Founded in 1955 and headquartered in New York City, VanEck is a leading fund management company with a total asset under management of more than $80 billion as of August 31, 2021 and a well-established presence in major international markets including China, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, and Switzerland. It has been the winner of Lipper Fund Award, an award for fund management firms in the US, for six years in a row since 2014. VanEck is one of the world's top ten leading fund firms for trading ETFs and launched the world's first Bitcoin ETN on Xetra in 2020 and Ethereum ETN in 2021.