.A major exchange-traded fund and stock fund manager finds the succeeding gold trade isn't talked about as long as the artificial intelligence field u00e2 $" however possibly it ought to be.VanEck CEO Jan vehicle Eck believes the greatest investment this year is actually "the bush versus political patterns." u00c2 To him, that suggests investing in gold.u00c2 " It is gently the very best conducting property this year," Van Eck told CNBC's "ETF Edge" coming from the Future Evidence seminar in Huntington Seaside on Monday.Gold struck an additional file on Friday, its 37th file this year. As of Friday's market close, it is up 28% since the begin of the year.Van Eck, whose agency runs the VanEck Gold Miners ETF, assumes international assets in bullion are going to remain to provide the item a boost. It ought to additionally aid in elevating gold digger much higher, which started the year dragging the commodity. But since Friday, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF has begun to outperform, up 31% this year." I assume you own both given that the miners, if they catch up whatsoever, it's going to tear," he said.As for the AI business, truck Eck says it's "impressive" exactly how real estate investors refuse to give up on it." It resembles part of folks's model profiles, or even center collections, is actually to have this military over weight to partially. And some of our biggest customers actually got on the dip over the recently or two," the VanEck chief executive officer said.Last month, his company introduced the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF. It is actually a companion to its VanEck Semiconductor ETF that omits business that run their personal shops, such as Intel.FactSet mentions the new ETF's best holdings as Nvidia, Broadcom and Advanced Micro Gadgets since Friday." Why invest billions of dollars on building the potato chips if you do not have to?" truck Eck pointed out. "Nvidia does not construct its personal chips. To ensure is actually another sort of investment strategy." Considering that introducing on Aug. 28, the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF is up an one-half percent.Disclaimer.