NYSE:WT WisdomTree Q1 2024 Earnings Report $8.72 +0.04 (+0.46%) Closing price 04/28/2025 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$8.70 -0.02 (-0.23%) As of 04/28/2025 06:30 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Polygon.io. Learn more. Earnings HistoryForecast WisdomTree EPS ResultsActual EPS$0.12Consensus EPS $0.11Beat/MissBeat by +$0.01One Year Ago EPS$0.07WisdomTree Revenue ResultsActual Revenue$96.84 millionExpected Revenue$94.32 millionBeat/MissBeat by +$2.52 millionYoY Revenue Growth+18.00%WisdomTree Announcement DetailsQuarterQ1 2024Date4/26/2024TimeBefore Market OpensConference Call DateFriday, April 26, 2024Conference Call Time11:00AM ETUpcoming EarningsWisdomTree's Q1 2025 earnings is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2025, with a conference call scheduled at 11:00 AM ET. Check back for transcripts, audio, and key financial metrics as they become available.Q1 2025 Earnings ReportConference Call ResourcesConference Call AudioConference Call TranscriptSlide DeckPress Release (8-K)Quarterly Report (10-Q)Earnings HistoryCompany ProfileSlide DeckFull Screen Slide DeckPowered by WisdomTree Q1 2024 Earnings Call TranscriptProvided by QuartrApril 26, 2024 ShareLink copied to clipboard.There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Greetings. Welcome to the WisdomTree First Quarter 20 24 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference today is being recorded. Operator00:00:22At this time, I'll turn the conference over to Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Jessica, you may begin. Speaker 100:00:30Good morning. Before we begin, I would like to reference our legal disclaimer available in today's presentation. This presentation may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in forward looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks set forth in this presentation and in the Risk Factors section of WisdomTree's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2023. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:12Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree's CFO, Brian Edmondson. Speaker 200:01:20Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. Let me begin by sharing our results for the Q1 along with commentary on our expense guidance before turning the call over to Jarrett and Jono for additional updates on our business. We continue to demonstrate our ability to grow organically, having generated $2,000,000,000 of net inflows during the quarter. Sustainable flows have been a continuing theme with over 3 years of positive momentum and our results this quarter illustrate the breadth and depth of our product lineup and serve as a proof point in our ability to put points on the board away from USFR. Our $2,000,000,000 of inflows were broad and diverse and generally into products with higher fees, which has remixed our blended fee rate higher, setting the table for higher revenue capture for the Q2. Speaker 200:02:10Our inflows coupled with positive market movement resulted in us ending the quarter with record AUM of 107,200,000,000 This is driving revenue growth and expanding margins, demonstrating the scalability of our business model. Continuing organic growth coupled with disciplined expense and capital management alongside positive market conditions is the formula for further margin expansion and accelerated EPS growth. Next slide. Revenues were $96,800,000 an increase of 6.6% in the 4th quarter and up 18% from the prior year quarter, driven by higher average AUM. We have also observed adjusted operating margins expanding over 8 20 basis points versus the Q1 of last year or 2 80 basis points organically when adjusting for the impact of our gold royalty buyout, which we accomplished in the Q2 of last year. Speaker 200:03:11Our adjusted net income for the quarter was $20,300,000 or $0.12 a share. Next slide. Our adjusted operating expenses were up 5% for the quarter. The largest contributor was compensation as we experienced elevated seasonality in the amount of compensation we report in the Q1 due to payroll taxes, benefits and other items in connection with the payment of year end bonuses. Fund management expenses were also higher, driven by higher average AUM. Speaker 200:03:44Next slide. Now, a few comments on our forecasted expense guidance. Our forecasted compensation expense remains unchanged ranging from $108,000,000 to $118,000,000 This guidance considers variability in incentive compensation with drivers including the magnitude of our flows, revenue and operating income growth, margin expansion and our share price performance in relation to our peers. Where we sit today, the quarter into the year and given a strong start, we Q1. We are reiterating our full year discretionary spending guidance of $64,000,000 to $68,000,000 as we anticipate an uptick in marketing spend in connection with our national rollout within Tree Prime. Speaker 200:04:40We reported a gross margin of 79.4% in the Q1. We are maintaining our gross margin guidance of 79% to 80%, considering current AUM levels and fund launches anticipated during the course of the year. If AUM scales higher from continued organic growth or favorable margin conditions, we would anticipate further gross margin expansion. Our third party distribution expense was $2,300,000 in the Q1. We are maintaining our guidance of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 for the year. Speaker 200:05:12We are also maintaining our annual adjusted interest expense guidance of $14,000,000 As a reminder, our adjusted interest expense guidance is exclusive of any interest costs we are required to impute under GAAP related to our interest refinancing of the shares we repurchased from the World Gold Council last November. Our interest income during the Q1 was 1,400,000 dollars We are increasing our interest income guidance for the year by $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 based upon the magnitude of our forecasted interest earning assets. Our adjusted tax rate was 24.9 percent in the Q1 and our guidance of 24% to 25% remains unchanged. And our weighted average diluted shares were 165,300,000 during the Q1 and our guidance of 166 to $168,000,000 for the year remains unchanged as well. That said, this guidance does not take into consideration any incremental shares associated with our convertible notes. Speaker 200:06:20Our current stock price of roughly $9 per share is up over 30% year to date and is approaching the $9.54 conversion price related to our convertible notes scheduled to mature in 2028. While the notes require principal to be paid in cash, our diluted shares would need to be increased for any incremental shares associated with the conversion option once our stock price exceeds $9.54 per share. An illustration is included within our earnings presentation to assist in quantifying the incremental shares associated with the conversion option going forward. That's all I have. I will now turn the call over to Jared. Speaker 300:07:04All right. Thanks, Brian, and good morning, everyone. We are excited to report another strong quarter with robust net inflows, record AUM and expanding operating margins, which all reflect our continued leadership in delivering innovative products and solutions for every market environment in every part of the cycle. We're also excited about our progress in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance, which are reshaping the future of our industry and creating new opportunities for growth and value creation. As Brian mentioned, Q1 started with nearly $2,000,000,000 of net inflows driven by the breadth and depth of our product lineup, especially in higher fee funds. Speaker 300:07:55Our India earnings fund and our currency hedge strategies attracted strong demand as did commodity funds such as silver and copper. In total, the fee rate on our gross inflows was 49 basis points, which helped drive our overall blended fees higher. Combined with a supportive market, we ended Q1 with record AUM of $107,200,000,000 up 18.2% year over year and 7.1% sequentially. We are proud of these results, which reflect our ability to deliver consistent and diversified growth across our product suite. Models also continue to be a steady growth driver. Speaker 300:08:44As a reminder, our approach is to grow the number advisors who have access to our models, while also further penetrating that market and growing the number of advisors actively using WisdomTree models. Based on our current pipeline, we expect our accessible market to grow to about 80,000 advisors by year end. That's up from 70,000 at the end of last year. Additionally, after adding 1,000 new advisor model users in 2023, we're on track to maintain that cadence of new advisor growth in 2024. The ongoing traction in models has driven growth in model AUM to about $3,500,000,000 at the end of March outpacing the growth of our firm wide AUM. Speaker 300:09:38Overall, we remain very bullish on the long runway for model assets growth in the quarters years ahead. We're also pleased to report that we delivered another strong quarter in margin expansion and earnings growth, demonstrating our scalable operating model and our ability to leverage our AUM growth. Our total operating margin increased by 820 basis points year over year to 30 percent of which 540 basis points was from smart deal making and opportunistically buying out the gold royalty payment last spring and 280 basis points was organically driven by growth and operational efficiency. Our adjusted earnings per share increased by 71% year over year to $0.12 reflecting top line growth and margin expansion dropping to the bottom line. We remain focused on driving expanded operating margins and earnings growth in 2024 and beyond. Speaker 300:10:46And we continue to believe that tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance represent a huge growth opportunity for WisdomTree as they open new markets, attract new customers and create new revenue streams. Back in 2020, we talked about our AUM growth opportunity driven by our diversified product suite models. We talked about our scalable operating model and how growth and operational efficiency would drive margin expansion. And we talked about the potential of tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. Each quarter since we have delivered on those opportunities and each quarter our growth momentum shines brighter, our margins have been expanding and we further solidify our position in tokenized assets. Speaker 300:11:39We used to be alone in talking about many of these themes, but now we have some company. We like to say that if you want to know what the industry is going to do tomorrow, look at what WisdomTree is doing today. In conclusion, we are confident that we have the right strategy, the right products, the right team, and the right culture to continue to create value for our clients and shareholders in the long term. We remain extremely bullish about 2024 and beyond and we continue to drive organic growth, expand our margins and lead the industry's evolution in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. And with that, let me now turn it over to Jono. Speaker 400:12:26Thank you, Jarrett, and good morning, everyone. It's been a great start to the year. Record AUM, strong flows, higher fees, 8 20 basis points of margin expansion driving a 71% increase in earnings per share versus the Q1 of last year. We are executing on the key drivers that will propel the next $100,000,000,000 of AUM growth. Those drivers being ETFs, model portfolios, tokenization and WisdomTree Prime. Speaker 400:13:02Importantly, I want to remind everyone that all of the digital spend, including marketing is fully baked into our guidance for 2024. It's important to remember as marketing really begins in early May. Now the most important milestone in the quarter was the receipt of WisdomTree's trust charter from the New York State Department of Financial Services. DFS is the premier regulator for digital asset businesses in the U. S. Speaker 400:13:36And the operation of a trust company in this space has been a core component of our strategy. Simply put, we think that the Trust Company is a strong counterparty for our retail and institutional customers, and we think it will open up a number of business opportunities for us going forward. More specifically, the trust charter does 2 things for us. First, it allows us to onboard New York customers to WisdomTree Prime. 2nd, the trust company gives us the ability to offer products and perform services under DFS supervision with associated legal protections. Speaker 400:14:21Specifically, the trust company can perform fiduciary custody of digital assets, issue DFS approved stablecoins and manage stablecoin reserves. Now from an availability perspective and including the upcoming launch in New York, 75% of the U. S. Population across 41 states have access to WisdomTree Prime. On the product and feature front, we also hit another key milestone in the Q1 with the launch of our debit card to Prime users. Speaker 400:15:02The card is available both physically and digitally through Apple and Google Pay platforms and ties a WisdomTree Prime customer's asset balance to the payment ecosystem. Initially customers will be able to auto debit from the dollar token balances, but we will expand that functionality to other asset classes like our money market fund, gold and crypto in the coming quarters. With the trust charter and the launch of the debit card, as I already mentioned, in early May, we will be increasing our marketing efforts going forward. It's too early to share any takeaways, but this is the effort that will generate further downloads, funded accounts and activity. This is the beginning. Speaker 400:15:55We are seeing increasing interest in tokenization in the asset management space as many of you may have noted. Our combination of retail and institutional distribution, our regulatory licenses and our broad suite of tokenized assets and funds across asset classes positions us as the early leader in the space. We are looking to press this advantage in the coming months. This is only the beginning. As I continue to mention in recent calls, it's a very exciting time for WisdomTree. Speaker 400:16:36We have best in class organic growth, a meaningful margin expansion opportunity and leverage to the secular shift towards tokenization. Now let's turn the call over to Jeremy Campbell, WisdomTree's Head of Investor Relations. Speaker 200:16:56All right. Thank you, Jono, and good morning, everybody. Operator, let's open up the lines and go directly to some questions from our analysts. Operator00:17:29Thank you. And our first question is coming from the line of Adam Beattie with UBS. Please proceed with your questions. Speaker 500:17:36Thank you and good morning. I wanted to ask as you roll out Prime and some of the retail initiatives, there have been some prominent examples in recent years of other firms trying to go from an institutional setup to a more retail approach and then backing away from that strategy. So just wanted to get your thoughts on obviously, you've seen that studied it, how WisdomTree's offering is differentiated and how you'll succeed there? Thanks. Speaker 400:18:05Thank you. So, Adam, let me start and then maybe Will, you'll jump in. First, I'd say that WisdomTree is already and has from the very beginning been a direct to consumer brand within investments. So online brokerage accounts had seen our TV ads starting 17 years ago and have been interacting with us on a direct to retail basis from the very beginning. This is fully integrated into what we're doing with Prime, further delves into the consumer space for sure. Speaker 400:18:48It isn't a new business line though. It really is built on the infrastructure of the core business and we're starting with the sort of the low hanging fruit of investors, people most interested in money, people that we've known or gotten to know over the course of the past 20 years, and it will build incrementally over time. But by keeping our costs extremely low, as we do this, I think that we'll be able to find a cost effective marketing message. And that's the reason for the early testing in small incremental bites, which is what we said from the very beginning. And so what we're talking about it in May is just an increase in marketing spend and it will just continue to be increased in incremental ways through the for the rest of the year. Speaker 400:19:40But Will, what would you add to that? No, I Speaker 200:19:43think a lot of that was covered well, Jono. I'd just add, we're doing both. And I think they're mutually kind of beneficial and self reinforcing. I mean, one of the cool parts about our tokenization platform is it's the same platform being applied both to retail and institutional. We've spoken a lot about Prime, but we're going to be have more announcements coming up for that institutional portal that we've alluded to in the past. Speaker 200:20:07So it's both in there, both mutually self reinforcing and there's a good flywheel effect from both of them. Speaker 500:20:15Fair enough. Yes, I appreciate the context around direct to retail. And I want to follow-up on kind of the flywheel effect on the synergies. One of the things that we sometimes hear from investors is there tends to be a mentality and we'll just sort of address the point a little bit, but there tends to be a mentality of Prime and tokenization being separate from the core business of WisdomTree. So maybe if you could talk a little bit about the synergies and how some of the marketing spend might help your legacy business as well? Speaker 500:20:43Thanks. Speaker 400:20:46Will, should I take that? Speaker 200:20:48Go ahead. I'll start, Jono. I'm happy to start. I mean, I think that it's completely leveraging the core competencies of WisdomTree, right? A tokenized fund or a tokenized asset looks very similar in a lot of ways, right, to like an exchange traded product. Speaker 200:21:02It's a instead of being listed on the New York Stock Exchange or fixed in Switzerland, it could be listed on a kind of available on blockchain. So it's very similar core competencies to what we have. I think maybe a different distribution set right now, but it's definitely leveraging kind of what WisdomTree does today. Speaker 400:21:24I would just add Sorry, go ahead, John. We're just tapping into regulatory prowess, product development prowess, marketing prowess, even our engineering team, which have been building the solutions business of the core business has been tapped and expanded to help with the user interface and other elements of the technology builds of our digital assets. And so synergy all along, as well as overlapping vendor relationship management. So those are some of the elements that just come to mind in terms of how well the WisdomTree footprint was or is for trying to tackle the digital asset opportunity. Speaker 500:22:11Got it. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Operator00:22:16Our next question is from the line of Keith Housum with Northcoast Research. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 200:22:21Good morning, guys. So I appreciate the commentary on WisdomTree, but if we come back to the ETF part of the business, perhaps, Jonah, you can give a little summary about the new product creation over the past, say, 4 or 5 quarters and then what the vision is for new product creation going forward? Speaker 400:22:38Well, I'm going to I'll very, very quickly touch on it. But Jeremy Schwartz, I'll turn it over to you. One of the things that we've done and we is expanded one of our internal brands quality as a family and as a foundational factor that we build a lot of our funds on. We started by not only did the original factor funds overweight to quality, but then we built a more specific quality family. We started with quality dividend growth, our largest equity fund. Speaker 400:23:13We've taken that internationally in recent years into the usage format. And we recently over the last year launched Quality Growth, which has had just an extraordinary performance in this past quarter, Q1 or maybe it's actually even more recently than that, it could have been in the quarter that we launched the UCED version of Quality Growth. But Jeremy, why don't you talk a little bit more about some of the product strategies that we've launched recently? Speaker 600:23:44Yes. We've been continually trying to diversify the product set for market environments where you have something in all market environments. And I think what you've seen with quality growth and our investment in thematics is that exact playing out. In our usage family, we have about $1,500,000,000 in thematics across over 10 different, you say more sector specific versions of not just the tech sector, but cloud and cyber and AI. And so now you have a real growth led type of fund family you can compete in. Speaker 600:24:20And in the U. S, we have almost $1,000,000,000 in that thematic range. So $2,500,000,000 in these sort of sector specific growth areas. The quality dividend growth family in the firm is up to almost $15,000,000,000 across the U. S. Speaker 600:24:36And Europe or maybe even more than $15,000,000,000 across that family and is taking a lot of those inflows. And we're going to continue to broaden out how do we go beyond USFR for fixed income. We've been investing in broader enhanced yield indexes for bringing a longer duration exposures and our efficient core family for equities, which combines stocks with bond futures is another way people can add duration to portfolios. And we're seeing that both in the U. S. Speaker 600:25:04And recently launched that in Europe. So we continue to try to be innovative in the funds that we launch and try to help diversify the overall business with that approach. Speaker 200:25:15Great. If I can follow-up there, and I'm sure AUM is the easiest way to measure success in some of these new funds. But how do you guys evaluate the success of these funds outside of just AUM growth? Speaker 500:25:30Maybe I Speaker 300:25:31can jump in. This is well, this is Jared jumping in for just a quick one. I think and Jeremy you can talk about measuring the new launches. But our overall strategy is about growth. And so growth is about having that diversified product suite and then enhancing it with innovative launches. Speaker 300:25:55And that's been a strategy that's been working for us very well over the last several years where we're looking to generally launch about 20 new funds a year and we're not changing that. That's sort of the pace we're looking at this year as well. And again, it's a strategy that's working well for us as evidenced by more than 3 years of consistent organic growth that really is leading the industry in terms of organic growth. So it's a very sound strategy and we're continuing with it. Speaker 600:26:30Jeremy, do you want to add any? The only thing I would say is in addition to the individual products, we continue to launch more models and you'll hear us we talk about how to get diversified flow. It's going beyond the single ticker sale in the model portfolio business is really the best way. And we continue to launch innovative models as well. Certainly, we've had a lot of success with the Seagull branded models for the big platforms and that's also part of our Prime offering is Seagull Token Fund, which is the overlap between sort of the prime business and the traditional business and how they there is synergies there. Speaker 600:27:04But we continue to launch very interesting new models that leverage our new funds. So I think you'll see you can see that as another source of growth for us. Speaker 200:27:14Great. Thank you. Operator00:27:18Our next question is from the line of Michael Cyprys with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question. Great. Speaker 700:27:24Thank you. I wanted to dig in a bit on the models if we could. I was hoping you could maybe talk to some of the steps you're taking to drive greater adoption with new advisors using your models? I think you mentioned that 70,000 advisors right now is sort of the accessible market. I understand that's likely to expand this year. Speaker 700:27:43Just curious how penetrated you are within that 70,000 in terms of the number that are actually using your models and some of the talk about some of the steps that you're taking to improve that penetration? Speaker 400:27:54Garrett? Speaker 300:27:56Yes. Well, that's one of our major focuses. And we talked about it last quarter that it's there's a formula there. We want to expand the accessible market. So those are the number of financial advisors that can access our models. Speaker 300:28:18And at the end of the year, that was at 70,000. And then, of course, you want to penetrate that accessible market. And as of the end of last year, we had taken a number to 2,000 advisors. So our penetration was under 3%. And that's one of the exciting things is that, we still have a lot more of that addressable market to penetrate. Speaker 300:28:44Now so far this year, we've already seen growth on both. We're growing the accessible market. And today, the accessible market, we've been really successful on getting on to some of the best platforms with the firms that are most focused on this trend. So we're on Merrill's platform, Morgan Stanley's platform, LPL's platform. And that's a big part of the effort. Speaker 300:29:08How do we get on more platforms and grow our accessible market. But then the game is on, and now your the door is open and you have to walk through it and start convincing the individual advisors of how good our product is. And that's done with very good sales, a lot of great research, a lot of great models, as Jeremy mentioned earlier. We've got a not so secret weapon with Jeremy Siegel. And we go in and we try to win the hearts and minds. Speaker 300:29:42And last year, we took our the number of advisers using our models. We doubled the number from 1,000 to 2,000. We were adding roughly 250 new advisors per quarter. We're on that same pace this year. So another great thing about this business is you have real visibility into the pipeline. Speaker 300:30:08So already out there, as we said in the prepared remarks, we have great visibility that that accessible market, we expect it to be 80,000 and possibly more by the end of the year by just what we know is in the pipeline. And then we also can see that we're growing our penetration. And another thing is just sort of the seasoning. We know when someone starts on their 1st day with one of our models, it might be for one of their clients and they're testing it out. And we know as they get more comfortable, they start using the models for a bigger portion of that client's portfolio and then start adding more clients. Speaker 300:30:54And so we're at the very early stages because, a lot of the advisers that have started with us are early in the seasoning process. So I've given you a lot there, but we're growing the addressable market, we're growing our penetration, and we're also beginning to seize in those advisors that we've onboarded. Speaker 700:31:16Great. Thanks so much. And just a follow-up question on Wisdom Tree Prime. I was hoping you could maybe talk about your go to market strategy, talk about some of the steps that you're going to be taking to bring awareness to the offering and bring customers directly to WisdomTree? And what does sort of success look like to you as you look out over the next couple of years and understand to your earlier comment that you've been a D2C business for a bit, but maybe you could just remind us on what portion of the ETFs today are held in self directed brokerage accounts? Speaker 700:31:45Thanks. Speaker 400:31:47Will, do you want to start? Speaker 200:31:50Yes. I'm happy to start and then if you have anything else you can just add, John. I think it was just that, it's what you've been talking about in the past, lean marketing focusing on digital and organic first. So that could be targeting app store, search ads, things like that for people who are looking at some of the themes that we've got. A very clear example of that would be digital gold. Speaker 200:32:11Is a large universe of people out there who are find gold very appealing. A digital gold product with instant settlement is appealing to them. We want to target that user and continue to monetize that user. So that's the type of people that we're going to be targeting in addition to the organic and press strategy that we've got going on as well. And a big piece of that has been adding features and also adding states and being available to additional people in the U. Speaker 200:32:34S. So the New York TrustCo announcement was a big part of that. Being open to New York customers in the coming weeks will be a big part of that. So that's the type of marketing strategy that we're going to be leaning into. Speaker 400:32:48And I would say from a penetration on the core business to retail just AUM, it's something I don't have an exact, but sort of a $9,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 Speaker 300:33:01number. Yes, Speaker 400:33:02dollars 9,000,000,000 number out of the total with the U. S. Being more retail oriented than Europe. Speaker 700:33:13And that $9,000,000,000 in brokerage self directed? Speaker 400:33:17Yes. Speaker 700:33:18Great. Thank you. Operator00:33:23Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 200:33:33Good morning. This is Adam on for George. Thanks for taking my questions. With respect to WisdomTree Prime and the receivable of the MYDFS approval, I was curious, has this helped push forward any of the conversation with respect to 3rd party white labeling? Speaker 400:33:49Will, do you want to start? Speaker 200:33:51Yes. Yes, it would. Now I think the like Jono said earlier in the call, the trust charter opens up New York customers to us, but it's also a really strong regulated counterparty for people to be dealing business with. So on lots of B2B and B2B2C opportunities, the trust charter is a great kind of way to do that. And you actually see other businesses in the market today who have that trust charter, who have lots of white labeling style strategies around that. Speaker 200:34:21That very much is a good step along that kind of just white labeling, but B2B and B2B2C more broadly. Great. And then I know it's early days with respect to the debit card offering, but I was curious if there's any insights you could share about the initial response from existing users? Initial response has been great. Yes, sorry, John, just jump in there. Speaker 200:34:45It's actually been very helpful in terms of our marketing strategy. We've seen an uptick with debit card messaging. We're seeing people open the cards, beginning to spend on it. So the debit card has been a it's always been a key component of it and that's being borne out in the marketing so far. Great. Speaker 200:35:02And then just with respect to flow so far through Q2, obviously there's a little bit of a headwind in the European business. Just curious if you had any additional color on what's driving that? Speaker 400:35:14Jeremy or Jared, do Speaker 600:35:16you want to start? 1 of you? Speaker 300:35:20Sure. I can give a start and Jared you jump in. What we've seen is some money in motion. You've seen some repositioning, especially in commodities. So you've seen some big moves. Speaker 300:35:38And in Europe, you tend to see that. It's chunky business. It tends to move in big blocks at one time and then comes back into the market. So in terms of customer distribution though still growing number of customers still feel very positive. And one area where you can really see it is in our UCITS business, which is now over $6,000,000,000 and that is an important part of the European growth strategy is and again the product development strategy is to continue to launch USITs. Speaker 300:36:14We launched the QGrow USIT yesterday, I believe, in Europe. And we've seen inflows into USITs every year since 2014. So still feeling very good about what's going on in Europe, but the nature of the business is pretty chunky when money moves around and people change your allocations. Also though, it's great to talk about the U. S. Speaker 300:36:43For I know a lot last year and the year before, a lot of people were asking, okay, are you worried about USFR because we've seen some great flows there. And our point always was no, this is a core holding, number 1. So it's we're not even when interest rates change direction, we're not expecting large outflows, you might see some. But more importantly, as a core holding and for many a cash substitute, it puts us in the position to be in the conversation of where that money goes. And you saw that in the Q1 in spades where you saw some money moving out of USFR, but moving into things like deGrow, into India, into the currency hedge strategies, into models and really helping drive something really significant in the Q1 was the quality of the overall flows into basically higher fee products, but driving real revenue growth. Speaker 300:37:52So a lot of great things going on with the flows both in Europe and the U. S. Operator00:38:04Thank you. At this time, we've reached the end of our question and answer session. I'll turn the floor back to management for closing remarks. Speaker 400:38:13This is me, John Steinberg. I don't think we have any closing remarks. We want to thank you all for your time and attention and support and we'll speak to you next quarter. Thanks everybody. Have a great day. Operator00:38:25This will conclude today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day.Read morePowered by Conference Call Audio Live Call not available Earnings Conference CallWisdomTree Q1 202400:00 / 00:00Speed:1x1.25x1.5x2x Earnings DocumentsSlide DeckPress Release(8-K)Quarterly report(10-Q) WisdomTree Earnings HeadlinesWisdomTree, Inc. (WT): Among Billionaire Ken Fisher’s Finance Stock Picks with Huge Upside PotentialApril 26 at 10:31 AM | insidermonkey.comWisdomTree, Inc. 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There are 8 speakers on the call. Operator00:00:00Greetings. Welcome to the WisdomTree First Quarter 20 24 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in listen only mode. A question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. As a reminder, this conference today is being recorded. Operator00:00:22At this time, I'll turn the conference over to Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Jessica, you may begin. Speaker 100:00:30Good morning. Before we begin, I would like to reference our legal disclaimer available in today's presentation. This presentation may contain forward looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. A number of factors could cause actual results to differ materially from the results discussed in forward looking statements, including, but not limited to, the risks set forth in this presentation and in the Risk Factors section of WisdomTree's annual report on Form 10 ks for the year ended December 31, 2023. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward looking statements. Speaker 100:01:12Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree's CFO, Brian Edmondson. Speaker 200:01:20Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. Let me begin by sharing our results for the Q1 along with commentary on our expense guidance before turning the call over to Jarrett and Jono for additional updates on our business. We continue to demonstrate our ability to grow organically, having generated $2,000,000,000 of net inflows during the quarter. Sustainable flows have been a continuing theme with over 3 years of positive momentum and our results this quarter illustrate the breadth and depth of our product lineup and serve as a proof point in our ability to put points on the board away from USFR. Our $2,000,000,000 of inflows were broad and diverse and generally into products with higher fees, which has remixed our blended fee rate higher, setting the table for higher revenue capture for the Q2. Speaker 200:02:10Our inflows coupled with positive market movement resulted in us ending the quarter with record AUM of 107,200,000,000 This is driving revenue growth and expanding margins, demonstrating the scalability of our business model. Continuing organic growth coupled with disciplined expense and capital management alongside positive market conditions is the formula for further margin expansion and accelerated EPS growth. Next slide. Revenues were $96,800,000 an increase of 6.6% in the 4th quarter and up 18% from the prior year quarter, driven by higher average AUM. We have also observed adjusted operating margins expanding over 8 20 basis points versus the Q1 of last year or 2 80 basis points organically when adjusting for the impact of our gold royalty buyout, which we accomplished in the Q2 of last year. Speaker 200:03:11Our adjusted net income for the quarter was $20,300,000 or $0.12 a share. Next slide. Our adjusted operating expenses were up 5% for the quarter. The largest contributor was compensation as we experienced elevated seasonality in the amount of compensation we report in the Q1 due to payroll taxes, benefits and other items in connection with the payment of year end bonuses. Fund management expenses were also higher, driven by higher average AUM. Speaker 200:03:44Next slide. Now, a few comments on our forecasted expense guidance. Our forecasted compensation expense remains unchanged ranging from $108,000,000 to $118,000,000 This guidance considers variability in incentive compensation with drivers including the magnitude of our flows, revenue and operating income growth, margin expansion and our share price performance in relation to our peers. Where we sit today, the quarter into the year and given a strong start, we Q1. We are reiterating our full year discretionary spending guidance of $64,000,000 to $68,000,000 as we anticipate an uptick in marketing spend in connection with our national rollout within Tree Prime. Speaker 200:04:40We reported a gross margin of 79.4% in the Q1. We are maintaining our gross margin guidance of 79% to 80%, considering current AUM levels and fund launches anticipated during the course of the year. If AUM scales higher from continued organic growth or favorable margin conditions, we would anticipate further gross margin expansion. Our third party distribution expense was $2,300,000 in the Q1. We are maintaining our guidance of $10,000,000 to $11,000,000 for the year. Speaker 200:05:12We are also maintaining our annual adjusted interest expense guidance of $14,000,000 As a reminder, our adjusted interest expense guidance is exclusive of any interest costs we are required to impute under GAAP related to our interest refinancing of the shares we repurchased from the World Gold Council last November. Our interest income during the Q1 was 1,400,000 dollars We are increasing our interest income guidance for the year by $1,000,000 to $5,000,000 based upon the magnitude of our forecasted interest earning assets. Our adjusted tax rate was 24.9 percent in the Q1 and our guidance of 24% to 25% remains unchanged. And our weighted average diluted shares were 165,300,000 during the Q1 and our guidance of 166 to $168,000,000 for the year remains unchanged as well. That said, this guidance does not take into consideration any incremental shares associated with our convertible notes. Speaker 200:06:20Our current stock price of roughly $9 per share is up over 30% year to date and is approaching the $9.54 conversion price related to our convertible notes scheduled to mature in 2028. While the notes require principal to be paid in cash, our diluted shares would need to be increased for any incremental shares associated with the conversion option once our stock price exceeds $9.54 per share. An illustration is included within our earnings presentation to assist in quantifying the incremental shares associated with the conversion option going forward. That's all I have. I will now turn the call over to Jared. Speaker 300:07:04All right. Thanks, Brian, and good morning, everyone. We are excited to report another strong quarter with robust net inflows, record AUM and expanding operating margins, which all reflect our continued leadership in delivering innovative products and solutions for every market environment in every part of the cycle. We're also excited about our progress in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance, which are reshaping the future of our industry and creating new opportunities for growth and value creation. As Brian mentioned, Q1 started with nearly $2,000,000,000 of net inflows driven by the breadth and depth of our product lineup, especially in higher fee funds. Speaker 300:07:55Our India earnings fund and our currency hedge strategies attracted strong demand as did commodity funds such as silver and copper. In total, the fee rate on our gross inflows was 49 basis points, which helped drive our overall blended fees higher. Combined with a supportive market, we ended Q1 with record AUM of $107,200,000,000 up 18.2% year over year and 7.1% sequentially. We are proud of these results, which reflect our ability to deliver consistent and diversified growth across our product suite. Models also continue to be a steady growth driver. Speaker 300:08:44As a reminder, our approach is to grow the number advisors who have access to our models, while also further penetrating that market and growing the number of advisors actively using WisdomTree models. Based on our current pipeline, we expect our accessible market to grow to about 80,000 advisors by year end. That's up from 70,000 at the end of last year. Additionally, after adding 1,000 new advisor model users in 2023, we're on track to maintain that cadence of new advisor growth in 2024. The ongoing traction in models has driven growth in model AUM to about $3,500,000,000 at the end of March outpacing the growth of our firm wide AUM. Speaker 300:09:38Overall, we remain very bullish on the long runway for model assets growth in the quarters years ahead. We're also pleased to report that we delivered another strong quarter in margin expansion and earnings growth, demonstrating our scalable operating model and our ability to leverage our AUM growth. Our total operating margin increased by 820 basis points year over year to 30 percent of which 540 basis points was from smart deal making and opportunistically buying out the gold royalty payment last spring and 280 basis points was organically driven by growth and operational efficiency. Our adjusted earnings per share increased by 71% year over year to $0.12 reflecting top line growth and margin expansion dropping to the bottom line. We remain focused on driving expanded operating margins and earnings growth in 2024 and beyond. Speaker 300:10:46And we continue to believe that tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance represent a huge growth opportunity for WisdomTree as they open new markets, attract new customers and create new revenue streams. Back in 2020, we talked about our AUM growth opportunity driven by our diversified product suite models. We talked about our scalable operating model and how growth and operational efficiency would drive margin expansion. And we talked about the potential of tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. Each quarter since we have delivered on those opportunities and each quarter our growth momentum shines brighter, our margins have been expanding and we further solidify our position in tokenized assets. Speaker 300:11:39We used to be alone in talking about many of these themes, but now we have some company. We like to say that if you want to know what the industry is going to do tomorrow, look at what WisdomTree is doing today. In conclusion, we are confident that we have the right strategy, the right products, the right team, and the right culture to continue to create value for our clients and shareholders in the long term. We remain extremely bullish about 2024 and beyond and we continue to drive organic growth, expand our margins and lead the industry's evolution in tokenized assets and blockchain enabled finance. And with that, let me now turn it over to Jono. Speaker 400:12:26Thank you, Jarrett, and good morning, everyone. It's been a great start to the year. Record AUM, strong flows, higher fees, 8 20 basis points of margin expansion driving a 71% increase in earnings per share versus the Q1 of last year. We are executing on the key drivers that will propel the next $100,000,000,000 of AUM growth. Those drivers being ETFs, model portfolios, tokenization and WisdomTree Prime. Speaker 400:13:02Importantly, I want to remind everyone that all of the digital spend, including marketing is fully baked into our guidance for 2024. It's important to remember as marketing really begins in early May. Now the most important milestone in the quarter was the receipt of WisdomTree's trust charter from the New York State Department of Financial Services. DFS is the premier regulator for digital asset businesses in the U. S. Speaker 400:13:36And the operation of a trust company in this space has been a core component of our strategy. Simply put, we think that the Trust Company is a strong counterparty for our retail and institutional customers, and we think it will open up a number of business opportunities for us going forward. More specifically, the trust charter does 2 things for us. First, it allows us to onboard New York customers to WisdomTree Prime. 2nd, the trust company gives us the ability to offer products and perform services under DFS supervision with associated legal protections. Speaker 400:14:21Specifically, the trust company can perform fiduciary custody of digital assets, issue DFS approved stablecoins and manage stablecoin reserves. Now from an availability perspective and including the upcoming launch in New York, 75% of the U. S. Population across 41 states have access to WisdomTree Prime. On the product and feature front, we also hit another key milestone in the Q1 with the launch of our debit card to Prime users. Speaker 400:15:02The card is available both physically and digitally through Apple and Google Pay platforms and ties a WisdomTree Prime customer's asset balance to the payment ecosystem. Initially customers will be able to auto debit from the dollar token balances, but we will expand that functionality to other asset classes like our money market fund, gold and crypto in the coming quarters. With the trust charter and the launch of the debit card, as I already mentioned, in early May, we will be increasing our marketing efforts going forward. It's too early to share any takeaways, but this is the effort that will generate further downloads, funded accounts and activity. This is the beginning. Speaker 400:15:55We are seeing increasing interest in tokenization in the asset management space as many of you may have noted. Our combination of retail and institutional distribution, our regulatory licenses and our broad suite of tokenized assets and funds across asset classes positions us as the early leader in the space. We are looking to press this advantage in the coming months. This is only the beginning. As I continue to mention in recent calls, it's a very exciting time for WisdomTree. Speaker 400:16:36We have best in class organic growth, a meaningful margin expansion opportunity and leverage to the secular shift towards tokenization. Now let's turn the call over to Jeremy Campbell, WisdomTree's Head of Investor Relations. Speaker 200:16:56All right. Thank you, Jono, and good morning, everybody. Operator, let's open up the lines and go directly to some questions from our analysts. Operator00:17:29Thank you. And our first question is coming from the line of Adam Beattie with UBS. Please proceed with your questions. Speaker 500:17:36Thank you and good morning. I wanted to ask as you roll out Prime and some of the retail initiatives, there have been some prominent examples in recent years of other firms trying to go from an institutional setup to a more retail approach and then backing away from that strategy. So just wanted to get your thoughts on obviously, you've seen that studied it, how WisdomTree's offering is differentiated and how you'll succeed there? Thanks. Speaker 400:18:05Thank you. So, Adam, let me start and then maybe Will, you'll jump in. First, I'd say that WisdomTree is already and has from the very beginning been a direct to consumer brand within investments. So online brokerage accounts had seen our TV ads starting 17 years ago and have been interacting with us on a direct to retail basis from the very beginning. This is fully integrated into what we're doing with Prime, further delves into the consumer space for sure. Speaker 400:18:48It isn't a new business line though. It really is built on the infrastructure of the core business and we're starting with the sort of the low hanging fruit of investors, people most interested in money, people that we've known or gotten to know over the course of the past 20 years, and it will build incrementally over time. But by keeping our costs extremely low, as we do this, I think that we'll be able to find a cost effective marketing message. And that's the reason for the early testing in small incremental bites, which is what we said from the very beginning. And so what we're talking about it in May is just an increase in marketing spend and it will just continue to be increased in incremental ways through the for the rest of the year. Speaker 400:19:40But Will, what would you add to that? No, I Speaker 200:19:43think a lot of that was covered well, Jono. I'd just add, we're doing both. And I think they're mutually kind of beneficial and self reinforcing. I mean, one of the cool parts about our tokenization platform is it's the same platform being applied both to retail and institutional. We've spoken a lot about Prime, but we're going to be have more announcements coming up for that institutional portal that we've alluded to in the past. Speaker 200:20:07So it's both in there, both mutually self reinforcing and there's a good flywheel effect from both of them. Speaker 500:20:15Fair enough. Yes, I appreciate the context around direct to retail. And I want to follow-up on kind of the flywheel effect on the synergies. One of the things that we sometimes hear from investors is there tends to be a mentality and we'll just sort of address the point a little bit, but there tends to be a mentality of Prime and tokenization being separate from the core business of WisdomTree. So maybe if you could talk a little bit about the synergies and how some of the marketing spend might help your legacy business as well? Speaker 500:20:43Thanks. Speaker 400:20:46Will, should I take that? Speaker 200:20:48Go ahead. I'll start, Jono. I'm happy to start. I mean, I think that it's completely leveraging the core competencies of WisdomTree, right? A tokenized fund or a tokenized asset looks very similar in a lot of ways, right, to like an exchange traded product. Speaker 200:21:02It's a instead of being listed on the New York Stock Exchange or fixed in Switzerland, it could be listed on a kind of available on blockchain. So it's very similar core competencies to what we have. I think maybe a different distribution set right now, but it's definitely leveraging kind of what WisdomTree does today. Speaker 400:21:24I would just add Sorry, go ahead, John. We're just tapping into regulatory prowess, product development prowess, marketing prowess, even our engineering team, which have been building the solutions business of the core business has been tapped and expanded to help with the user interface and other elements of the technology builds of our digital assets. And so synergy all along, as well as overlapping vendor relationship management. So those are some of the elements that just come to mind in terms of how well the WisdomTree footprint was or is for trying to tackle the digital asset opportunity. Speaker 500:22:11Got it. Thank you guys very much. Appreciate it. Operator00:22:16Our next question is from the line of Keith Housum with Northcoast Research. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 200:22:21Good morning, guys. So I appreciate the commentary on WisdomTree, but if we come back to the ETF part of the business, perhaps, Jonah, you can give a little summary about the new product creation over the past, say, 4 or 5 quarters and then what the vision is for new product creation going forward? Speaker 400:22:38Well, I'm going to I'll very, very quickly touch on it. But Jeremy Schwartz, I'll turn it over to you. One of the things that we've done and we is expanded one of our internal brands quality as a family and as a foundational factor that we build a lot of our funds on. We started by not only did the original factor funds overweight to quality, but then we built a more specific quality family. We started with quality dividend growth, our largest equity fund. Speaker 400:23:13We've taken that internationally in recent years into the usage format. And we recently over the last year launched Quality Growth, which has had just an extraordinary performance in this past quarter, Q1 or maybe it's actually even more recently than that, it could have been in the quarter that we launched the UCED version of Quality Growth. But Jeremy, why don't you talk a little bit more about some of the product strategies that we've launched recently? Speaker 600:23:44Yes. We've been continually trying to diversify the product set for market environments where you have something in all market environments. And I think what you've seen with quality growth and our investment in thematics is that exact playing out. In our usage family, we have about $1,500,000,000 in thematics across over 10 different, you say more sector specific versions of not just the tech sector, but cloud and cyber and AI. And so now you have a real growth led type of fund family you can compete in. Speaker 600:24:20And in the U. S, we have almost $1,000,000,000 in that thematic range. So $2,500,000,000 in these sort of sector specific growth areas. The quality dividend growth family in the firm is up to almost $15,000,000,000 across the U. S. Speaker 600:24:36And Europe or maybe even more than $15,000,000,000 across that family and is taking a lot of those inflows. And we're going to continue to broaden out how do we go beyond USFR for fixed income. We've been investing in broader enhanced yield indexes for bringing a longer duration exposures and our efficient core family for equities, which combines stocks with bond futures is another way people can add duration to portfolios. And we're seeing that both in the U. S. Speaker 600:25:04And recently launched that in Europe. So we continue to try to be innovative in the funds that we launch and try to help diversify the overall business with that approach. Speaker 200:25:15Great. If I can follow-up there, and I'm sure AUM is the easiest way to measure success in some of these new funds. But how do you guys evaluate the success of these funds outside of just AUM growth? Speaker 500:25:30Maybe I Speaker 300:25:31can jump in. This is well, this is Jared jumping in for just a quick one. I think and Jeremy you can talk about measuring the new launches. But our overall strategy is about growth. And so growth is about having that diversified product suite and then enhancing it with innovative launches. Speaker 300:25:55And that's been a strategy that's been working for us very well over the last several years where we're looking to generally launch about 20 new funds a year and we're not changing that. That's sort of the pace we're looking at this year as well. And again, it's a strategy that's working well for us as evidenced by more than 3 years of consistent organic growth that really is leading the industry in terms of organic growth. So it's a very sound strategy and we're continuing with it. Speaker 600:26:30Jeremy, do you want to add any? The only thing I would say is in addition to the individual products, we continue to launch more models and you'll hear us we talk about how to get diversified flow. It's going beyond the single ticker sale in the model portfolio business is really the best way. And we continue to launch innovative models as well. Certainly, we've had a lot of success with the Seagull branded models for the big platforms and that's also part of our Prime offering is Seagull Token Fund, which is the overlap between sort of the prime business and the traditional business and how they there is synergies there. Speaker 600:27:04But we continue to launch very interesting new models that leverage our new funds. So I think you'll see you can see that as another source of growth for us. Speaker 200:27:14Great. Thank you. Operator00:27:18Our next question is from the line of Michael Cyprys with Morgan Stanley. Please proceed with your question. Great. Speaker 700:27:24Thank you. I wanted to dig in a bit on the models if we could. I was hoping you could maybe talk to some of the steps you're taking to drive greater adoption with new advisors using your models? I think you mentioned that 70,000 advisors right now is sort of the accessible market. I understand that's likely to expand this year. Speaker 700:27:43Just curious how penetrated you are within that 70,000 in terms of the number that are actually using your models and some of the talk about some of the steps that you're taking to improve that penetration? Speaker 400:27:54Garrett? Speaker 300:27:56Yes. Well, that's one of our major focuses. And we talked about it last quarter that it's there's a formula there. We want to expand the accessible market. So those are the number of financial advisors that can access our models. Speaker 300:28:18And at the end of the year, that was at 70,000. And then, of course, you want to penetrate that accessible market. And as of the end of last year, we had taken a number to 2,000 advisors. So our penetration was under 3%. And that's one of the exciting things is that, we still have a lot more of that addressable market to penetrate. Speaker 300:28:44Now so far this year, we've already seen growth on both. We're growing the accessible market. And today, the accessible market, we've been really successful on getting on to some of the best platforms with the firms that are most focused on this trend. So we're on Merrill's platform, Morgan Stanley's platform, LPL's platform. And that's a big part of the effort. Speaker 300:29:08How do we get on more platforms and grow our accessible market. But then the game is on, and now your the door is open and you have to walk through it and start convincing the individual advisors of how good our product is. And that's done with very good sales, a lot of great research, a lot of great models, as Jeremy mentioned earlier. We've got a not so secret weapon with Jeremy Siegel. And we go in and we try to win the hearts and minds. Speaker 300:29:42And last year, we took our the number of advisers using our models. We doubled the number from 1,000 to 2,000. We were adding roughly 250 new advisors per quarter. We're on that same pace this year. So another great thing about this business is you have real visibility into the pipeline. Speaker 300:30:08So already out there, as we said in the prepared remarks, we have great visibility that that accessible market, we expect it to be 80,000 and possibly more by the end of the year by just what we know is in the pipeline. And then we also can see that we're growing our penetration. And another thing is just sort of the seasoning. We know when someone starts on their 1st day with one of our models, it might be for one of their clients and they're testing it out. And we know as they get more comfortable, they start using the models for a bigger portion of that client's portfolio and then start adding more clients. Speaker 300:30:54And so we're at the very early stages because, a lot of the advisers that have started with us are early in the seasoning process. So I've given you a lot there, but we're growing the addressable market, we're growing our penetration, and we're also beginning to seize in those advisors that we've onboarded. Speaker 700:31:16Great. Thanks so much. And just a follow-up question on Wisdom Tree Prime. I was hoping you could maybe talk about your go to market strategy, talk about some of the steps that you're going to be taking to bring awareness to the offering and bring customers directly to WisdomTree? And what does sort of success look like to you as you look out over the next couple of years and understand to your earlier comment that you've been a D2C business for a bit, but maybe you could just remind us on what portion of the ETFs today are held in self directed brokerage accounts? Speaker 700:31:45Thanks. Speaker 400:31:47Will, do you want to start? Speaker 200:31:50Yes. I'm happy to start and then if you have anything else you can just add, John. I think it was just that, it's what you've been talking about in the past, lean marketing focusing on digital and organic first. So that could be targeting app store, search ads, things like that for people who are looking at some of the themes that we've got. A very clear example of that would be digital gold. Speaker 200:32:11Is a large universe of people out there who are find gold very appealing. A digital gold product with instant settlement is appealing to them. We want to target that user and continue to monetize that user. So that's the type of people that we're going to be targeting in addition to the organic and press strategy that we've got going on as well. And a big piece of that has been adding features and also adding states and being available to additional people in the U. Speaker 200:32:34S. So the New York TrustCo announcement was a big part of that. Being open to New York customers in the coming weeks will be a big part of that. So that's the type of marketing strategy that we're going to be leaning into. Speaker 400:32:48And I would say from a penetration on the core business to retail just AUM, it's something I don't have an exact, but sort of a $9,000,000,000 to $10,000,000,000 Speaker 300:33:01number. Yes, Speaker 400:33:02dollars 9,000,000,000 number out of the total with the U. S. Being more retail oriented than Europe. Speaker 700:33:13And that $9,000,000,000 in brokerage self directed? Speaker 400:33:17Yes. Speaker 700:33:18Great. Thank you. Operator00:33:23Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig Hallum. Please proceed with your question. Speaker 200:33:33Good morning. This is Adam on for George. Thanks for taking my questions. With respect to WisdomTree Prime and the receivable of the MYDFS approval, I was curious, has this helped push forward any of the conversation with respect to 3rd party white labeling? Speaker 400:33:49Will, do you want to start? Speaker 200:33:51Yes. Yes, it would. Now I think the like Jono said earlier in the call, the trust charter opens up New York customers to us, but it's also a really strong regulated counterparty for people to be dealing business with. So on lots of B2B and B2B2C opportunities, the trust charter is a great kind of way to do that. And you actually see other businesses in the market today who have that trust charter, who have lots of white labeling style strategies around that. Speaker 200:34:21That very much is a good step along that kind of just white labeling, but B2B and B2B2C more broadly. Great. And then I know it's early days with respect to the debit card offering, but I was curious if there's any insights you could share about the initial response from existing users? Initial response has been great. Yes, sorry, John, just jump in there. Speaker 200:34:45It's actually been very helpful in terms of our marketing strategy. We've seen an uptick with debit card messaging. We're seeing people open the cards, beginning to spend on it. So the debit card has been a it's always been a key component of it and that's being borne out in the marketing so far. Great. Speaker 200:35:02And then just with respect to flow so far through Q2, obviously there's a little bit of a headwind in the European business. Just curious if you had any additional color on what's driving that? Speaker 400:35:14Jeremy or Jared, do Speaker 600:35:16you want to start? 1 of you? Speaker 300:35:20Sure. I can give a start and Jared you jump in. What we've seen is some money in motion. You've seen some repositioning, especially in commodities. So you've seen some big moves. Speaker 300:35:38And in Europe, you tend to see that. It's chunky business. It tends to move in big blocks at one time and then comes back into the market. So in terms of customer distribution though still growing number of customers still feel very positive. And one area where you can really see it is in our UCITS business, which is now over $6,000,000,000 and that is an important part of the European growth strategy is and again the product development strategy is to continue to launch USITs. Speaker 300:36:14We launched the QGrow USIT yesterday, I believe, in Europe. And we've seen inflows into USITs every year since 2014. So still feeling very good about what's going on in Europe, but the nature of the business is pretty chunky when money moves around and people change your allocations. Also though, it's great to talk about the U. S. Speaker 300:36:43For I know a lot last year and the year before, a lot of people were asking, okay, are you worried about USFR because we've seen some great flows there. And our point always was no, this is a core holding, number 1. So it's we're not even when interest rates change direction, we're not expecting large outflows, you might see some. But more importantly, as a core holding and for many a cash substitute, it puts us in the position to be in the conversation of where that money goes. And you saw that in the Q1 in spades where you saw some money moving out of USFR, but moving into things like deGrow, into India, into the currency hedge strategies, into models and really helping drive something really significant in the Q1 was the quality of the overall flows into basically higher fee products, but driving real revenue growth. Speaker 300:37:52So a lot of great things going on with the flows both in Europe and the U. S. Operator00:38:04Thank you. At this time, we've reached the end of our question and answer session. I'll turn the floor back to management for closing remarks. Speaker 400:38:13This is me, John Steinberg. I don't think we have any closing remarks. We want to thank you all for your time and attention and support and we'll speak to you next quarter. Thanks everybody. Have a great day. Operator00:38:25This will conclude today's conference. You may disconnect your lines at this time and have a wonderful day.Read morePowered by