SEC-Registered Investment Adviser
Van Eck Absolute Return Advisers Corp.
Legal name: Van Eck Absolute Return Advisers Corporation
Registration facts are from the firm's Form ADV Part 1A as published by the SEC, latest filing dated March 30, 2026. Figures are firm-level: they describe the advisory firm, not any single offering.
Registration
- Status
- Approved
- Registered since
- January 18, 2006
- Principal office
- 666 Third Avenue, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10017-4033
- Organized as
- Corporation, DE
- Fiscal year end
- December
Scale
- Regulatory AUM
- $3.1B
- Accounts
- 14
- Clients
- 0
- Employees
- 271, 30 in advisory roles
- Private funds advised
- 7
- Private fund gross assets
- $571.5M
- Fund types
- 2 hedge funds, 1 liquidity funds, 2 venture capital funds, 2 other private funds
- Funds with Form D records
- 5 issuers in AltStreet's ledger, $278.9M reported sold across them
- Client assets in custody
- $464.2M (6 clients)
Business, clients and compensation, as filed
- Advisory activities
- portfolio management for investment companies and portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles
- Compensated by
- a percentage of assets under management and performance-based fees
- Client types
- investment companies (8); pooled investment vehicles (6)
- Also engaged as
- commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor
- Related persons include
- a broker-dealer, another investment adviser, a commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor and a sponsor, general partner or managing member of pooled investment vehicles
- Affiliates
- 1 broker-dealer, 8 investment advisers
Form ADV Item 11 disclosures
The firm answered yes to the following Item 11 questions. The answers cover the firm and its advisory affiliates; the Disclosure Reporting Pages on IAPD identify the subject and the outcome.
- SEC or CFTC finding of a false statement or omission (Item 11C(1))
- SEC or CFTC finding of a violation of regulations or statutes (Item 11C(2))
- SEC or CFTC order against the firm or an affiliate (Item 11C(4))
- SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist (Item 11C(5))
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Source: SEC Form ADV via IARD (roster of October 6, 2026), matched to the platform by AltStreet analysts. Item 11 answers are as reported on the firm's Form ADV and cover the firm and its advisory affiliates; consult the firm's IAPD record for the Disclosure Reporting Pages. Brochure statements are the firm's own. Nothing on this page is investment advice.