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ProShares, ProFunds
7501 Wisconsin Avenue
Suite 1000 - East Tower
Bethesda, MD  20814
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Main Phone: 888-776-5717
Web Site: http://www.proshares.com

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ProFunds, ProShares [ETFs]

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  • Background:
    Founded in 1997 by Michael Sapir and Louis Mayberg, ProFunds started out as one of a handful of mutual funds firms specializing in leveraged and inverse products. (Mayberg and Sapir both previously worked with a similarly focused firm: Rydex.)

    In June of 2006, the ProFunds team claimed an industry first with the launch of their first short and leveraged ETFs under their new ProShares affiliate. Sapir describes this as the beginning of the second phase of the company's history, and he notes that "ProShares quickly overtook ProFunds in size."

    Phase three, Sapir says, began in 2015, when the ProShares team "got serious about offering buy-and-hold ETFs" (in contrast with most of the prior ProShares ETFs and ProFunds mutual funds, which were favored by active traders). In 2021, ProShares entered the thematic ETF space.
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    Key People:
    Michael Sapir
    Chairman, CEO, Co-Founder, ProFunds Group
    Louis Mayberg
    Co-Founder, ProFunds Group
    Ben Fulton
    Managing Member, Elkhorn Consulting, LLC
    Annette Lege
    Chief Financial Officer, ProShares
    Joanne Hill
    ProFunds Group
    Amy Doberman
    General Counsel, ProFunds Group
    William Seale
    Chief Economist, ProFunds Group
    Don Roberson
    Managing Director, Distribution, ProFund Advisors, LLC
    Steve Cohen
    Managing Director, Strategy and Marketing, ProFunds Group
    Rick Kendrick
    Marketing SVP, Neuberger Berman Management Inc.
    Tim Coakley
    Chief Financial Officer, ProShares | ProFunds
    ProShare Advisors LLC
    David Foxhoven
    Executive Vice President, Operations, ProFunds
    Christa Hokenson
    Chief Human Resources Officer, ProFunds
    Aaron Hassinger
    Vice President, Account Manager - Defined Contribution Practice, PIMCO Investments LLC
    Story Archive for ProShares, ProFunds
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    7/24/2024 BlackRock Won Two-Thirds of Passive Inflows Last Month MFWire.com
    6/4/2024 On Friday, ProShares Will Double Its Ether ETF Lineup MFWire.com
    5/20/2024 Passive Flows Plunge By $70B MFWire.com
    5/8/2024 Lege Joins a $570B-AUA AM's C-Suite MFWire.com
    4/4/2024 A $65B-AUM AM's Team Winds Down a 6-Year-Old ETF MFWire.com
    4/3/2024 ProShares Adds 2 More Bitcoin ETFs, With Twists MFWire.com
    3/26/2024 Active Inflows Return After a 28-Month Gap MFWire.com
    2/27/2024 Active Outflows Shrink By 96 Percent, And ... MFWire.com
    2/22/2024 With a $15B Spike, Vanguard Regains the Lead MFWire.com
    2/14/2024 A 27-Year-Old AM Comes to the Spiral MFWire.com
    1/26/2024 December Was a $118B Passive Month MFWire.com
    12/20/2023 I Spy a New Covered Call ETF MFWire.com
    12/13/2023 SSGA Wins With a $15.684B Inflows Jump MFWire.com
    11/28/2023 Active Outflows Grow By $23.4B, But ... MFWire.com
    11/20/2023 Schwab Pulls Ahead With $1.71B MFWire.com
    10/26/2023 Vanguard and JPM Repeat Their Flows Victories MFWire.com
    10/23/2023 $62.622B and Counting MFWire.com
    10/17/2023 ProShares Will Soon Cater to Ether Skeptics, Too MFWire.com
    10/2/2023 A $60B-AUM Firm's Crypto-Linked ETF Lineup Quadruples MFWire.com
    9/27/2023 Active Outflows Climb 41 Percent In a Month, And ... MFWire.com
    9/21/2023 With a 54-Percent Inflows Jump, WisdomTree Wins MFWire.com
    8/23/2023 JPMAM Threepeats, and BlackRock Repeats MFWire.com
    8/17/2023 VanEck Leads With a 32-Fold Inflows Jump MFWire.com
    7/21/2023 Midside Firms' Outflows Quadruple In Q2 MFWire.com
    6/28/2023 JPMAM Takes the Active Inflows Lead With $5.5B MFWire.com
    6/22/2023 With $951MM, Baird Repeats Its Win MFWire.com
    5/17/2023 Baird Wins With $1.081B MFWire.com
    4/21/2023 With $3B, Pacer Takes the 2023 Lead MFWire.com
    3/20/2023 BNY Mellon Leads With $2.3B MFWire.com
    2/21/2023 Midsize Flows Improve By $36B MFWire.com
    2/3/2023 Equity Funds Are the Sole, $637MM Bright Spot MFWire.com
    1/20/2023 ProShares Takes the Lead With $15B MFWire.com
    1/9/2023 A 30-Year Invesco Vet Joins a C-Suite MFWire.com
    12/23/2022 Equity MF Outflows Fall 89 Percent MFWire.com
    12/19/2022 Pacer Leads As Midsize Outflows Shrink By $5B MFWire.com
    12/1/2022 Eyeing Revolution, a $60B-AUM Firm Plugs In a New ETF MFWire.com
    11/22/2022 One Month, $102B In Net Outflows MFWire.com
    11/16/2022 WisdomTree Repeats With $2.068B MFWire.com
    10/25/2022 Net Active Flows Worsen By $67B MFWire.com
    10/19/2022 WisdomTree Leads With $1.9B MFWire.com
    10/5/2022 20 Fund Firms Win Big With FAs MFWire.com
    9/26/2022 Net Active Flows Improve By $26B MFWire.com
    9/20/2022 $15B In Inflows In Eight Months MFWire.com
    9/9/2022 $96.9B In Outflows and Counting MFWire.com
    8/16/2022 ProShares Three-Peats, Netting About $3B MFWire.com
    7/27/2022 Passive Inflows Fall By $42B; Active Outflows Fall By $19B MFWire.com
    7/21/2022 ProShares Leads As 17 Percent of Midsize Firms Win Inflows MFWire.com
    6/28/2022 A Distro Leader Retires From a $65B-AUM Firm MFWire.com
    6/15/2022 ProShares Leads a Shrinking Midsize Winners List MFWire.com
    5/23/2022 Direxion Leads As the Midsize Winners List Shrinks MFWire.com
    4/19/2022 ProShares Three-Peats With $2.59B MFWire.com
    3/16/2022 ProShares Repeats Atop Midsize Firms' Shrinking Inflows Pack MFWire.com
    2/25/2022 Passive Inflows Plunge By $74B, And ... MFWire.com
    2/16/2022 41 Percent of Shrinking Inflows Go to These Firms MFWire.com
    1/20/2022 Despite a Rough Finale, Midsize Inflows Returned In 2021 MFWire.com
    12/7/2021 A Journalism Vet Joins a $75B-AUM Shop's C-Suite MFWire.com
    8/19/2021 A $59B-AUM ETF Shop Celebrates a Decade and a Half MFWire.com
    7/30/2021 A $60B-AUM Shop Puts a Bitcoin Strat In an MF MFWire.com
    3/16/2021 Midsize Inflows Rise 33 Percent MFWire.com
    3/12/2021 100 Fund Firms Win Big, With Morgan Stanley Leading the Pack MFWire.com
    11/12/2020 An ETF Entrepreneur Leaves a $44B-AUM Shop MFWire.com
    9/16/2020 2020 Inflows Reach 46 Percent of This Shop's AUM MFWire.com
    8/17/2020 For Two-Thirds of Midsize Firms, 2020 Flows Are Still In the Red MFWire.com
    7/17/2020 Two-Thirds of 2020 Outflows Came From Midsize Firms MFWire.com
    5/18/2020 Midsize Outflows Plunge 96 Percent MFWire.com
    4/3/2020 iShares and the Godfather of ETFs Win Big MFWire.com
    3/6/2020 170 Fundsters Gather As 92 Fund Firms Win Big MFWire.com
    10/15/2019 A Midwestern ETF Shop Retakes First MFWire.com
    7/22/2019 Pimco and BlackRock Win In June MFWire.com
    3/29/2019 BlackRock and a Top BlackRock Alum Both Win Big MFWire.com
    3/8/2019 T. Rowe, Fidelity, Pimco and OpFunds Crush It In Gotham MFWire.com
    2/25/2019 ProShares Wins as Mid-Size Flows Stabilize MFWire.com
    2/1/2019 ETF Titans Lead an Award Race MFWire.com
    1/28/2019 Active Outflows Dwarf Passive Inflows MFWire.com
    11/20/2018 An Inverse Index Fund Specialist Takes the Lead MFWire.com
    9/17/2018 Bridge Builder's Lead Widens MFWire.com
    7/26/2018 Sapir Ropes an ETF Entrepreneur MFWire.com
    6/11/2018 Week In Preview, June 11-17 MFWire.com
    5/31/2018 Despite Slipping, an ETF Shop Keeps the Pole Position MFWire.com
    2/28/2018 Nuveen, Vanguard, T. Rowe, and Fidelity Dominate in the Big Apple MFWire.com
    2/27/2018 ProShares Takes the Midsize Lead MFWire.com
    2/7/2018 Despite Market Woes, an Inverse ETF Keeps On Ticking MFWire.com
    1/29/2018 First Trust and Bridge Builder Lead the Monthly Pack, Again MFWire.com
    10/17/2017 TD's NTF ETF Platform Expands, Minus a Giant MFWire.com
    10/2/2017 ProShares Crushed It In August MFWire.com
    9/7/2017 Filings For Fundsters - September 7, 2017 MFWire.com
    9/5/2017 Filings For Fundsters - September 5, 2017 MFWire.com
    8/3/2017 New Fund Fuss - August 3, 2017 MFWire.com
    7/24/2017 USCF and Edgewood Had a Fantastic June! MFWire.com
    3/24/2017 Vanguard, Nuveen, and Morgan Stanley Win Big in Gotham MFWire.com
    2/10/2017 Punching Above Your ETF Weight MFWire.com
    1/12/2017 The New Fund Fuss - January 12, 2017 MFWire.com
    10/10/2016 ETF Shops Rake In $6B Per Year MFWire.com
    8/26/2016 Filings for Fundsters - August 26, 2016 MFWire.com
    3/23/2016 101 Fund Families Win in Gotham MFWire.com
    1/20/2016 iShares, SSgA, and WisdomTree Lead This Pack MFWire.com
    4/1/2015 Cap Group, Fidelity, and Pimco Break Out the Champagne MFWire.com
    3/20/2015 ProShares and iShares Win Big MFWire.com
    12/12/2014 Vanguard and iShares Have 8 of the 10 Hottest ETFs MFWire.com
    11/21/2014 The Ten Biggest Fund Shops Now Control 58 Percent of the Assets MFWire.com
    10/21/2014 Sapir Strikes Gold With His Latest ProShares Hire MFWire.com
    5/7/2014 Has ProShares Learned from Its Amateur Glitch? MFWire.com
    12/2/2013 Vanguard, Fido, T. Rowe, J.P. Morgan, DFA and OpFunds Take Bigger Slices of the Growing Pie MFWire.com
    11/19/2013 Rekenthaler Proclaims the Oddest ETF MFWire.com
    10/28/2013 ProShares Bumps a Sales Honcho MFWire.com
    10/10/2013 ProShares Goes Aristocratic MFWire.com
    7/15/2013 Unique ETF Ideas Keep on Coming MFWire.com
    7/10/2013 And the Week Goes to ... a SPDR! MFWire.com
    7/2/2013 Some ETF Investors Ignore the Great Rotation MFWire.com
    7/1/2013 ETF Splits: The Retail Investors Suffer The Most MFWire.com
    6/10/2013 ProShares Will Tap Into Credit Default Swaps MFWire.com
    6/7/2013 ProShares' Sapir Makes Two Big Hires MFWire.com
    4/17/2013 Bloomberg Examines Some VIX Funds MFWire.com
    3/27/2013 Big Cash Flows Into Leveraged Volatility Funds MFWire.com
    3/4/2013 ProShares Tries to Widen its Investor Appeal MFWire.com
    2/28/2013 ProShares Grows Alts Line with Private-Equity ETF MFWire.com
    2/15/2013 ProShares Is Looking for Two Sales Honchoes MFWire.com
    2/13/2013 Bond Worries Fuel ETF Growth MFWire.com
    2/8/2013 Stork and Reaper for The Week of February 4, 2013 MFWire.com
    2/8/2013 ProShares Rebrands and Discounts a Five-Star ETF MFWire.com
    1/18/2013 Stork and Reaper for the Week of January 14, 2013 MFWire.com
    1/11/2013 Forbes Details the ETF Landscape MFWire.com
    1/10/2013 ProShares Readies a New Product MFWire.com
    12/20/2012 Volatility ETFs Are Finally Doing Alright, Sorta MFWire.com
    12/17/2012 An ETF Shop Hunts For a National Sales Director MFWire.com
    12/17/2012 WSJ Highlights a ProShares ETF MFWire.com
    12/11/2012 ProShares Flies with BATS MFWire.com
    11/28/2012 ProShares Preps Another Junk Bond ETF MFWire.com
    11/27/2012 ProShares May List on BATS MFWire.com
    10/31/2012 ProShares Plans to Self-Index MFWire.com
    9/11/2012 ProShares Beats a Class-Action MFWire.com
    6/19/2012 Sapir's Latest Plan Emerges, With Active Management MFWire.com
    6/11/2012 "Big Dogs" Gathering Around ETFs May Mean a Fight MFWire.com
    5/23/2012 Sapir Claims Another First for ProShares MFWire.com
    5/14/2012 Seeking Alpha Adds 20 ETFs to Death Watch MFWire.com
    3/29/2012 ProShares Bulk Up Its Product Line MFWire.com
    2/13/2012 ProShares Helps Investors Bet On Inflation, Again MFWire.com
    1/27/2012 SEC Hires a ProFunds Alum MFWire.com
    10/6/2011 ProShares Gasses Up Two New ETFs MFWire.com
    10/5/2011 ProShares Spices Up its Futures Portfolio MFWire.com
    7/14/2011 ProShares' New ETF Mimics Hedge Funds MFWire.com
    6/14/2011 iShares and Vanguard Beat Out Rivals in 401k MFWire.com
    4/6/2011 ProShares Offers Two More Ways to Short Treasuries MFWire.com
    4/1/2011 A National Pub Touts a Few 'Good Funds' MFWire.com
    2/10/2011 ProShares TIPS its Inverse ETF Hand Again MFWire.com
    1/4/2011 New ProShares ETFs Offer Exposure to Equity Market Volatility MFWire.com
    12/21/2010 ProShares Begins a Fresh Chapter with New Ads MFWire.com
    12/9/2010 ProShares: We are the Alternative ETF Company MFWire.com
    11/3/2010 Proshares to Offer Hedge Fund-Like ETF MFWire.com
    8/11/2010 A ProShares ETF Rides the Anti-Euro Sentiment MFWire.com
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