Summary
The U.S. market dividends will continue to grow in 2025. Key sectors such as Banks, Energy, Financial Services, and Pharmaceuticals continue to lead this expansion, while the TMT sectors are gaining attention with recent initiations, reinstatements, and projected growth.
At the same time, dividend-related derivatives are gaining momentum with increasing volumes and interest in these instruments.
Join us for an insightful discussion on leveraging market movements after the elections, managing risk, and maximizing the profitability of dividend-related derivatives. S&P Global Market Intelligence Dividend Forecasting analysts, in collaboration with CME Group experts, will explore the risks and opportunities within major indices constituents and dividend-related derivatives.
Speakers
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Ryan Boyd
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Head of Business Development, US Dividend Forecasting
Ryan leads business development for the Dividend Forecasting team in the Americas at S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Ryan has almost a decades experience in financial services, capital markets and research. He partners with clients and industry leaders to identify gaps in their workflows and new use cases to develop innovative solutions that will create value, increase efficiencies and solve pressing issues for the industry.
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Amira Abdulkadir
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Director, Head of ETF Management
Turning ETF data into tradable liquidity—accurate, timely, and scalable.
Turning ETF data into tradable liquidity—accurate, timely, and scalable.
Amira has been passionate about ETFs for more than a decade, bringing a deep understanding of ETF data and ETF markets. She works closely with ETF issuers, market makers, authorized participants (APs), and other stakeholders across investing, risk, compliance, and trading desks, helping ensure teams have the information they need to operate and trade with confidence.
Amira, head of ETF Product Management oversees the delivery of a normalized daily feed for global, multi‑asset‑class ETPs. The service also provides complete underlying constituent information together with daily NAV, Shares Outstanding, AUM, and Creation Units.
In addition, Amira brings hands‑on experience running, expanding, and modernizing ETF Forecasting as US Head of the Dividend Forecasting team, improving how forward‑looking basket and portfolio information is produced and distributed to the market. By increasing coverage, consistency, and speed of these workflows, ETF forecasts support tighter execution, better price discovery, and increased liquidity and secondary‑market trading.
Amira holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Vika Tambaeva
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Lead Research Analyst, Dividend Forecasting
Vika Tambaeva is the Dividend Research Analyst in AMER, Equity Data & Analytics at S&P Global Market Intelligence
Vika is responsible for dividend forecasting analysis in the American region with a focus on the United States and Canada. She leads the U.S. research initiatives at the S&P Global Research Team. Her primary coverage is the North American Energy Sector.
Vika holds an MBA degree from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College of New York, NY.
CME Group
Joseph Hickey
CME Group
Executive Director, Equity Products
Joseph Hickey serves as Executive Director, Equity Products at CME Group, where he is responsible for developing and overseeing the company’s offerings across equities, alternative assets and cryptocurrencies. His market expertise is in linear strategies, cross-asset trading, macro products and the futurization of OTC derivatives to manage balance sheet costs.
Hickey previously served as Global Head of Trading at BlockFi, where he expanded the firm’s institutional trading relationships and risk management processes. Prior to that, he managed an institutional distribution team at CME Group, responsible for building relationships across the buy-side, sell-side and intermediaries. He also held
leadership roles at Bank of America and began his career at Goldman Sachs.
He earned a combined bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from Stony Brook University, and a master’s degree in quantitative finance from the Michael Smurtfit School of Business in Dublin, Ireland. He is active in professional organizations with both CFA and FRM designations.