Can Bitcoin Solve UK’s Pension Predicament?
American multinational financial services corporation, Morgan Stanley, has predicted that the U.K.’s Pension Protection Fund are likely to record their worst deficit ever. What is the Pension Protection Fund? Set up in April 2005, the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) was established to pay a pension to members of eligible defined benefit pension schemes if....
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The largest public pension in the U.S. bought more RIOT shares for the first time since 2017.
Pension funds, insurance companies and other institutional investors matter because they invest for the long term, helping solve crypto’s volatility problem. Last week’s Merge was the “most significant development in the history of the Ethereum network,” according to Fidelity Digital. And from a purely technical standpoint, the blockchain network’s transition from a proof-of-work (PoW) to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism was a marvel. Widely compared to changing a jet engine mid-flight, the software upgrade proceeded with nary a glitch on Sept. 15. Overnight, too, Ethereum, the....
The $5.5 billion pension fund for the U.S. city of Houston’s firefighters has announced an investment in bitcoin and ether. “This investment marks the first announced investment in digital assets by a public pension plan in the U.S.”
‘A Watershed Moment for Bitcoin and Its Place in Public Pensions’
The Houston Firefighters’ Relief and Retirement Fund (HFRRF), the pension fund for the city of Houston’s firefighters, announced Thursday that it had purchased bitcoin and ether for the defined benefit plan’s portfolio. The....
Crypto exchanges Coinbase and OKX are closing in on Australia’s self-managed superannuation funds (SMSF), according to a Bloomberg report. The move will enable everyday Australians to add digital assets to their retirement fund and further increase the country’s pension funds’ crypto exposure. With cryptocurrencies getting more mainstream, this could be a huge plus in boosting […]