Welcome to Van Eck Global, one of the first U.S. investment management firms to help investors invest globally. Van Eck offers global investment choices in hard assets, emerging markets, precious metals including gold, and other specialized asset classes, through actively managed mutual funds, exchange traded funds, and institutional and separately managed accounts. Van Eck International Investors Gold Fund, the first gold mutual fund in the U.S., was launched in 1968 and remains one of the firm's flagship Funds.