{"id":36408,"date":"2021-02-13T20:37:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=36408"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T03:13:39","slug":"media-morgan-stanley-unit-with-150bn-assets-eyes-bitcoin-investments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/media-morgan-stanley-unit-with-150bn-assets-eyes-bitcoin-investments\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Morgan Stanley unit with $150bn assets eyes Bitcoin investments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counterpoint Global, the Morgan Stanley Investment Management unit, is considering the possibility of investing in Bitcoin. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/linked\/94815\/morgan-stanleys-150b-investment-unit-is-exploring-bitcoin-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg<\/a> reports.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To begin investing in cryptocurrency, the firm with assets under management of $150 billion must first secure approval from Morgan Stanley and regulators.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Counterpoint Global, one of our active-management teams, is focused on long-term investments in companies whose market value could rise substantially for fundamental reasons,&#8221; according to Morgan Stanley&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last month the financial conglomerate <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-acquires-11-stake-in-microstrategy\">Morgan Stanley<\/a> acquired 11% of MicroStrategy&#8217;s shares, aggressively investing in digital gold.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Morgan Stanley&#8217;s chief global strategist Ruchir Sharma <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/morgan-stanley-bitcoin-could-strip-the-dollar-of-its-reserve-currency-status\">said<\/a> that Bitcoin could deprive the dollar of its reserve-currency status.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the ForkLog channel on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCC9FnXTC8_ENzaNSO5cHQ6g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> YouTube<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counterpoint Global, the Morgan Stanley Investment Management unit, is considering the possibility of investing in Bitcoin. Bloomberg reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,873],"class_list":["post-36408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-morgan-stanley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36410,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36408\/revisions\/36410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}