Jan van Eck

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382 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 27 May

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It's...

Yeah.

No, I would say it's really not fair to compare it to the S&P.

But of course, investors did that.

And for several years, it outperformed the S&P, not just that year, but cumulatively over its whole life.

So that's where most of the growth in AUM happened.

Mm-hmm.

You know, it's lagged.

I mean, that was really heroic to have done that in 2023, for example, which was after the tech sell-off in 22 was a recovery year.

So there were really some good years for that approach.

It's lagged a little bit because it's missed some of the explosions in semis.

believe it or not.

So it's lost a little bit of its assets in the last couple of years.

Yeah.

So we were the first ETF sponsor to file for a Bitcoin ETF in 2017.

And the reason for that was very simple.

I saw it as a competitor to gold.

Some of our clients... Of course, Bitcoin was going up much, much faster than it has recently.

And so we said...

Just like there's platinum and silver to gold, Bitcoin would be an alternative.

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