WisdomTree (WT) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

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DATE

Fri, Oct 30, 2026

CALL PARTICIPANTS

• Head of Corporate Communications - Jessica Zaloom
• Chief Financial Officer - Bryan Edmiston
• President and Chief Operating Officer - Jarrett Lilien
• Head of WisdomTree Onchain - Will Peck
• Chief Executive Officer - Jonathan Steinberg

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TAKEAWAYS

• Record Assets Under Management -- $171.0 billion at quarter end, representing a 5% increase from June 30, 2026, driven by market appreciation and strong organic flows.
• Net Inflows -- $4.6 billion for the quarter, including contributions of $2.4 billion from the United States, $1.7 billion from Europe, and $500 million from onchain products.
• Annualized Organic Growth -- 13% year to date, reflecting $13.6 billion in total net inflows across international equities, fixed income, commodities, and U.S. equities.
• Operating Revenues -- $179.4 million for the quarter, growing 43% year over year primarily due to higher average assets under management and contributions from recent acquisitions.
• Adjusted Operating Margin -- 43.1% for the third quarter, representing 750 basis points of expansion year over year on an adjusted basis.
• Adjusted Net Income -- $49.5 million, or $0.32 per share, driven by revenue growth and the operating leverage inherent in the business model.
• Discretionary Spending Guidance -- $83 million to $87 million for the full year, a reduction of $2 million to the high end of the previous range.
• Third-party Distribution Guidance -- $21 million to $23 million for the full year, with $16.5 million in spending recognized year to date.
• Interest Income Guidance -- $9 million for the full year, representing a $1 million increase from previous expectations due to current interest-earning asset levels.
• Share Repurchases -- $10.6 million for the quarter, utilized to buy back approximately 500,000 shares of common stock at an average price of $21.29 per share.
• Convertible Debt Retirement -- $18.1 million in principal amount of 2029 notes retired using cash, which eliminated the remaining outstanding principal for that series.
• Model Portfolio Assets -- Approaching $10 billion in assets under advisement, supported by custom models and expanding advisor relationships in the United States.
• Atlantic House Product Pipeline -- Planned launch of 15 to 20 new products over the next 18 to 24 months, leveraging the team's expertise in liquid alternatives.
• Ceres Fund II Demand -- $100 million pipeline of potential demand from over 100 investors following the fund's launch in mid-June 2026.
• AI-Driven Efficiency -- 1,500 hours saved per month through AI integration into firm workflows, representing the productivity equivalent of at least 10 full-time employees.
• AI Strategy Outperformance -- 900 basis points of market outperformance year to date achieved by an AI-driven long-short investment strategy.
• Revenue Yield -- 0.42% for the quarter, a 1 basis point decrease from the prior quarter due to lower performance fees and transaction fees in Europe.
• Average Advisory Fee -- 0.36% for the quarter, which remained unchanged from the second quarter of 2026.
• Q4 Diluted Share Guidance -- 154 million to 160 million shares, based on an assumed average stock price range of $21 to $24 per share.
• Adjusted Effective Tax Rate -- 24.7% for the third quarter, compared to 24.1% in the second quarter of 2026.
• Cash and Cash Equivalents -- $299.7 million in total cash and restricted cash as of Sept. 30, 2026.

SUMMARY

WisdomTree, Inc. (NYSE:WT) reported record assets under management and significant adjusted operating margin expansion as it transitions into a modern global asset manager. Management reported that the firm is intentionally positioned at the intersection of public markets, private markets, and tokenization. The company reported $4.6 billion in quarterly net inflows, maintaining a double-digit annualized organic growth rate for the year. This growth is supported by an efficient operating model that utilizes approximately 440 employees to manage over $170 billion in assets. Strategic focus remains on scaling the onchain platform and integrating private market allocations into traditional investment wrappers to provide enhanced diversification for investors.

• Jonathan Steinberg indicated that the firm's strategic focus is the integration of public markets, private markets, and tokenization into a unified investment ecosystem.
• Will Peck stated, "We have introduced the ability to trade the fund around the clock seven days a week, along with continuous interest accrual," regarding the functionality of the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund.
• The company plans to introduce private market allocations into the exchange-traded fund wrapper in 2027, which Jonathan Steinberg described as another expression of modern alpha.
• Jarrett Lilien noted that an average of nine of the firm's top 15 flow-generating funds each quarter were not in the top 15 the quarter before, demonstrating the breadth of the product suite.
• Management reported that the firm has built its own tokenization infrastructure, including an onchain transfer agent, broker-dealer, and regulated trust company.
• Jonathan Steinberg stated, "The delta here between what is in our stock today and what should be realized, I think, is quite immense," regarding the valuation of the firm's onchain ecosystem relative to public peers.

INDUSTRY GLOSSARY

• AUM: Assets under management; the total market value of the investments managed by a financial institution.
• AUA: Assets under advisement; assets for which a firm provides investment advice or model portfolios but does not have full discretionary management.
• ETF: Exchange-traded fund; a type of investment fund and exchange-traded product that is traded on stock exchanges.
• ETP: Exchange-traded product; a type of security that is priced derivatively and trades intra-day on a national securities exchange.
• Modern Alpha: A WisdomTree investment approach that uses rules-based or AI-driven factors to attempt to outperform traditional benchmarks.
• Onchain: Financial transactions or products that are recorded and traded directly on a blockchain.
• SOFR: Secured Overnight Financing Rate; a benchmark interest rate used for dollar-denominated derivatives and loans.
• Tokenization: The process of converting ownership rights of an asset into a digital token on a blockchain.
• WTGXX: The ticker symbol for the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund.

Full Conference Call Transcript

Operator: Greetings, and welcome to the WisdomTree Q3 2026 Earnings Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. Should anyone require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce your host, Jessica Zaloom, Head of Corporate Communications. Thank you. You may begin.

Jessica Zaloom: Good 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, in the Risk Factor section of WisdomTree's annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025, and in subsequent reports filed with or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission. WisdomTree assumes no duty and does not undertake to update any forward-looking statements.

Now, it is my pleasure to turn the call over to WisdomTree CFO, Bryan Edmiston.

Bryan Edmiston: Thank you, Jessica, and good morning, everyone. I will begin with a review of our third quarter results, followed by updates to our forward-looking guidance, before turning the call over to Jarrett, Will, and Jono for additional business updates. Our assets under management reached a record $171 billion at quarter end, marking our seventh consecutive quarter of record AUM. Assets increased 5% from June 30, driven by strong net inflows and favorable market conditions. All-time highs were achieved across our U.S., European, and onchain businesses, reflecting continued growth across our global platform.

During the quarter, we generated $4.6 billion of net inflows, with positive contributions across the firm, including $2.4 billion in the U.S., $1.7 billion in Europe, and $500 million from onchain. Year-to-date net inflows totaled $13.6 billion, representing an annualized organic growth rate of approximately 13%. Flows remain broad-based across strategies and geographies, with meaningful contributions from international equities, fixed income, commodities, and U.S. equities. The operating leverage inherent in our business model continues to translate into margin expansion, both sequentially and year-over-year, as record AUM and continued strong organic growth demonstrate the increasing earnings power of our business.

We also remained active on capital management, retiring the remaining $18 million principal amount of our 2029 convertible notes using cash, while repurchasing approximately $11 million of common stock during the quarter, representing roughly 500,000 shares. These actions further simplify our capital structure while also returning capital to shareholders. Overall, our strong organic growth and record AUM continue to drive greater scale and higher earnings, strengthening our ability to create long-term value for shareholders. Next slide. Revenues were $179.4 million during the quarter, an increase of 1% from the second quarter, driven by higher AUM, partly offset by lower transaction fees from our European ETPs and lower performance fees.

Revenues increased 43% from the prior year quarter and 49% year to date, driven by higher AUM, elevated trading activity relative to the prior periods, and contributions from the Ceres and Atlantic House acquisitions. Adjusted operating margins were 43.1% for the quarter and 41.8% year to date, representing 750 basis points of expansion from the comparable prior year period. This improvement underscores the operating leverage in our business model generated by strong revenue growth, including contributions from our recent acquisitions. Adjusted net income for the quarter was $49.5 million, or $0.32 per share. Next slide. Now, a few comments on our forward-looking guidance. Discretionary spending totaled $62.2 million year to date.

We are updating our full-year guidance to range from $83 million to $87 million, reflecting a modest $2 million reduction to the high end of our previous range. We are also narrowing our third-party distribution guidance to $21 million-$23 million, having recognized $16.5 million year to date. Our interest income guidance is increased by $1 million to $9 million, reflecting our current expectations for interest-earning assets. Finally, we expect fourth quarter diluted shares to range from 154 million to 160 million shares, including incremental shares associated with our convertible notes, assuming an average stock price of $21-$24 per share. Actual diluted shares may fall outside this range, depending on our average share price during the quarter.

As a reminder, our earnings presentation includes an illustration to help quantify the potential dilution associated with our convertible notes going forward. All other elements of our forward-looking guidance remain unchanged from last quarter. This concludes my remarks. I will now turn the call over to Jarrett.

Jarrett Lilien: All right. Thanks, Bryan, and good morning, everyone. As Bryan highlighted, this was another strong quarter for WisdomTree, with $4.6 billion of net inflows and continued broad-based strength across our global product suite. What continues to stand out is not just the magnitude of those flows, but the breadth and depth of where they are coming from and how consistently we are generating growth, even as the funds driving it change with the market environment. Over the last several years, an average of nine of our top 15 flow-generating funds each quarter were not in the top 15 the quarter before.

That is the broad-based growth Bryan describes in action, where a wide range of products are contributing at different times, giving us multiple ways to win business as investors' needs change. Our portfolio solutions business also continues to grow well, with model AUA now approaching $10 billion. We're adding new advisors while deepening relationships with existing users, driving stickier assets and more sustainable organic flows. We're also beginning to see the benefits of our Atlantic House acquisition. We've launched our first two products in Europe, leveraging the team's capabilities, with plans to launch 15-20 products over the next 18-24 months.

We see real opportunity to drive strong organic growth in liquid alternatives across both Europe and the U.S., combining differentiated investment expertise with our global distribution platform. At Ceres, we launched Fund II in mid-June and already have a strong pipeline with more than $100 million of potential demand from over 100 investors in the mid to late stages. We remain very bullish on the combination of Ceres' differentiated farmland strategy and WisdomTree's distribution capabilities to drive attractive returns and strong organic growth. Jono will talk more about how Atlantic House and Ceres fit into our broader evolution across public markets, private markets, and digital assets.

Turning to efficiency, we're continuing to focus on scaling the business while finding ways to make our existing team even more productive. AI is an important part of that effort. We've been embedding AI into workflows across the firm for several years now, not as a headcount reduction initiative, but as a way to free up our employees to focus on higher-impact activities. We're seeing tangible results. In 2026, we've tracked more than 1,500 hours saved per month through AI, the equivalent of at least 10 full-time employees. That's only from the initiatives we've been able to fully measure, so the actual impact is likely meaningfully higher.

Jono will also touch on how we're using AI in the investment process itself. That focus on growth and efficiency is what's driving the margin expansion Bryan walked through, with 750 basis points of improvement year-to-date. Importantly, we're achieving that while continuing to invest in growth, maintaining expense discipline, and leveraging incremental margins north of 50%. You've all heard me say this before, but we have an effective playbook that's been working for several years now, which is drive high-quality organic growth, find ways to become more efficient as we scale, and translate that into even greater earnings power. We're continuing to execute on all three fronts.

That playbook is also extending into new areas of growth, and tokenization is a prime example. Onchain contributed $500 million of net inflows this quarter. With so much going on in this space, we've invited Will Peck, our Head of WisdomTree Onchain, to join the call. He'll share more about the progress we're making, from growing demand for our tokenized product to the partnerships expanding our distribution. With that, Will, over to you.

Will Peck: Thanks, Jarrett, and good morning, everyone. I am excited to spend a few minutes talking about where we stand with our onchain business and where we are focused going forward. Let me start with something we announced recently, bringing our digital asset initiatives together under one name, WisdomTree Onchain. Historically, with WisdomTree Prime, WisdomTree Connect, and the different pieces of our infrastructure, it has not always been easy to understand how everything fits together. These have always been part of building one integrated platform, and WisdomTree Onchain better reflects what that business has become.

That includes our retail app, WisdomTree Prime, our institutional and third-party distribution API and portal through WisdomTree Connect, and Onchain Markets, which we are developing to expand secondary market trading. Importantly, we have built the underlying infrastructure ourselves. We have invested in our tokenization platform, onchain transfer agent, broker-dealer, and regulated trust company. We are not just an asset manager putting funds on a blockchain. We have built an integrated financial services platform that we can use for our own products and potentially offer to others as a service. We are already seeing the benefits of that investment. A great example is WTGXX, our tokenized money market fund.

While we have had some recent seasonal inflows and outflows, the trend line remains consistent. We are seeing continued growth across use cases. We have introduced the ability to trade the fund around the clock seven days a week, along with continuous interest accrual. This functionality is leading to greater demand. Stablecoin reserves, cash management, and increasingly, collateral mobility remain the major use cases we see for WTGXX and tokenized treasury funds. I like to think about stablecoins as money in motion and tokenized money market funds as money at rest.

Stablecoins are incredibly useful for moving value around the blockchain ecosystem, but when that money is not being used, investors should be able to earn yield without having to move back into the traditional financial system or take risks in DeFi. Obviously, the benefits of this only increase when AI agents start handling a greater number of financial transactions and can always ensure idle cash is generating return for investors and businesses. That is exactly the kind of problem we are solving with WTGXX. We are also looking to extend these capabilities beyond money market funds.

We have a novel tokenized ETF proposal in front of the SEC today, which could be another important step in bringing the benefits of onchain trading to a broader range of investment products. We have built the infrastructure, we have products demonstrating real demand, and now a major focus is distribution. How do we get these products and services in front of more customers? Increasingly, the answer is through partnerships. We have recently announced relationships with firms globally, including BitGo, MoonPay, Stable Sea, HashKey, Marketnode, and Synthesys. They serve different customers and markets, but our objective is the same, making WisdomTree's products and infrastructure available where people are already doing business.

We have also joined a consortium of 21 global financial institutions developing a regulated U.S. dollar stablecoin. These are some of the largest banks in the world, with millions of existing customers, and I think it is another indication of how quickly traditional finance is moving into this space. The pipeline of conversations we are having, both around distributing our products and potentially providing tokenization services to other firms, is extremely robust. I cannot predict when individual partnerships will come together, but I am very encouraged by what we are seeing. On the legislative and regulatory front, the environment remains constructive.

The GENIUS Act's passage last year was a milestone event, and while the CLARITY Act stalled in the Senate, adoption of stablecoins and tokenized securities has continued. Regulatory progress has also continued, including the SEC's proposed changes to Reg NMS, innovation exemption for trading of tokenized securities, and the OCC's final rule implementing the GENIUS Act. Stepping back, our investments in this platform have us extremely well-positioned for the secular bull market. We have the infrastructure, differentiated products, an expanding distribution network, and an increasingly supportive regulatory environment. There's still a lot of work ahead, but I think we're very well-positioned as more financial services moves onchain. Thanks, everyone. I'll turn it back to Jono.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you, Will, and good morning, everyone. As you've heard from Bryan, Jarrett, and Will, WisdomTree continues to execute exceptionally well. It is becoming more apparent to more investors that WisdomTree is not simply an ETF company. We're becoming a truly modern global asset manager, a next-generation global asset manager. After 20-plus years of continued strategic reinvestment, we are intentionally positioned at the intersection of three powerful transformations in financial services: the democratization of investing globally, the convergence of public and private markets, and the tokenization of financial markets onchain. The most exciting opportunity, the real transformation comes from not merely participating in these three markets independently.

It's in integrating them into a cohesive platform and investment ecosystem, which is exactly what WisdomTree is doing. WisdomTree has always taken a differentiated approach to our operating model. We only insource where it's strategic, and we have a genuine edge, where our expertise can make a real difference. We retain the intellectual property, specialized investment capabilities, and global distribution network that distinguishes us, and we've brought our technology development in-house while outsourcing more commoditized activities. The result is an extraordinarily efficient and scalable business. Today, we manage approximately $170 billion in assets with just 440 employees. As we continue to grow, that operating leverage translates into expanding margins and faster earnings per share growth.

But the operating model is only part of our story, starting with public markets, which remain the foundation of our business. 20 years ago, we launched our first 20 ETFs, and we introduced the concept of modern alpha, challenging traditional indexing. As Jarrett highlighted, the breadth of our product lineup and years of consistent organic growth demonstrate just how successful this approach has been. Today, we're making modern alpha further than we could have imagined back then. We're using AI to uncover new sources of alpha. In fact, one of our AI-driven long-short strategies, which uses leverage, is a true hedge fund in the ETF wrapper.

It has outperformed the market by more than 900 basis points so far this year. With Atlantic House, we've significantly expanded our capabilities in sophisticated liquid alternatives and defined outcome solutions. These are differentiated, higher revenue-yielding investment capabilities that we can now bring to a much broader global audience. Turning to privates, our acquisition of Ceres gave WisdomTree a leading position in U.S. farmland, a differentiated asset class with attractive economics. But we're looking beyond farmland. Companies are staying private longer, and increasingly, significant value creation is happening before they ever reach the public markets. We believe ETF investors should have access to some of that opportunity. To me, that's another expression of modern alpha.

In 2027, we expect to bring private market allocations into the ETF wrapper, providing investors with greater diversification and potentially new sources of outperformance. I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but we're working on some very innovative approaches, and you'll hear more about that in coming quarters. Finally, turning to tokenization and onchain finance. As Will just outlined, we've spent years building a fully vertically integrated tokenization platform. We have the regulated infrastructure, the technology, and the investment products to compete at the cutting edge of this market. While we're still in the early stages, I believe very few firms have assembled the capabilities that we have.

Importantly, this platform is about more than just our own funds. We've built the infrastructure and services that other financial institutions can leverage as they embrace tokenization. I believe tokenization will fundamentally change how financial assets are issued, distributed, and traded. We've invested early, we've built the foundation, and we are exceptionally well-positioned to capitalize as adoption accelerates. Stepping back, public markets, private markets, to tokenization. Three distinct but increasingly interconnected capabilities that I believe will define the future of asset management. Combine that breadth of capabilities with our extraordinarily efficient business model, and that's what we're building at WisdomTree, a truly modern global asset manager. Thank you. Let's open the call to questions.

Operator: Thank you. We will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment, please, while we pull for questions. The first question is from Wilma Burdis from Raymond James. Please go ahead.

Wilma Burdis: Hey, good morning. You just mentioned the ability to bring privately held companies to an ETF format. I realize this is still early stages, but we'd love to hear more if there's anything you can share. Seems like that would be a huge market. Thanks.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thanks, Wilma. First, the target, we are not sharing right now the specific fund mechanics or the launch dates beyond that we expect this to be a 2027 event. What we are really trying to do is build strategies that are predominantly liquid, that do incorporate limited allocations to private assets, really always to the benefit of the investor, so delivering after-fee returns that are enhanced by the addition of additional assets. We believe, obviously, we made the acquisition of farmland. That would be an obvious area of allocation within the appropriate selected funds, but we also think we could expand that to incorporate shares of private companies as well.

I do not think I can say more about that at this time, but we are excited about the opportunity.

Wilma Burdis: So much interesting-

Jonathan Steinberg: Sorry, please continue, Wilma.

Wilma Burdis: Oh, no. I was just saying, sounds like an interesting one. I did not know if there was anything else you guys wanted to add there. Expense growth seemed to moderate this quarter as well. Maybe you could talk a little bit about that. Thanks.

Bryan Edmiston: Yeah, Wilma.

Jonathan Steinberg: Bryan?

Bryan Edmiston: Thanks for the question. Yep, I got this one. Expenses were down and moderated a bit. Some of that seasonality over the summer months, some of that is just continuing to control our spend, and some of that is just realizing further leverage in our comp ratio as well.

Wilma Burdis: Okay, thank you. Could you talk a little bit about the profitability of the tokenization business and how that is going to progress in the near future? Thanks.

Jonathan Steinberg: Will, do you want to start?

Will Peck: Yeah, happy to. Thanks for the question. This business is very much an investment in investment mode today. We do not disclose separate financials associated with it. Bryan can maybe provide some more color there.

You can see in the AUM growth, you can see in the pipeline that we have, we remain extremely optimistic and bullish in trying to build this in a very disciplined way to take advantage of the infrastructure that we have here at WisdomTree, the benefits that we have with some of these global vendor relationships that we have, that allow us to do this in a very cost-effective way than if you were just trying to build the onchain leader in registered funds from scratch.

We feel very good about how we have positioned it from an investment side and an expense side, and we will continue to keep you posted as we have more details there that we can share.

Jonathan Steinberg: Hey, Will, do you mind just also maybe talking a little bit about the use cases and maybe the addressable markets? I mean, it does tie into future profitability.

Will Peck: Yeah, absolutely. We talked about, I spoke a bit about this in the prepared remarks. We see a really large addressable market here for onchain registered funds, specifically with the money market fund, let's say. The use cases that we are seeing today being cash management, stablecoin reserves, collateral mobility. These are huge addressable markets in and of themselves, right? One of the ways that I like to think about it, you are really talking about M2 at a certain level, right? That is $23 trillion today. I do not mean to overstate that, but M2 is a big number. People really want the risk-free rate today, right? Especially when I think SOFR is at like 3.94% today.

There is really a real cost of capital in terms of not getting or not trying to get to the risk-free rate with your cash. We see that being a trend across financial services. It is only going to take hold even more, particularly as people incorporate agents, agentic finance into their workflows. That is going to really put a lot of pressure on friction-based businesses with this idea that you are comfortable not getting the risk-free rate on your cash. We do think it is going to be a huge addressable market. There is currently about $8 trillion in money market funds, $16 trillion in ETFs. I like to think about, like, how big could these numbers get?

Especially if we see accelerated GDP growth from here, like, how big could those numbers get? The world really wants access to U.S. dollar, U.S. capital markets. It wants that access within the U.S. regulatory perimeter, and that is something that we think onchain formatting of these types of structures, these types of exposures can really help solve. We are talking about a very, very big addressable market here over time.

Jonathan Steinberg: The only other thing-

Wilma Burdis: Okay.

Jonathan Steinberg: again, about the cost, Wilma, what I would just say is, Bryan has given guidance that we are spending sort of the mid-20s from an operating loss standpoint. But I do believe that the value, for those of the analysts or the investors that value us on a multiple of the PE, you are really putting a negative value on the investments that we have made in this onchain ecosystem. There are peers, a public peer with more than a $1 billion of value. The delta here between what is in our stock today and what should be realized, I think, is quite immense.

Obviously, we as management will be very diligent in trying to bring that value more closely to investors' attention, to make it more obvious to more investors. We are excited about it.

Wilma Burdis: Okay, thank you.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you.

Operator: The next question is from George Sutton from Craig-Hallum. Please go ahead.

George Sutton: Thank you. Jono, just a little bit more to that point of the misvaluation of your digital asset build-out. You had started to discuss in the prepared comments that you insource where you have an edge. I am just curious if you could give us a sense of some of those edges that you have built from an insource perspective.

Jonathan Steinberg: I could, but maybe it's better if Will starts, the efficiency that comes from this fully integrated platform, Will?

Will Peck: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think WisdomTree historically has been very smart about where it insources and where it outsources. I think that allows this business to have $170 billion, thereabouts, in AUM, with just north of 400 employees, right? I think that's something that we're proud of in terms of how efficient we can be. We've got a very high bar in terms of where we insource versus where we outsource and try to focus on real value-added areas of insourcing. In the onchain business, right, there's really a lot of blank space when we started on this, right?

It might not be so common for an asset manager in 2026 to own its own transfer agent, but that was a real area of innovation that we saw, where doing things better really added value for your customers. Another example could be the willingness to have a money services business and regulated trust company. That's something that WisdomTree saw as being important in this, the ability to deal in stablecoins. Having that in-house has really allowed us to win certain business that we think we otherwise would not have been able to win. The last piece that I'd highlight is that we've, over the past few years, built out our broker-dealer.

FINRA member broker-dealer, WisdomTree Securities, which supports various things in WisdomTree's business, one of which is the tokenization onchain efforts. That broker-dealer, we've previewed Onchain Markets a bit, the importance of having secondary market liquidity, our tokenized ETF model. That broker-dealer is going to prove to be very important, we think, going forward. These are just examples where, I think, by being willing to think about how this technology actually adds value and what WisdomTree can do in order to achieve that, we've been willing to make those investments and have these entities, these regulated entities and related infrastructure that allows us to really maximize the opportunity. We feel really good about those decisions to date, where we are today.

Jonathan Steinberg: George, let me just add, the question really was about insourcing the technology development. It does allow us to be an incredibly responsive partner. All the partnerships that Will has recently, that we mentioned or that we've announced or that are coming in the future, our ability to move quickly, be responsive, as opposed to somebody who's outsourcing a lot of this, I think shows up in these partnerships and in just a smoother user experience from beginning to end for the end customer. Thanks, George.

George Sutton: Perfect. Post the CLARITY Act not moving forward, I actually saw you as an enormous beneficiary of that, in that stablecoins cannot offer interest. When I look at your tokenized money market fund, it seems like a very unusually attractive option for folks. I am just curious if you can address the impact since the CLARITY Act. You've also mentioned the agentic moves so that, obviously, agents will try to find the best options independently. Then, we were very pleased to see you offered now as part of the BitGo platform. Can you give us a sense of how big can this tokenized money market fund alone be?

Will Peck: I mean, I think you, happy to. I think you spelled out a lot of the reasons there. I mean, we saw no impact really, no negative impact on the CLARITY Act failing to pass. It was really, for us, we saw like a pre-GENIUS Act world and a post-GENIUS Act world. What the GENIUS Act kind of gave the, for lack of a better term, blessing to U.S.-regulated institutions to start doing more business with stablecoins and wallets.

You've seen, whether it's the consortium that we're a part of, some of the work that Open Standards is doing, or what other, Circle, others, really a real build-out in terms of stablecoins, and more importantly for us, wallet infrastructure, things that like MoonPay and BitGo provide, right? As this wallet infrastructure permeates the industry more broadly, that just opens up the really addressable market for our products and use cases. Like I said earlier, people want the risk-free rate, especially when it's nearing 4%, right? When you're onchain and payment stablecoins, it is not so easy to get that.

You're reliant on some of these tenuous rewards programs or taking risk in DeFi, where you don't actually, you think you're getting the risk-free rate, but you don't know which kind of risk you're taking, right? So, that does open up a huge opportunity in money market funds. We think we've got, certainly by doing this as a registered fund in the '40 Act, a Rule 2a-7 government money market fund, we've done a lot of the hard work to make this as available to the most amount of people as possible, with minimums as low as a dollar.

Then we added the secondary market functionality with the exemptive relief we got, and we think it's a very compelling value prop. You're starting to see that with some of these integrations that we're doing in partnerships, where putting this fund into the workflows of individuals and businesses is just going to make it easier for them to access. They don't need to separately come to WisdomTree, although we can continue to make that process extremely smooth for people. It could be a huge fund. We're talking about a very, very large addressable market. Money market funds in general, especially as agentic finance continues to take hold, could get to be very, very big in the coming years.

We're very bullish on it.

George Sutton: Final, if I could, Will, how are you working with a know-your-agent technology? Would that be an insourced or outsourced solution for you, and has that been deployed?

Will Peck: That's a good question. No, we don't have any specific kind of updates there. I think there have been a couple of interesting white papers that have been put out about how you do KYC, KYB, CIP when people are doing more business with agents. The one thing that I'd like to think about and point to today is that, we try to create a very good surface area by which people can code to our products. They can access them programmatically in the way that works best for them. I've seen some very cool examples of firms in our sandbox building agentic workflows using the sandbox. I think that's just representative of how this could come.

We can kind of, in the future, maybe have more updates on specific know-your-agent style workflows, and I think more to come there. But in terms of creating a surface area by which people can access these products, access or approximate the risk-free rate, we think we're building a very good platform for that.

George Sutton: Awesome. Thanks, guys.

Operator: The next question is from Michael Cyprys from Morgan Stanley. Please go ahead.

Michael Cyprys: Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking the question. So, wanted to ask about digital. You guys have made substantial progress building out the onchain platform and are expanding distribution. So, as you look out over the next couple years, how are you thinking about the opportunity to translate all of that growth there into meaningful revenue and earnings? Where do you see the greatest monetization opportunity, and what might be the one or two, or even three things that might be the notable catalysts around that?

Jonathan Steinberg: Will, start please.

Will Peck: Yeah, happy to continue here. I mean, the first is, as an asset manager, expense ratio, right? The funds have an expense ratio. If we can, you look at the scale of some other asset, it can get very, very big. The expense ratio being kind of one main example of that, where even for funds that you might consider low fee, that they can get to be very, very big numbers over time. The second example that I give is, or the second thing I'd point to, rather, is the broker-dealer, right? We do think that there's going to be a real opportunity for the broker-dealer to have non-expense ratio revenue for the business.

We'll have more to kind of talk about that in 2027 and beyond, but if I really had to point to two, it would be one, as the expense ratio as an asset manager, and the second would be services that the broker-dealer could provide.

Jonathan Steinberg: I'll just add, Mike, with our partnership involvement in the bank stablecoin efforts, net interest income from greater stablecoin usage as our products are moving around the world more fulsomely. I think there are three easy ones.

Michael Cyprys: And then just on the partnerships with BitGo, MoonPay, and others, can you just elaborate on the opportunity set that you see to expand distribution, and what needs to happen for those partnerships to begin contributing more meaningfully to AUM inflows?

Will Peck: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, we just announced them, so very, very recent. Let's take the BitGo example, right? BitGo has a lot of customers, a lot of assets under custody. Some of their customers have not been able to kind of, again, access the risk-free rate kind of natively in a way that's easy for them within the BitGo environment. So, instead of needing to have held-away assets or not being willing to move over more money into BitGo, because they want to have access to their money market fund separately, now within BitGo Mint, they can just access the money market fund WTGXX directly there. So, that's just an example, and we're very excited about that.

I believe BitGo's very excited about it, where you can just make it easier for people to access these products directly in the place that they're doing business today. So, success on these partnerships will be all these relationships continue to grow, and people are seeing it, "Oh, instead of just needing to do my certain crypto trading here or something, I can actually keep more assets in this platform and access WisdomTree's directly there." And it's good for the partner, and it's good for the client, and it's good for WisdomTree. So, we think it's a really nice way to deliver this product to people.

Michael Cyprys: Great. Sorry, just one last one if I could, just on the Binance hack. Just curious your viewpoints there, and just given the significance of that security incident there at Binance. Just curious how these sort of events potentially impact or affect institutional confidence and the pace of adoption of tokenized assets.

Will Peck: Yeah, I mean, it's a great question and very recent. I think we're going to hear more and more news coming out of it. It sounds like the initial reports I read suggested it was some entity affiliated with North Korea doing the hack. Look, for true bearer crypto assets, it might be concerning. One thing that I found to be very interesting in the response to this hack is that the major stablecoin issuers actually froze their stablecoins that were implicated in the hack, and the hacker does not have access to those or is not going to be able to easily.

Which just shows how when you have actual issuer controls on the assets that you're issuing onchain, that the desire for hacking those, like the reward for hacking them, is just much, much, much less. It wouldn't really even be possible to do with our money market fund, for example, in the way that happened there, given how we do the transfer restrictions. Long term, I think this could be, people might have questions about crypto assets on some of these centralized exchanges, but I don't know that it's going to impact stablecoins or tokenized real-world assets that are regulated.

I think we'll see how that kind of continues to develop, but I wouldn't necessarily say it's a negative for those.

Michael Cyprys: Great. Thanks so much.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you.

Operator: The next question is from Chris Kotowski from Oppenheimer. Please go ahead.

John Coffey: Hey, good morning. This is John Coffey on for Chris. I had two questions, one on the digital asset platform and one on your combined public-private ETFs in the future. On the digital asset platform, have you entertained, or maybe if you look out several years in the future, do you think that there could be any significant revenues that could come from maybe tokenization as a service, not just from your asset management fees, but maybe for other people who have certain assets, public or private, who want to wrap them in a token? I mean, it would seem like you would have the technology to do that.

Is that something you've contemplated, or you have some kind of partnerships that could lead to that eventually?

Jonathan Steinberg: Will?

Will Peck: Yeah. It's definitely something we've contemplated. Mentioned that briefly in the prepared remarks and the presentation. There are active conversations regarding it today. I mean, before we get into what the revenue impact of that might be, which we spelled out earlier some of the major areas of revenue we're seeing, we do think it's very constructive for all those ways that we can earn money to have a really viable, thriving ecosystem of onchain funds, onchain ETFs. If we can help bring that about and play a role in that, we would view that to be very constructive. Also, other transfer agents are going to try to do that as well, and that can continue to be constructive.

But we think there's a right way to do this. And would be very customer-friendly, and we do view it being there's going to be a multi-issuer future in this way, and we think our tokenization as a service offering could play a really important role in that.

John Coffey: All right.

Jonathan Steinberg: I also just-

John Coffey: Thanks. Yeah.

Jonathan Steinberg: I just wanted to add, that is one way that we might be able to demonstrate the inherent value in the investments that we've made in the platform, and some of those announcements could be constructive in really closing the gap between how the stock is valued today and what we think the embedded value that we have in onchain investments. So, we're looking forward to pursuing that.

John Coffey: Thank you. I just have one other question. I know, again, it's very early days on these products that would be a joint public and private fund. I was thinking, if we were to look forward to that, do you think the model would be something like what you maybe would have with Ceres, that the private assets would come from a company you own 100% of? Or would it be something more like you would buy private, maybe pre-IPO shares or some kind of private equity holding just from other parties, and those would eventually be put into different funds?

I was just wondering, like essentially how you think about the sourcing of the private equity funds would be, or the private equity assets would be.

Jonathan Steinberg: I think it will be a combination of things that we own completely, like Ceres, and I think that there will be more of a partnership type of relationship in the venture side of bringing privates to equities. We will leave it at that, but I think it will be a combination of both.

John Coffey: Perfect. Thank you very much.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you.

Operator: The next question is from Mike Grondahl from Northland Securities. Please go ahead.

Mike Grondahl: Hey, thanks, guys. We've seen some news about wealth platforms looking to charge ETF platform fees. Just wondering what you think this dynamic looks like potentially for WisdomTree.

Jonathan Steinberg: Bryan or Jarrett? Bryan, you want to go first, I think?

Bryan Edmiston: Sure. I can give you just some outlook as it relates to any potential financial impact, and then maybe, Jarrett, you can fill in with a lot more color. But without getting into any specifics regarding any particular relationships, these third-party distribution fees, they're roughly 3% of our total revenue based on recent experience. We'll formalize our 2027 guidance next quarter, but there shouldn't be a material deviation from this ratio going into next year.

Jarrett Lilien: Yeah, I just double underline that. Distribution economics have been part of what we do for years, so this is part of the business. What we do is we make sure that every dollar spent on a platform fee results in value add to us, so that as we grow assets on the platform, as the platforms grow, we get a return on that money spent. Yes, you have seen recent agreements. Those may affect others more than they do us. We are, as Bryan said, and as I have already said, it is part of what we do, and it works well for us right now.

Jonathan Steinberg: I would just add, the efficiency of our model, the margins that we are demonstrating, is very constructive, that it is a part of the business today. Bryan just said that the outlook may not change as a percentage of revenue, what are we paying for distribution and/or access. So again, having such an efficient model, we can afford this, and it is a part of the business plan.

Mike Grondahl: Got it. Secondly, the portfolio solutions or models business seems to be really accelerating, $10 billion now. What is really driving that, and do you see that continuing?

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you. Jarrett and maybe Jeremy.

Jarrett Lilien: Yeah, I can maybe start on that one. You are right, flows are strong there. The growth in the models and solutions business actually outpaces or leads the growth engine for the firm. Also, I think everyone should recognize the flows are higher quality. They are sort of lower turnover, stickier assets. The areas of continued growth right now that are driving the growth within that growth, custom models in the U.S. have been really gaining a lot of traction and driving the recent growth that we are seeing. Something like Atlantic House is just an incredible addition, and I would say on Atlantic House, a couple things. That integration could not have gone smoother.

We could not be happier with that acquisition. Atlantic House has also added reach to our models and solutions business, and they have added more tools to the toolkit. They will also be contributing great growth to the global effort, and we will also be bringing some of those capabilities to the U.S. to help further accelerate the U.S. effort. It is the major focus area, flows are strong, and they continue to really be a growth driver for the firm as a whole.

Jonathan Steinberg: Okay.

Mike Grondahl: Got it. Thank you.

Operator: As a reminder, to ask a question, please press star one. The next question is from Alex Blostein from Goldman Sachs. Please go ahead.

Aditya: Hey, everyone. This is Aditya filling in for Alex this morning. Thank you so much for taking our question. I had a question on the SEC innovation exemption, and probably just looking for some clarity around that. Your U.S. tokenized funds today are digital funds rather than ETFs. Does the innovation exemption change how you think about bringing the U.S. ETF lineup itself onchain, or does the digital fund wrap or, you know, the name, but that is not really good?

Jonathan Steinberg: Great question. Will?

Will Peck: Yeah, it is a great question. If you look at our filing we made on the tokenized ETF, you look at how our digital funds actually work, as you noted them, it is actually the funds that are issuing the shares directly onchain. It is an issue response or tokenization model where they are really direct registration, right? If you have the share of the money market fund in your wallet, you are on the shareholder register of the fund. It is different than a lot of the various wrapper models that exist out there.

Certainly offshore, you have seen a number of, whether they are notes or kind of other SPVs that are kind of wrapping existing securities and providing exposure to that wrapper, but not necessarily the underlying. With the innovation exemption, you have seen more examples and people trying to bring forward models of which a security entitlement is in there. I think we will see how that kind of continues to evolve. We are very confident in our model of having the fund issue shares directly onchain, what the benefits might come from doing that, and creating a really good investor experience by doing that.

It is going to be important, like the total cost of execution, right, for these exposures, making sure that people can access them in a way that is very convenient for them, and also trade them at a lower execution cost, right? That is something that we are focused on, very confident in our model for doing that, and that model is fully supported within the innovation exemption as well.

Jonathan Steinberg: Will, again, tying tokenized ETFs into your TAMP and into your broker-dealer, the other revenue streams, I mean, does it all hold together?

Will Peck: Yes, absolutely. I mean, this is the direction of travel that we saw probably two years ago now, and it is encouraging to really see it play out in that the way that we have built the platform is, we think, setting up very well for what we think is going to continue to come in this space, including as contemplated in the innovation exemption.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you, Will.

Speaker 11: Great. That is helpful. Thank you.

Jonathan Steinberg: Thank you.

Operator: There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the floor back over to Jonathan Steinberg for closing comments.

Jonathan Steinberg: Well, thank you, everyone, for your interest and attention today, and please continue to watch the WisdomTree story very carefully. There will be a lot of news coming in the future. Thank you all. Have a great day.

Operator: This concludes today's teleconference. You may disconnect your lines at this time. Thank you for your participation.

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