Jan Van Eck: "Some Index Fund Companies Have Become Too Large To Be Left Unchecked."

Welcome to the Boardroom Governance Podcast. I’m your host, Evan Epstein. In this episode, I talk with Jan Van Eck, the President & CEO of Van Eck Associates Corporation, an investment firm based in New York with about $75 billion in assets under management and 400 employees. Jan has created strategic beta, tactical allocation, emerging markets, and commodity-related investment strategies in mutual fund, ETF, and institutional formats. He founded the Firm’s ETF business in 2006. One of the world’s largest ETF sponsors, the Firm offers ETFs, branded VanEck, globally across equity and fixed income asset classes. In this podcast, we talk about a recent article that he wrote titled “ESG Died in 2022: CEO Op-Ed.” We also discuss geopolitics, China, and the state of capital markets. In addition, we talk about crypto regulation, public markets vs private markets, among many other relevant corporate governance topics. If you like this show, please consider subscribing, leaving a review or sharing this podcast on social media. You can find all the show notes on the website boardroom-governance.com and please feel free to subscribe to the Boardroom Governance Newsletter at evanepstein.substack.com