2 Years Ago

Frontier challenges: bringing cryptocurrency investment to mainstream asset management

Written by Dave Shastri, Chief Strategist, Truss Edge

 

The performance of cryptocurrency assets is widely reported and is also now attracting the attention of institutional investors. We are seeing more fund launches being prepared to target this new and rapidly expanding market. But such launches bring with them serious operational questions which fund managers will need to address if they are to attract more permanent institutional capital.

 

The indicators are there for all to see: Fidelity Digital Assets’ 2021 Institutional Investor Study is forecasting a continued acceleration in the adoption of cryptocurrency assets by...


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DAOs: a new-fangled term to bamboozle novices into parting with their cash, but what role can they really serve?

Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) in the digital assets sector have been around since 2015 when by a team called Slock.it launch the first DAO. Slock.it’s  intention was to raise capital for different projects and start-ups. Using a smart contract, Slock.it programmed-in voting rights and ownership so that the initial investors in Slock.it received a token that gave them a share in the dividends, and capital loss and gains in direct proportion to the % of money that was raised. This was, in many...


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3 Years Ago

A seasoned Investor take on the similarities between crypto and derivatives

 Written by Bryan Coyne is a non-executive Director of Kasei Holdings PLC and a director of emerging markets at  BGC Partners.

The 1983 movie “Trading Places” changed my life. It tells the story of an upper-crust executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd) and down-and-out hustler Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) who are the subjects of a bet by successful brokers Mortimer (Don Ameche) and Randolph Duke (Ralph Bellamy) That was the day I realised my mundane legal career was going nowhere. I was intrigued by the world of derivative trading and the...


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