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Built with the same approach of the Morningstar Wide Moat Focus Index to target moat companies with attractive valuations, Morningstar’s global indexes have impressed thus far in 2022.

The market clamors for a 75bps rate hike in the U.S. today, followed by 72bps more in July. Does this mean that the rest of the world would have to step up policy tightening?

In this wide-ranging conversation, CEO Jan van Eck shares his market commentary and views on Fed policy, venture capital, commodities, crypto and more.

High inflation, the persisting Russia-Ukraine war and global supply constraints continue to drive commodity prices higher.

Investors need to think beyond the 60/40 portfolio in periods of high inflation. Historically, real assets have provided diversification to help manage the impact of inflation.

In recent weeks, recession speculation has intensified, and as a result, more analysts and experts are offering up equity and exchange traded fund ideas.

As 2022 market performance confirms, not much is working, but as the VanEck Vectors Morningstar Wide Moat ETF (CBOE: MOAT) proves, wide moat stocks are performing less poorly than the broader market.

Plenty of asset classes are feeling the pain of high inflation and Federal Reserve interest rate tightening.

With bitcoin prices faltering, it’d be easy for investors to doubt that adoption of digital assets will take flight as hoped.

The S&P 500 Energy Index is up almost 60% year-to-date, easily making energy the best-performing sector.