[7][8] WisdomTree's dividend strategy is influenced by Professor Jeremy Siegel's research, which proposes that dividend-paying companies may offer superior long-term performance with lower risk.

[10][7][11][12] WisdomTree, Inc. was incorporated by its chief executive officer and founder, Jonathan Steinberg, in Delaware as Financial Data Systems, Inc., on September 19, 1985.

The same year, it was reported that WisdomTree was going to invest $20 million in Boost to give it working capital to build out its European business.

[17] WisdomTree has been expanding into other digital assets, such as the launch of cryptocurrency ETPs in Europe, which are listed on the Swiss stock exchange.

According to a 13D regulatory filing with the SEC from January 2022, ETFS Capital chairman Graham Tuckwell described what he saw as the underperformance of WisdomTree and said the company had “been unwilling to date to work constructively” toward giving him a seat on the board since discussions began.

The filing revealed ETFS Capital and Lion Point Capital had entered into a Group Agreement to “seek changes to the composition of the board and management” of WisdomTree, with the intention to “work constructively with the issuer to arrive at a solution that puts the issuer in the best position to unlock value for the benefit of all stockholders”.

[19] In a regulatory filing from March 14, 2022, WisdomTree issued a ‘poison pill’, officially known as a shareholder rights agreement, to prevents any investor from acquiring more than 10% of the common stock in the company until the day after the company’s annual general meeting in June or potentially until March 2023 if extended by a shareholder vote.

WisdomTree common stock began trading on the NYSE at market open on November 7, 2022, under the new ticker symbol “WT”.