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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest, his name is Jan Van Eck,

and he has really a fascinating background in history.

His father built Van Eck Associates in 1955.

He never expected to go into the family business, kind of wandered about aimlessly.

In the podcast portion, we talk about the overlap between our backgrounds.

It's kind of amusing to me, but eventually comes into the business,

which was about a billion dollars in AUM.

And here it is, some 28 years later, and they're up to 56 billion dollars.

He's the CEO and basically runs the shop with a team.

It is an ensemble practice.

They were very early into the world of ETFs, and they do a lot of really

interesting thematic funds.

If you are at all interested in international investments or thematic

investments or ESG investments, then you're going to find this conversation

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