Interest from institutional investors in cryptocurrencies has been undoubtedly rising with each passing year, sparking a flurry of crypto and digital asset initiatives launched with non-retail participants in mind.
What we’ve known for a while, is that hedge funds and family offices have partaken in the whirlwind digital asset market, but the level tends to drop off at the more traditional asset management end of the spectrum.
Traditional asset managers have held back from dipping their toes into this explosive market due to its volatile nature, a lack of appropriate infrastructure and by accountability to their end investors. In their eyes, the cryptocurrency market still has some growing up to do.
But once the many remaining questions around regulation and infrastructure are solved, and new products – whether that’s derivatives or ETFs – crop up, the rise in asset management participation is inevitable.
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