Capital Markets & Investment Innovation
Turning investment ideas into differentiated market opportunities.
Global ETF Advisors brings deep experience across ETFs, indexing, exchanges, asset management, and capital markets to organizations developing or evaluating new investment opportunities.

Our work can include:

• ETF and investment product strategy
• Thematic investment development
• Index and benchmark strategy
• Industry classification frameworks
• Public and private market opportunities
• Product positioning and commercialization
• Emerging investment themes

Outcome: Investment concepts and market opportunities that are clearly defined, differentiated, and positioned for commercialization

Blue Economy Advisory
Making the Blue Economy Investable. We work across science, academia, business, and capital markets to help create the financial frameworks necessary for capital to participate and expand Blue Economy opportuniites

Our Blue Economy advisory work includes:

• Blue Economy investment strategy
• Industry classification and taxonomy development
• Public and private company mapping
• Index and benchmark development
• Capital formation strategies
• Public-private investment frameworks
• Strategic partnerships
• Financial institution engagement
• University and innovation ecosystem commercialization

Outcome: Helping transform the Blue Economy from a broad economic concept into a measurable, understandable, and ultimately investable market opportunity

                                     Advisory Services​​
We work with financial institutions, asset managers, and innovators to define strategy, accelerate growth, and bring differentiated investment solutions to market. Our engagements are focused, outcome-driven, and designed to address high-impact decisions in complex and evolving markets. We help clients make better decisions, move with confidence, and build investment solutions that stand out in an increasingly complex market.

Advisory Boards and Independent Trustee Services

​Richard Keary is available to serve on advisory boards and as an independent trustee. He provides experienced, objective oversight with a focus on governance, strategy, and market alignment designed to help organizations navigate complexity while positioning for sustainable growth

Strategic Advisory and Growth

​We work with executives, financial institutions, and entrepreneurs facing important strategic decisions; new markets, changing competitive environments, product opportunities, repositioning, or the next stage of growth.

Our advisory work can include:

• Business and market strategy
• Growth and repositioning
• Competitive positioning
• Commercialization strategy
• New market opportunities
• Executive strategic counsel

Outcome: A clearly defined strategy, prioritized opportunities, and an actionable path forward.

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Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development

Bringing the right organizations to the table. Many of today's most significant opportunities cannot be developed within a single organization or discipline.

We help build collaborations among:

• Financial institutions
• Asset managers and investors
• Entrepreneurs
• Universities and research organizations
• Data and technology companies
• Public-sector organizations
• Innovation and economic-development ecosystems

Our role is to identify complementary capabilities, develop the strategic rationale for collaboration, and help move relationships from introductions to actionable partnerships.

Outcome: Partnerships and ecosystems that expand capabilities, strengthen credibility, and create opportunities that individual organizations may not be able to pursue independently.