to financing and are otherwise not able to access conventional sources. Yassine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Wharton and a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering from The School of Engineering.

Yassine has been quoted on Yahoo, Yahoo Finance, Coindesk, Bitcoin Magazine, and Asia Times, among other publications. Additionally, Yassine was a featured speaker at The Fidelity Mining Summit and has been a guest on notable crypto-focused podcasts, including Marty Bent’s Tales from the Crypt, Laura Shin’s Unchained, Bitcoin Magazine, and Anthony Pompliano’s Off The Chain.

Richard Feynman

Richard Feynman

Yassine’s favorite innovator

Articles from Yassine Elmandjra:

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