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| Title: Seeking Tax-Efficient Monthly Income While Investing in Innovation Across the Nasdaq-100 Index® |
| Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2026 |
| Time: 2:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time |
| Duration: 1 hour |
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For advisors, generating meaningful income for clients is only part of the equation. How that income is generated, and the tradeoffs for taxes, growth potential, and risk, can be just as important. As options-based ETFs continue to evolve, advisors have more tools to pursue income and manage portfolio outcomes, but with a growing number of strategies, it’s important to understand that not all approaches are created equal. Join Nasdaq and NEOS Investments, an award-winning ETF issuer, for an educational discussion on innovation within the Nasdaq-100 Index® and how Nasdaq-100-linked options can be used to pursue income, tax efficiency, and differentiated return profiles across a range of investor objectives. You’ll hear from Kevin Davitt, Nasdaq’s Head of Index Options Content, who will discuss continued innovation surrounding the Nasdaq-100 Index®, along with Troy Cates and Wes Mathews of NEOS Investments, who will explore how NEOS ETFs seek to bring income innovation to the Nasdaq-100 Index®. What You’ll Learn:
Register to gain practical insights from Nasdaq and NEOS Investments and explore how options-based strategies may help pursue tax-efficient monthly income while aligning portfolio outcomes with client goals. Accepted for 1 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credit |
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Kevin Davitt has worked as Nasdaq’s Index options content lead since 2022. In this role he creates and presents materials that help market participants understand the risk and potential power of options. Much of his work focuses on index options like NDX® and XND®. Prior to Nasdaq, Kevin was a Senior Instructor in Cboe’s Options Institute. Davitt also spent years as an options market maker, trading equity, ETF, and index products on and off floor. |
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Troy Cates has over 25 years of trading and portfolio management experience, with a vast knowledge of both the equity and options markets. He is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of NEOS Investments. Troy has helped create, launch, and manage numerous options-based ETFs and investment firms throughout his career. Troy served as a Managing Director at Harvest Volatility Management where he helped manage and trade the firm’s institutional portfolios and ETFs, along with guiding the development of the firm’s exchange traded products. Prior to Harvest, Troy served as Managing Director, Head of Trading and Portfolio Manager at Horizons ETF Management U.S. and has enjoyed roles as Partner and Head of Trading at Recon Capital where he oversaw portfolio management and trading for all of the firm’s investment funds. |
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Wes Mathews is a Senior Managing Director at NEOS Investments and serves as the Head of Investment Strategy, focused on building options based income solutions. His experience in the financial markets has focused on product development, trading, portfolio management and distribution. Prior to joining NEOS, he served as a Principal and Senior Director at Milliman Financial Risk Management (FRM) for over a decade. At Milliman, he led the Product Development, Portfolio Solutions, and Distribution teams, where firm assets under advisement (AUA) grew to over $180 billion. An early contributor to the defined outcome ETF market, Mathews worked closely with the founders of Innovator ETFs to launch the industry’s first Buffered ETFs in 2018. Prior to Milliman, he specialized in outsourced fixed-income portfolio management and was a derivatives trader for a proprietary group, focused on U.S. Treasury and Eurodollar futures and options. Wes is also a CFA charterholder. |
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Keith Black has over thirty years of financial market experience, serving approximately half of that time as an academic and half as a trader and consultant to institutional investors. He currently serves as Managing Director of Education for RIA Channel. He previously served as the Managing Director of Curriculum and Exams for the CAIA Association. At Ennis Knupp + Associates, Keith advised foundations, endowments, and pension funds on asset allocation and manager selection strategies in hedge funds, commodities, and managed futures. Prior experience includes commodities derivatives trading, stock options research, Cboe floor trading, and building quantitative stock selection models for mutual funds and hedge funds. |
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An investment in NEOS ETFs involve risk, including possible loss of principal. The equity securities purchased by the Funds may involve large price swings and potential for loss.
The use of derivative instruments involves risks different from, or possibly greater than, the risks associated with investing directly in securities and other traditional investments. These risks include (i) the risk that the counterparty to a derivative transaction may not fulfill its contractual obligations; (ii) risk of mispricing or improper valuation; and (iii) the risk that changes in the value of the derivative may not correlate perfectly with the underlying asset, rate or index. Derivative prices are highly volatile and may fluctuate substantially during a short period of time. The use of leverage by the Fund, such as borrowing money to purchase securities or the use of options, will cause the Fund to incur additional expenses and magnify the Fund’s gains or losses. The earnings and prospects of small and medium sized companies are more volatile than larger companies and may experience higher failure rates than larger companies. Small and medium sized companies normally have a lower trading volume than larger companies, which may tend to make their market price fall more disproportionately than larger companies in response to selling pressures and may have limited markets, product lines, or financial resources and lack management experience. The funds are new with a limited operating history.
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NEOS Investments was awarded "Best Options Strategies ETF Issuer ($1bn-$10bn)" at the 2025 ETF Express U.S. Awards. Trackinsight has provided the pre-selection data for ETF issuer shortlists since 2020. To determine candidates, all ETFs that have been listed for the past 12 months are included. For each award category, an issuer’s ETFs within that category are combined to calculate total AUM. Issuers with less than USD 100 million in average assets over the review period are excluded. Shortlists are formed based on the percentage change in AUM over the prior 12 months, and in some categories, issuers are further grouped by asset-size tiers. The resulting shortlist goes into an industry voting survey, with each company limited to 10 internal votes. After review, votes are tallied to determine the winners.
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