Fidelity Research Finds Increasing Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency
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Fidelity Research Finds Increasing Institutional Interest in Cryptocurrency

THELOGICALINDIAN - A analysis analysis commissioned by Fidelity Investments and conducted by Greenwich Associates has apparent that abutting to 50 percent of institutional investors accept that cryptocurrency and agenda assets in accepted are a aces advance class

Digital Assets are a Viable Investment

Fidelity Digital Assets appear the after-effects of the analysis in a Medium post appear on Thursday (May 2, 2019). According to the post, about seventy percent of the analysis participants bidding absolute sentiments about cryptocurrency.

Of the 441 institutional investors that alternate in the study, about 47 percent advised agenda assets to be an avant-garde play. About 46 percent additionally articular the low alternation of agenda assets with the boilerplate bazaar as one of the above additional credibility of the arising asset class.

Institutional Investors Interested in cryptocurrency

Since 2018, there has been a cogent advance in institutional captivation in cryptocurrency investments. University award funds and U.S. accessible alimony funds accept taken up advance positions in agenda assets.

The analysis additionally showed that ancestors offices and banking admiral had the better absorption in agenda assets. As ahead appear by Bitcoinist, Grayscale Investments acquaint almanac advance balance in 2018 with institutional investors reportedly consolidatig their stratetgic position in the market.

An extract from the analysis address reads:

Cryptocurrency: Alternative or Independent Asset Class

The Fidelity analysis additionally accent an arising breach in the advance aesthetics in big money players absorbed in accumulation cryptocurrencies as allotment of their advance portfolios. About 32 percent of such respondents see agenda assets as an another asset chic while 15 percent adopt cryptocurrency as an absolute asset class.

The charge for able-bodied careful solutions was, however, a accepted affair for the majority of the analysis participants. About 76 percent of the institutions complex in the analysis articular aegis protocols as the best important constant for cryptocurrency custody.

Exchange platforms beyond the bazaar abide to abatement victims to hackers with about $1 billion baseborn in 2018 alone. In an interview with Bloomberg, Tom Jessop, admiral of Fidelity Digital Assets declared that big-money players would adopt trusted custodians to cryptocurrency startups alms custodial services.

According to Jessop:

Do you anticipate the accepted massive arrival of institutional money into the cryptocurrency bazaar will appear aural the abutting bristles years? Let us apperceive your thoughts in the comments below.

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