Keith Carlson - VanEck Gaming President CEO

BJK Etf  USD 43.22  0.30  0.70%   
Keith Carlson is Portfolio Manager at VanEck Gaming ETF
Mr. Keith J Carlson is the President, Chief Executive Officer of Market Vector Trust Funds since 2004. He served as the President of the Adviser and Van Eck Securities Corporation Private Investor Independent Consultant, Waddell Reed, Inc. Officer of three other investment companies advised by the Adviser.
Age 57
Tenure 20 years
IssuerVan Eck
Inception Date2008-01-22
BenchmarkMarket Vectors Global Gaming Index
Entity TypeRegulated Investment Company
Asset Under Management44.27 Million
Average Trading Valume3,225.7
Asset TypeEquity
CategorySector
FocusConsumer Discretionary
Market ConcentrationBlended Development
The fund normally invests at least 80 percent of its total assets in securities that comprise the funds benchmark index. Vaneck Gaming is traded on NYSEARCA Exchange in the United States. VanEck Gaming ETF [BJK] is traded in USA and was established 2008-01-22.

VanEck Gaming ETF Money Managers

Chris Peterson, ETF Portfolio Manager
Thomas Brussard, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Frank Vallario, ETF Portfolio Manager
Betty Tong, ETF Portfolio Manager
Ryan Harder, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Brendan Sullivan, ETF Portfolio Manager
Adam Cohn, ETF Portfolio Manager
Susan Lashley, Vice President
Michael Feehily, ETF Portfolio Manager
James Mauro, ETF Portfolio Manager
Peter Spano, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Jay Hatfield, ETF Portfolio Manager
Stephanie Shu, ETF Portfolio Manager
Donald Butler, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Ted Janowsky, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
James King, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Devin Sullivan, ETF Portfolio Manager
David Young, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Eric Ervin, ETF Portfolio Manager
Linda Killian, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Charlotte Cipolletti, ETF Portfolio Manager
John Lewis, ETF Portfolio Manager
Louis Lu, ETF Portfolio Manager
William Coleman, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Naveen Kumar, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Darren Wills, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Christopher Lo, ETF Portfolio Manager
Joanna Madden, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
David McGarel, ETF Portfolio Manager
Justin Hales, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Rachel Ames, ETF Portfolio Manager
Carlos Lopez, ETF Portfolio Manager
Dan Ahrens, ETF Portfolio Manager
Philip Fang, ETF Portfolio Manager
Teresa Zheng, ETF Portfolio Manager
Matthew Brown, ETF Portfolio Manager
Devin Ryder, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jeffrey Kernagis, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jonathan Nixon, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Przygoda, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Thomas Lynch, Chief Compliance Officer
Scott Hanson, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Ted Randall, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Hayley Peppers, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Greg Savage, ETF Portfolio Manager
Lisa Hobart, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Stephen Smitley, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Richard Stamberger, Trustee
David Chin, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Benoit Autier, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Bruce Smith, CFO, Senior Vice President
Daniel Hare, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Louis Bottari, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Travis Trempe, ETF Portfolio Manager
Peter Zilver, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Ernesto Tong, ETF Portfolio Manager
Ian Carroll, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Daniel Ong, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
John Kaprich, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Thomas Durante, ETF Portfolio Manager
Karen Wong, ETF Portfolio Manager
Anand Desai, ETF Portfolio Manager
Andrew McDonald, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jon Erickson, ETF Portfolio Manager
Cyrille Conseil, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Seth Kadushin, ETF Portfolio Manager
Oliver Furby, ETF Portfolio Manager
Alexander Ilyasov, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Payal Gupta, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Raymond Donofrio, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Robert Regan, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Steven Boyd, ETF Portfolio Manager
John Kartsonas, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jeffrey Miller, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
John Gardner, ETF Portfolio Manager
Luis Berruga, ETF Portfolio Manager
Andrea Roemhildt, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Daniel Lindquist, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Finocchi, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Bryan Richards, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jeffrey Ploshnick, ETF Portfolio Manager
Beckham Wyrick, ETF Portfolio Manager
Thomas Coleman, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Charles Su, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Samuel Masucci, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Akins, ETF Portfolio Manager
Benhood Noei, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Cindy Gao, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Guo Jin, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Andrew Hicks, ETF Portfolio Manager
Karl Schneider, ETF Portfolio Manager
Joshua Barrickman, ETF Portfolio Manager
John Love, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Shlomo Bassous, ETF Portfolio Manager
Alfred Ratcliffe, Vice President Treasurer
Charles Ragauss, ETF Portfolio Manager
William Baird, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Derek Eck, Executive Vice President
Jonathan Simon, Vice President Assistant Secretary
Andrew Serowik, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Timothy Collins, ETF Portfolio Manager
Paul Brown, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
William Smith, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Diane Hsiung, ETF Portfolio Manager
Emiliano Rabinovich, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Roger Testin, ETF Portfolio Manager
Deane Gyllenhaal, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Alex Hamilton, ETF Portfolio Manager
Greg Barrato, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jennifer Hsui, ETF Portfolio Manager
Bradley Sullivan, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Denise Krisko, ETF Portfolio Manager
Gerard OReilly, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Brunell, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Mitchell Firestein, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Patrick Dwyer, ETF Portfolio Manager
Tarak Dave, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Rafael Zayas, ETF Portfolio Manager
James Harrison, ETF Portfolio Manager
Nam To, ETF Portfolio Manager
Francis Rodilosso, ETF Portfolio Manager
Ray Allen, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Venuto, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Loeffl, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Awais Khan, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Keith Richardson, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Perre, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Scott Radell, ETF Portfolio Manager
Tony Seisser, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
HaoHung Liao, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Johnson, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Eric Viliott, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Stan Ueland, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Kastner, ETF Portfolio Manager
Richard Brown, ETF Portfolio Manager
Alan Mason, ETF Portfolio Manager
Paul Fusaro, ETF Portfolio Manager
Patrick Waddell, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Paul Benson, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jonathan Guyer, ETF Portfolio Manager
David Chow, Trustee
Darrell Jayroe, ETF Portfolio Manager
Chang Kim, ETF Portfolio Manager
Jeff Peters, ETF Portfolio Manager
Adrian Bachman, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Scott Geiger, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michelle Louie, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Eric Isenberg, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Richard DarbyDowman, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
James Francis, ETF Portfolio Manager
Paul Yook, ETF Portfolio Manager
Teddy Wong, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Gold Corporation, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
James Colby, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Steven Hlavin, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Ryan Mischker, ETF Portfolio Manager
Mark Krivitsky, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Timothy Ryan, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Juan Acevedo, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Jeanette, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Christopher Wrazen, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Robert Netzly, ETF Portfolio Manager
Daniel TenPas, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Joseph Barrato, ETF Portfolio Manager
Mike Feehily, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Edward Ryan, ETF Portfolio Manager
Peter Matthew, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Qiong Wan, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Robert Anstine, ETF Portfolio Manager
James Ong, ETF Portfolio Manager
Alastair Short, Trustee
Eduardo Repetto, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Theodore Samulowitz, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Charles Cameron, Vice President
Olga Winner, ETF Portfolio Manager
Walter Nejman, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Robert Parker, ETF Portfolio Manager
David Hemming, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Marc DiCosimo, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Dustin Lewellyn, ETF Portfolio Manager
William Flaig, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Byrum, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Loeffler, ETF Portfolio Manager
Catherine Wood, ETF Portfolio Manager
Nicholas DEramo, ETF Portfolio Manager
Dwayne Hancock, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Gary Jones, ETF Portfolio Manager
David Swallow, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Richard Ose, ETF Portfolio Manager
George Chao, ETF Portfolio Manager
Navid Sohrabi, ETF Portfolio Manager
Christine Franquin, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Sean Lussier, ETF Portfolio Manager
Keith Carlson, President CEO
Kala ODonnell, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Melissa Kapitulik, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Hailey Harris, ETF Portfolio Manager
Fred Zhang, ETF Portfolio Manager
Michael Neches, ETF Portfolio Manager
Travis Trampe, ETF Portfolio Manager
Cynthia Moy, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Orhan Imer, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Peter Hubbard, ETF Portfolio Manager
Joseph McBrien, Senior Vice President Secretary, Chief Legal Officer
Jan Eck, Executive Vice President Trustee
Robert Cummings, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
Todd Bean, ETF Portfolio Manager
James Kramer, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager
George Cao, ETF Portfolio Manager
Kyle Kelly, Van Eck ETF Portfolio Manager

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Pair Trading with VanEck Gaming

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if VanEck Gaming position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in VanEck Gaming will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

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The correlation of VanEck Gaming is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as VanEck Gaming moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if VanEck Gaming ETF moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for VanEck Gaming can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
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