Nick Cherney, CFA

Nick Cherney is Head of Exchange Traded Products at Janus Henderson Investors. He is also President and Chief Executive Officer of Janus Detroit Street Trust, and Clayton Street Trust. Nick was the chief investment officer and co-founder at VelocityShares from 2009 until Janus’ acquisition of the company in 2014. Prior to VelocityShares, he worked at Barclays Capital in New York and had product development and management responsibilities for iPath ETNs. Previous to this role, Nick was a portfolio manager for iShares at Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco, where he managed more than US$25 billion of ETF assets across asset classes. Earlier, he was an index research analyst at Barclays Global Investors. Nick is frequently sought out by leading financial publications and news agencies including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Barron’s, among others.

Nick received a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the University of California – Berkeley, where he graduated with highest honours. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and has 18 years of financial industry experience.