- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management - Leveraged
- Address
- 3 Lombard Street London Ireland EC3V 9AA
- IPO Date
- Jul 5, 2013
- Business
- WisdomTree Multi Asset Issuer Public Limited Company (WisdomTree Multi Asset Issuer PLC) serves as a special purpose vehicle that issues and sponsors collateralized exchange-traded notes (ETNs) and products (ETPs), including leveraged, inverse, and short strategies across equities, commodities, currencies, fixed income, and cryptocurrencies; its flagship offerings feature UCITS-eligible ETPs such as the WisdomTree FTSE 100 1x Daily Short (SUK1.L), which provides inverse daily (-1x) performance to the FTSE 100 Daily Short Strategy RT Gross TR Index through fully collateralized swap replication without securities lending. The company operates primarily in Europe, listing products on exchanges like the London Stock Exchange, and targets institutional and retail investors seeking tactical trading tools, risk management, and exposure to short strategies in major indices. Incorporated in 2012 and domiciled in Ireland with its registered office at 2nd Floor, Block 5, Irish Life Centre, Abbey Street Lower, Dublin 1, it functions under the WisdomTree brand as an orphan SPV, purchasing total return swaps from counterparties like BNP Paribas to hedge ETP liabilities.
The WisdomTree FTSE 100 1x Daily Short ETN (ISIN: IE00B94QKG22), structured as a collateralized debt instrument with an ongoing charge of 0.55% and no UCITS compliance due to its complex leveraged nature, holds a single swap position representing 100% exposure to the short FTSE 100 index, enabling investors to profit from daily declines in the UK's largest blue-chip companies; it trades in GBX on the LSE with assets around £15 million. Products like SUK1.L are available for sale in Austria, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, and the United Kingdom, emphasizing daily reset mechanics suitable for short-term hedging rather than long-term holding.
In recent developments, WisdomTree, the sponsoring group, completed the acquisition of Ceres Partners, LLC in October 2025 for $275 million upfront plus a potential $225 million earnout, marking its entry into private asset markets focused on U.S. farmland investments with adjacencies in solar, AI data infrastructure, and water rights; this follows the July 2025 announcement and expands beyond ETPs into income-generating real assets. Additionally, WisdomTree launched the WisdomTree Physical Lido Staked Ether ETP (LIST) in December 2025, the first fully staked ETH product in Europe holding only stETH for onchain staking rewards and liquidity. These moves, alongside record AUM growth to $126.1 billion in Q2 2025, reflect strategic expansions into private markets, digital assets, and thematic ETPs amid ongoing product unification under the WisdomTree brand since 2019.