About O’Shares | Investment Principles
O’Shares Investments provides ETFs for long-term wealth management, with an emphasis on quality across our family of ETFs. O’Shares provides a series of ETFs, designed for investors with objectives ranging from growth and capital appreciation, to income and wealth preservation. Each of the O’Shares ETFs reflects our rules-based investment philosophy, including quality as an important characteristic.
At O’Shares, we prefer the ETF form of investment fund for cost-effective, tax-efficient, and transparent access to investment portfolios. At O’Shares, we aim to serve investors by keeping investing simple, straightforward and easy to understand.
O’Shares ETFs are all managed according to rules-based indexes, and all are listed on the NYSE.
Leadership
KEVIN O’LEARY, CHAIRMAN
You know me from ABC’s Shark Tank and CNBC as an investor who demands performance, limited risk and cash returns on each investment. O’Shares has created the first in a series of innovative ETFs with my investment philosophies in mind.
Anyone who has seen me on ABC “Shark Tank” knows that I am a disciplined investor, who also wants to see entrepreneurs and other investors succeed. When I invest for the long term, I focus on my three core investment requirements:
- Income, which means investing in companies that generate cash flow and pay dividends;
- Wealth Preservation, protecting investment capital by diversifying and limiting volatility;
- Capital Appreciation, investing in quality companies with strong financial performance.
At O’Shares, our goal is to provide investors efficient access to investment funds that are focused on these core investment requirements. We developed O’Shares Investments ETFs because we were challenged to find any other ETF or strategy that attempted to provide all three core investment principles: income, wealth preservation and capital appreciation. Currently there are approximately 1700 ETFs and we identified about 50 that focus on one or two of these investment principles, but not all three. Our team worked with global index partner FTSE Russell, who created innovative rules based indices on a global basis (US, Europe and Asia Pacific) that reflect our requirements: income, wealth preservation and capital appreciation. We are proud to introduce our family of ETFs starting with OUSA, now listed on the New York Stock Exchange. I created the OUSA ETF for my family’s long term investment objectives because I always want to own a diversified portfolio of high quality U.S. stocks that have low volatility and pay dividends.
CONNOR O’BRIEN, CEO/PRESIDENT
“As CEO / President of O’Shares and a value yield investment manager, our goal is to remain true to our core investment principles: Income, Wealth Preservation and Capital Appreciation; and provide individual and institutional investors with a series of ETFs designed to be core long-term investment holdings. Combining a rules-based approach with several investment factors, we created innovative multi-factor “Smart Beta” investment products that meet our criteria and attempt to provide attractive performance and limited volatility with an emphasis on income.”
Mr. O’Brien is President and Chief Investment Officer of Stanton. Mr. O’Brien has extensive global investment experience encompassing over 25 years of involvement in the Canadian, U.S. and international markets. His career includes 15 years in New York, first in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets at Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch, and then in private equity management, followed by management of portfolios invested in Canadian and global securities. Mr. O’Brien is a graduate of Dartmouth College (MBA) and Middlebury College (BA in Physics and Economics).
