Exhibit (i)(4)

	Philip H. Newman	Goodwin Procter LLP
	617.570.1558	Counsellors at Law
	pnewman@	Exchange Place
	goodwinprocter.com	Boston, MA 02109
		T: 617.570.1000
		F: 617.523.1231

April 30, 2010

Van Eck Funds
335 Madison Avenue, 19th Floor
New York, New York 10017

Re:	Van Eck Funds
	Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to Registration Statement on Form N-1A
	File Nos. 002-97596; 811-04297

Ladies and Gentlemen:

As counsel to Van Eck Funds (the “Trust”), a voluntary association with transferable shares under Chapter 182 of the Massachusetts General Laws, commonly referred to as a “Massachusetts business trust”, we have been asked to render our opinion with respect to the issuance of an unlimited number of Class Y shares of stock of the Trust (the “Shares”), par value $0.001 per share, representing interests in the Emerging Markets Fund, Global Hard Assets Fund, International Investors Gold Fund and Multi-Manager Alternatives Fund (the “Funds”), each a series of the Trust, as more fully described in the prospectuses and statements of additional information contained in Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to the Registration Statement.

We have reviewed such documents and made such examination of law as we have deemed appropriate to give the opinion expressed below. We have relied, without independent verification, on a certificate of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and, as to matters of fact material to the opinion set forth below, on a certificate of the Secretary of the Trust. We also have assumed that the Shares will be issued and sold in accordance with the terms and conditions of the effective Registration Statement, including the prospectuses and statements of additional information contained therein, as supplemented and/or amended from time to time, and that ownership of the Shares will be duly recorded in the books of the Trust.

The opinion expressed below is limited to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Based upon the foregoing, we are of the opinion that the Shares, when issued and sold, will be validly issued, fully-paid and non-assessable by the Trust.

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the references to our firm as legal counsel for the Trust in the Registration Statement. This consent shall not constitute an acknowledgment that we are within the category of persons whose

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consent is required under Section 7 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder.

Sincerely,

/s/ GOODWIN PROCTER LLP

GOODWIN PROCTER LLP