{"id":43739,"date":"2021-06-04T10:11:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=43739"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T10:42:12","slug":"herman-gref-calls-cryptocurrency-the-riskiest-investment-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/herman-gref-calls-cryptocurrency-the-riskiest-investment-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Herman Gref calls cryptocurrency the riskiest investment instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Gref, head of Sberbank, said that the safest investment instrument is a bank deposit, while the most dangerous he named cryptocurrencies and stocks.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntv.ru\/novosti\/2560701\/\">NTV<\/a>, Gref said that a bank deposit is completely reliable, but it does not offer a very high return.<\/p>\n<p>The head of Sberbank regards cryptocurrencies and the stock market as the riskiest instruments. He noted that there is &#8216;a combination of yield and risk&#8217; between them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;There is a large number of instruments today that allow minimising risk and achieving more or less adequate returns. These are all sorts of fixed-income instruments,&#8221; said Gref.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, the head of Sberbank described Bitcoin as a &#8220;technical instrument for transactional activity,&#8221; not an investment asset.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herman Gref, head of Sberbank, said that the safest investment instrument is a bank deposit, while cryptocurrencies and stocks are the most dangerous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43740,"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":[416,1138],"class_list":["post-43739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-german-gref","tag-opinions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"37","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43739","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=43739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43741,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43739\/revisions\/43741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}