How to invest?

Fulfilling Your Investment Goals

Currently, interest rates on savings are around, or even below, zero percent. That makes what to do with your savings a burning question. If you want to make a return on your money, there’s no alternative to considering how to invest with other options.

Investing, if you do it wisely, can lead in the long run to attractive returns. There are a number of guidelines that will help you to be successful, as well as potential pitfalls to avoid. It’s crucial to understand how to invest considering the inherent risks and thus to mitigate them.

What to Invest in?

Individual investors typically invest in one of the four following asset classes, beyond cash. Each of them has its own risk and return profile, and its own place in an investor’s portfolio. Click on the following buttons in order to find out more about how to invest in each asset class:

This information is intended only to provide general and preliminary information to investors and shall not be construed as investment, legal or tax advice. For questions regarding investing or trading please contact your advisor, brokerage or bank. Please contact your tax advisor before making an investment.

How to Invest and Compose a Portfolio

In order to create a balanced portfolio, we recommend combining different asset classes. Normally, they fluctuate in value independently of each other, which will help to reduce your portfolio’s volatility or risk. Your appetite for risk and return should determine how you mix the different asset classes.  If you are seeking higher returns and are willing to accept higher risk, you should consider allocating a larger part of your portfolio to equities and real estate. However, if you want to dial down risk, you could invest more in bonds. Select your preferred risk profile from the menu below and see what asset allocation could go with it.

Depending on your preference, we offer six strategies to choose from covering all the regular asset classes.

Click on the example investments for more information:

Example Balanced Portfolio

  Asset class Example Investment* Weight

*By clicking the link to each Example Investment you are guided to a VanEck product that invests in the asset class selected. For Commodities and Real Estate it shall be noted that the VanEck products are not directly invested in real estate/commodities, but via real estate/gold miners stocks.

This information is intended only to provide general and preliminary information to investors and shall not be construed as investment, legal or tax advice. For questions regarding investing or trading please contact your advisor, brokerage or bank. Please contact your tax advisor before making an investment.

 

Why Invest in VanEck ETFs?

VanEck is different from other asset managers in three key ways:

  • We are privately held, allowing us to focus on our clients’ long-term interests
  • Since we were founded in 1955, we have constantly been at the forefront of innovation, giving investors access to new opportunities like gold funds, emerging market funds and ETFs
  • Our ETFs are transparent: they acquire the underlying securities (no synthetic replication). Securities are not lent out.1
1This only holds for VanEck’s European ETFs.
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