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Trading tokenised funds: efficiencies and challenges
Written by Peter Habermacher, CEO Aaro Capital
The size and popularity of mutual funds are mind boggling. In the US alone, almost half of US households own shares of mutual funds, and their net assets were just under $24 trillion in 2020. Is there scope for using blockchain technology to process transactions and record share ownership in this asset class? Even if moderate efficiency gains can materialise, the sheer size of this market has the potential to generate one of the strongest use cases for blockchain technology. In this note, we discuss the potential efficiencies and...
Written by Peter Habermacher, CEO Aaro Capital
The size and popularity of mutual funds are mind boggling. In the US alone, almost half of US households own shares of mutual funds, and their net assets were just under $24 trillion in 2020. Is there scope for using blockchain technology to process transactions and record share ownership in this asset class? Even if moderate efficiency gains can materialise, the sheer size of this market has the potential to generate one of the strongest use cases for blockchain technology. In this note, we discuss the potential efficiencies and...