.A major exchange-traded fund and stock fund manager discovers the succeeding gold field isn't discussed as much as the artificial intelligence business u00e2 $" however possibly it ought to be.VanEck chief executive officer Jan vehicle Eck believes the best investment this year is "the bush against political patterns." u00c2 To him, that implies trading in gold.u00c2 " It is silently the best carrying out property this year," Vehicle Eck said to CNBC's "ETF Edge" from the Future Evidence meeting in Huntington Seashore on Monday.Gold struck another file on Friday, its 37th document this year. Since Friday's market close, it is actually up 28% considering that the begin of the year.Van Eck, whose company runs the VanEck Gold Miners ETF, expects overseas assets in bullion will certainly remain to give the commodity an increase. It needs to additionally aid in lifting gold miners much higher, which started the year delaying the item. Yet since Friday, the VanEck Gold Miners ETF has begun to outmatch, up 31% this year." I assume you possess both given that the miners, if they mesmerize at all, it is actually mosting likely to tear," he said.As for the artificial intelligence field, vehicle Eck states it's "outstanding" how financiers refuse to lose hope on it." It's like part of individuals's version collections, or even center profiles, is to have this military overweight to semis. As well as a few of our largest customers actually bought on the plunge over the recently or 2," the VanEck chief executive officer said.Last month, his agency introduced the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF. It's a partner to its own VanEck Semiconductor ETF that excludes business that run their own shops, including Intel.FactSet discloses the new ETF's best holdings as Nvidia, Broadcom and also Advanced Micro Instruments as of Friday." Why devote billions of dollars on developing the potato chips if you do not have to?" van Eck said. "Nvidia does not build its personal chips. To ensure's yet another kind of investment method." Given that introducing on Aug. 28, the VanEck Fabless Semiconductor ETF is actually up an one-half percent.Disclaimer.