Eric Fine

Team head, portfolio manager, economist, and trader with a demonstrated history of outperforming in the emerging markets fixed income and FX universe. Successfully manage teams and portfolios with local-currency, hard-currency, sovereign, and corporate exposures. Managed portfolios (mutual fund, ETF, SMA, UCIT) are all top-quartile 1-10 years. Manage world’s first Blend EM bond strategy and first actively managed EM bond ETF (Australia-listed); the only EM bond funds to have zero Russia exposure before/during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Winner of 18 Lipper awards (2024, 2025) and Best International Bond Fund award from Investor's Business Daily (at VanEck). Institutional Investor, Euromoney and other emerging markets research awards (at Morgan Stanley). Designed and built Russia’s first securities clearing system. Early education and career was national-security focused, including weapons system design (cruise-missile target acquisition systems) and reporting directly to Special Assistant to President Reagan during overseas assignment (as Assistant Political-Military Attaché); personally briefed Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Yegor Gaidar, and Anatoly Chubais. Maintained US security clearances including Top Secret designation. Worked directly for Virginia Governor Charles S. Robb (D - Virginia) in wide range of capacities. Born, lived and worked overseas (Paris, Geneva, Bangkok, Panama City, Moscow, London). Been to Brazil more than to China. Comfortable with many languages. Founded Young Democrats at Langley High School. Bayes before economics. ** Disclaimer** For important disclosures, please see VanEck’s social media disclaimer page at https://www.vaneck.com/us/en/social-media-disclaimer/