Multibillion Dollar Fund Manager Ruffer Sees Long Trend of Institutional Bitc...
British investment management firm Ruffer has revealed that its bitcoin holdings now account for about 3% of its entire portfolio of approximately $29 billion. The firm believes that we are “at the foothills of a long trend of institutional adoption and financialization of bitcoin.” A Long Trend of Institutional Bitcoin Adoption Ruffer provided an update on the firm’s bitcoin investment this week in its Investment Manager’s Review for the period ending Dec. 31. The firm wrote: We gained our bitcoin exposure via the Ruffer Multi Strategies Fund and two proxy equities....
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