Investment Strategies

We believe that companies driven by domestic demand and local consumer trends represent the future of emerging markets and global economic growth. By using an active, disciplined, bottom-up process, the VanEck Emerging Markets Strategy has the flexibility to invest across market capitalizations, sectors, and regions.

Our forward-looking, disciplined strategy focuses on exceptional companies that exhibit visible and persistent growth trends in emerging market countries.

VanEck’s long history of looking beyond traditional markets is reflected in our 30-year history of investing in emerging markets debt. Today, we offer active and passive investment solutions, from flexible strategies than span asset classes to ones that target a specific area of the market to exploit opportunities across sovereigns and corporates in both hard and local currencies.

ETFs are purpose-built, aimed at either providing exposure to asset classes that are underrepresented in investor portfolios or offering a different approach to established investment categories.  Our ETFs span many global asset classes and are built to be transparent, liquid, and pure-play reflections of target markets. 

The over 50 year longevity of the Gold Equity strategy reflects the commitment that VanEck maintains to one of the most vital metals in the world, which continues today across both actively and passively managed solutions.

VanEck pioneered commodity-equity investing with the nation’s first gold equity strategy in 1968 and reaffirmed its leadership when it was among the first to provide investors an actively managed portfolio of diversified natural resource equities in 1994.

Today, our capabilities span actively and passively managed strategies, from physical commodities to natural resource equities. We offer specialized exposure to individual sectors and diversified solutions with broad exposure across sectors and industries.

Continuing our pursuit of forward-looking strategies, we identified a need for asset allocation strategies that adapt across market conditions,

Designed to participate meaningfully in bull markets and to de-risk in bear markets, our Guided Allocation strategies share common attributes, including objective, rules-based approaches, the ability to position defensively in times of market stress, and the use of liquid, cost-effective ETFs for broad, efficient exposures.

A company’s moat refers to its ability to maintain the competitive advantages that are expected to help it fend off competition and maintain profitability into the future. Morningstar’s moat investing philosophy provides investors with access to its forward-looking equity research, which seeks to identify economic moats and assess each company’s fair value.

VanEck’s passively managed fixed income strategies provide investors thoughtful exposure to potentially underrepresented asset classes or offer a differentiated approach to established investment categories.

The ability to take advantage across the credit spectrum and duration were the catalysts behind VanEck’s foray into passively managed approaches to fallen angel high yield and floating rate notes in the early 2010s.