.A significant exchange-traded fund and mutual fund supervisor finds the winning gold trade isn't talked about as long as the artificial intelligence business u00e2 $" but maybe it should be.VanEck chief executive officer Jan van Eck thinks the most ideal investment this year is "the hedge against political cycles." u00c2 To him, that indicates committing in gold.u00c2 " It is actually gently the very best carrying out asset this year," Vehicle Eck informed CNBC's "ETF Advantage" coming from the Future Verification conference in Huntington Seaside on Monday.Gold attacked another document on Friday, its 37th document this year. Since Friday's market close, it is up 28% since the beginning of the year.Van Eck, whose agency runs the VanEck Gold Miners ETF, assumes overseas investments in bullion will continue to give the commodity an improvement. It ought to additionally aid in lifting gold digger greater, which started the year dragging the commodity. But since Friday, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF has started to outshine, up 31% this year." I believe you own both due to the fact that the miners, if they mesmerize in all, it is actually visiting rip," he said.As for the artificial intelligence business, vehicle Eck says it's "impressive" how clients refuse to quit on it." It's like part of folks's version portfolios, or even center profiles, is actually to have this military overweight to partially. As well as a few of our largest clients in fact got on the dip over the last week or 2," the VanEck chief executive officer said.Last month, his agency released the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF. It is actually a companion to its VanEck Semiconductor ETF that excludes providers that run their own shops, such as Intel.FactSet mentions the brand new ETF's leading holdings as Nvidia, Broadcom as well as Advanced Micro Equipments as of Friday." Why devote billions of bucks on building the chips if you don't have to?" vehicle Eck pointed out. "Nvidia doesn't create its own chips. So that is actually another kind of expenditure method." Considering that releasing on Aug. 28, the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF is actually up a half percent.Disclaimer.