John C. van Eck, CFA
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John C. van Eck, CFA
Founder, Van Eck Associates Corporation
Founder, Van Eck Securities Corporation
Founder, Van Eck Funds Corporation
Chairman of the Board, Van Eck Associates Corporation
- A well-known pioneer of international and gold investments.
- Founded International Investors Incorporated in 1955 to provide a convenient investment vehicle for Americans to invest in foreign growth stocks.
- Concluding that worldwide inflation would lead to gold mines offering better growth prospects than industrial and financial investments, Mr. van Eck moved the bulk of the portfolio into gold-mining shares in 1968 in time to participate in the great gold bull market of the 1970s.
- MBA, Harvard University; BA, Williams College.
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