Podcast #89 | Jan Van Eck: "Some Index Fund Companies Have Become Too Large To Be Left Unchecked."

In episode #89 of the Boardroom Governance Podcast, Evan Epstein talks with 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.

In this podcast, they talk about Jan’s recent article “ESG Died in 2022: CEO Op-Ed and his proposal of capping the percent of shares that any index fund company could vote of a portfolio company’s voting shares (at 5%).

They also discuss:
👉 Geopolitics, China, and the current state of capital markets.
👉 Bitcoin and crypto regulation.
👉 Public markets vs private markets.
👉 Silicon Valley, NYC and current corporate governance trends.

You can listen to the episode directly in the Boardroom Governance Podcast website (where you can find all the show notes), or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts such as in: Apple, Spotify, Google, Amazon or Stitcher.

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