{"id":53316,"date":"2021-11-22T17:55:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53316"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:36:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:36:01","slug":"report-a-third-of-hedge-fund-managers-plan-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/report-a-third-of-hedge-fund-managers-plan-to-invest-in-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: A third of hedge-fund managers plan to invest in cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 31% of hedge fund managers and 24% of their peers with an alternative-investment tilt plan to add cryptocurrency to their portfolios in the next year or two. The figures are from the <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.ey.com\/content\/dam\/ey-sites\/ey-com\/en_gl\/topics\/wealth-and-asset-management\/ey-2021-global-alternative-fund-survey.pdf?download\">\u0438\u0441\u0441\u043b\u0435\u0434\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u0438\u0438<\/a> conducted by Ernst &#038; Young (EY), one of the Big Four accounting firms, in partnership with Greenwich Associates.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, conducted from July to September 2021, involved 264 respondents with assets under management (AUM) above $5 trillion.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest interest in digital assets was shown by managers with AUM between $2 billion and $10 billion (32%) and those above $10 billion (36%).<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, only 7% of respondents had currently invested in the new asset class.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to purchasing digital assets (46%), firms are considering purchasing crypto derivatives (43%), providing financing to private blockchain companies (37%), investments in <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-multisignature-what-is-a-ring-signature\">multisignatures<\/a> (28%) and shares of industry participants that have gone through an <span data-descr=\"initial public offering\" class=\"old_tooltip\">IPO<\/span> (28%).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, in July, the crypto fund Nickel Digital <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/study-finds-82-of-institutional-investors-plan-to-increase-crypto-exposure-in-portfolios\">found<\/a> that 82% of institutional investors and private wealth managers planned to increase the share of digital assets in their portfolios by 2023.<\/p>\n<p> Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some 31% of hedge fund managers and 24% of their peers with an alternative-investment tilt plan to add cryptocurrency to their portfolios in the next year or two. The figures are from EY and Greenwich Associates&#8217; study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"One-third of hedge-fund managers and about a quarter of alt-investment managers plan to add crypto in the near term, EY\/Greenwich find.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1269,1861,1156,167],"class_list":["post-53316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-ernst-young","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"17","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"One-third of hedge-fund managers and about a quarter of alt-investment managers plan to add crypto in the near term, EY\/Greenwich find.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316","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=53316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53318,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53316\/revisions\/53318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}