Jamie Wise of BUZZ Holdings on Measuring Social Sentiment (EP.141)

On this week’s episode, I got the chance to talk with Jamie Wise, a fellow Canadian and the brains behind the hottest ETF on the markets right now. The VanEck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF, trading under $BUZZ, garnered a lot of buzz (pun intended) when it started trading on March 4 thanks in-part to backing from influential Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy. What’s exciting about the BUZZ ETF is that it uses AI to analyze investor sentiment across over 15 million online posts a month. The ETF currently holds 75 stocks with at least a $5 billion market cap. The power of measuring sentiment has been on my mind for a while; we even announced our own sentiment tracker at Stocktwits back in 2012. And on the heels of the GameStop event, conversations about sentiment and its power have never been more important. In this episode, Jamie and I chat about his company BUZZ Holdings, ETFs, measuring sentiment, algorithms, the GameStop event, the rise of the retail investor, how we approach the markets and more. 

Guest - Jamie Wise, CFA, Founder and CEO of Buzz Holdings, & President and CEO at Periscope Capital

howardlindzon.com, investwithbuzz.com, periscopecap.com 

Twitter: @howardlindzon, @investwithbuzz, @knutjensen 

linkedin.com/in/jamie-wise-20133815 

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