WisdomTree’s Mysterious And Opaque ETF Filing

Occasionally a fund filing would stick out for all the wrong reasons. A recent SEC filing from WisdomTree indicating Vident International Equity Fund was quite interesting.

WisdomTree Trust filed Form N-1 A with SEC highlighting its intention to launch Vident International Equity Fund that would seek to track the price and total return performance of the Vident International Equity Index. The finding was first made by Olly Ludwig of Indexuniverse.

Vident Financial will be developing the Vident International Equity Index underlying the fund.

In the SEC filing, it was indicated that Vident International Equity Fund would focus on developing-world and...