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Jeff Schwartz, president of Markov Processes International, a fintech firm that advises wealth and asset managers, drew a parallel between bitcoin and emerging markets and commodities, two asset classes that gained traction in investors’ portfolios in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Those “were asset classes far better understood by most investors than bitcoin is,” Schwartz said. Nevertheless, “allocations were capped at a very low level (at the time), out of prudence.”
– writes Reuters reporter Suzanne McGee in her story that discusses the approval of U.S. bitcoin ETFs.

We look at the universe of active crypto hedge funds and observe that by and large they delivered on the promise… at least the ones that survived so far.

Investors – and the Feds – need to focus less on specific stories like MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin exposure, and more on how big the systemic risk picture may be for all of us.

A smart Coinbase investment launched Duke into rare heights in FY 2021. We use MPI Stylus to estimate the size of Duke’s Coinbase position and its impact on this year’s results.

It’s been a wild rollercoaster ride these days for Bitcoin investors. The cryptocurrency hit an all-time high of $64k in April only to plummet nearly 50% a month later. Last year, as the entire world shut down access to mountain peaks and surfing spots, people started to look for stay-at-home ways to supply their adrenaline fix – and speculative trading fit the bill.

Bitcoin has had a spectacular year, with its price growing by 2,000 percent, topping out at nearly $20,000 before falling to a little over a third of that value. So, we posed the question to ourselves: how might investors have achieved Bitcoin-like returns over the last two years without needing Ambien to stomach the whipsaw swings in price?