Gary L. Gastineau
Managing Member
ETF Consultants, LLC
Gary Gastineau organized ETF Consultants LLC in May 2003 to provide
specialized exchange-traded fund consulting services to ETF issuers,
exchanges and other markets, market makers, research organizations and
investors.
Gastineau
is a recognized expert on open-end exchange traded funds. Prior to joining
ETF Advisors, LP, a new ETF management firm, as Managing Director in
May 2002, he was Managing Director for ETF Product Development at Nuveen
Investments. Preceding his tenure at Nuveen, he directed product development
at the American Stock Exchange for approximately five years. As Senior
Vice President in New Product Development, Gastineau was instrumental
in the introduction of many of the popular ETF products which have attracted
more than $150 billion in assets since their first appearance in 1993.
Previously, he held senior positions in research, product development
and portfolio management at major investment banking firms.
His book,
The Exchange-Traded Funds Manual, was published in February 2002 by
Wiley. Gary is also the author of The Options Manual (Third Edition,
McGraw-Hill, 1988), and co-author of the Dictionary of Financial Risk
Management (Fabozzi, 1999) and Equity Flex Options (Fabozzi, 1999),
as well as numerous journal articles. He received the Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacobs
Levy Award for an Outstanding Article for “Equity Index Funds
Have Lost Their Way,” which appeared in the Winter 2002 issue
of The Journal of Portfolio Management.
Gary serves
on the editorial boards of The Journal of Portfolio Management, The
Journal of Derivatives and The Journal of Indexes. Gary is a member
of a number of advisory boards including the Review Board for the Research
Foundation of the Association for Investment Management and Research
(AIMR). He is an honors graduate of both Harvard College and Harvard
Business School.
