US Public Pension Fund for Firefighters Adds Bitcoin and Ether Worth $25 Million to Portfolio
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US Public Pension Fund for Firefighters Adds Bitcoin and Ether Worth $25 Million to Portfolio

THELOGICALINDIAN - The 55 billion alimony armamentarium for the US burghal of Houstons firefighters has appear an advance in bitcoin and ether This advance marks the aboriginal appear advance in agenda assets by a accessible alimony plan in the US

‘A Watershed Moment for Bitcoin and Its Place in Public Pensions’

The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Armamentarium (HFRRF), the alimony armamentarium for the burghal of Houston’s firefighters, appear Thursday that it had purchased bitcoin and ether for the authentic account plan’s portfolio. The advertisement describes:

According to Bloomberg, the Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund has $5.5 billion in assets and it invested $25 actor in bitcoin and ether. The advance was facilitated by the New York Digital Advance Group (NYDIG), a bitcoin advance arm of Stone Ridge Asset Management.

The HFRRF alimony armamentarium handles retirement allowances for added than 6,600 alive and retired firefighters and survivors of firefighters. Alive firefighters accept contributed 9% of their bacon to the armamentarium back 2024, with the burghal of Houston accidental at atomic alert that amount.

“We are aflame to booty this aboriginal footfall advanced into the apple of agenda assets,” commented Ajit Singh, HFRRF’s arch advance officer. He elaborated:

He continued: “This advance expresses our acceptance in the confusing abeyant of broadcast balance technology for the development and democratization of amount accession through disintermediation.”

Singh was additionally quoted by Bloomberg as saying: “I see this as addition apparatus to administer my accident … It has a absolute accepted acknowledgment and it manages my risk. It has a low alternation to every added asset class.”

The HFRRF arch advance administrator adopted to advance in bill directly, rather than demography on accident associated with futures-related investments. He explained: “We didn’t appetite to get the constructed exposure. We absitively to go anon to the token. As added and added institutional adoptions happen, there will be added and added dynamics that advance for accumulation and demand. And accepting concrete assets — absolute tokens — gives us in the approaching the achievability of assets bearing potential.”

Nate Conrad, all-around arch of asset administration at NYDIG, opined:

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