Crypto and pension funds: Like oil and water, or maybe not?
Pension funds, the most cautious of institutional investors, are now giving the booming crypto and blockchain sector a closer look. There are good reasons why pension funds should not invest in the crypto and blockchain space. The industry is too new, too volatile, and stultifyingly technical. Moreover, the rules and regulations to govern the sector have yet to be settled. But the fixed-income financial instruments that pension funds typically favor — like long-term government bonds — are scarcely paying anything these days, so the traditional caretakers of employees’ retirement funds have....
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