Status Quo - Portfolio Manager VanEck Employee Review

2.0
18 Jan 2017
Recommend
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Pros

Trading floor is empty by 5 PM. Friendly employees. Lots of lifers doing the same thing day in / day out. No accountability for performance. Family business so dead weight is allowed.

Cons

Decisions made by a very tight group of the inner circle. Need at least 15 years of time at Van Eck before viewed as the inner circle. Losing revenue to larger players causing draconian expense management measures including increasing employee health care contribution by 350%. Technology stuck in the 1990s and IT does not have the skills to modernize.

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5.0
15 Apr 2026
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Pros

True culture of accountability starts at top. When you’ve worked for a large bureaucratic asset manager, VE culture is refreshing. If you’re lazy and unaccountable, you won’t enjoy

Cons

Would be nice to have a share of the success like equity or tracking stock.

1.0
27 May 2026
Recommend
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Pros

HR is friendly and nice work with

Cons

The new manager take advantage of his title and don’t even know his accounting. He would call the auditor duirng busy time to ask who make up the affiliate in the footnote. Took him three days to review simple financial statement, didnt know the IRR formula or understand waterfall. Make excuse and get away with anything. Sign off financial statement with the incorrect NAV. He cant check without your formula. How can someone pretend review if they dont know what they doing. Only copy file then reformat and take the credit. The director don’t communicate with team on any update.

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