{"id":49332,"date":"2021-09-13T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T10:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=49332"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T09:11:04","slug":"billionaire-alan-howards-hedge-fund-to-invest-in-digital-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/billionaire-alan-howards-hedge-fund-to-invest-in-digital-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Alan Howard&#8217;s hedge fund to invest in digital assets."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brevan Howard Asset Management, the hedge fund founded by billionaire Alan Howard, has opened BH Digital, a unit for investing in cryptocurrencies, according to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSKBN2G90HK\\\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The unit will be led by Colleen Sullivan, head of CMT Digital, who will also serve as chair of the crypto strategy council.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\\\">\n<p><em>Colleen Sullivan&#8217;s track record in venture investing will be a huge advantage for Brevan Howard&#8217;s clients. The launch of BH Digital will allow the company to \\&#8221;significantly expand\\&#8221; its presence in the cryptocurrency space,<\/em> said Brevan Howard CEO Aron Landy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In April, it was reported that Brevan Howard <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-to-begin-investing-in-cryptocurrencies\">will invest up to 1.5% <\/a>of the <span data-descr=\\\"assets under management\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">AUM<\/span> totaling $5.6 billion directly in digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Alan Howard participated in funding rounds for the <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-backs-custodian-komainu-in-25-million-series-a-round\">custody service Komainu<\/a>, its <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-invests-25-million-in-copper-the-london-custodian\">competitor Copper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/alan-howard-and-nydig-back-bottlepays-micro-payments-service-in-a-15-5-million-seed-round\">micropayments service Bottlepay<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/billionaire-alan-howard-backs-hedge-fund-that-invested-600-million-in-bitcoin\">the hedge fund One River Digital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s 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>The hedge fund Brevan Howard Asset Management, founded by billionaire Alan Howard, has opened BH Digital, a unit for investing in cryptocurrencies, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49333,"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":[1269,1156],"class_list":["post-49332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332","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=49332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49334,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49332\/revisions\/49334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}