{"id":91693,"date":"2025-12-02T20:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=91693"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:10:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:10:18","slug":"bank-of-america-advises-allocating-1-4-of-portfolios-to-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/bank-of-america-advises-allocating-1-4-of-portfolios-to-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America Advises Allocating 1-4% of Portfolios to Cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America (BoA), one of the largest banks in the United States, is advising its institutional clients to allocate between 1% and 4% of their portfolios to digital assets. This was reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/bank-of-america-says-its-wealth-management-clients-may-put-up-to-4-of-their-portfolio-in-crypto-220028738.html\">Yahoo Finance<\/a>, citing a statement from the organization&#8217;s <span data-descr=\"chief investment officer\" class=\"old_tooltip\">CIO<\/span>, Chris Hyzy.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;For investors with a strong interest in thematic innovations and who are willing to tolerate increased volatility, it may be advisable to invest 1\u20134% in cryptocurrencies,&#8221; stated the senior executive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This opportunity will be available to clients of the Merrill, Bank of America Private Bank, and Merrill Edge platforms. The new asset class is intended to be offered in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-is-a-cryptocurrency-etf\">ETFs<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Starting January 5, 2026, the bank&#8217;s product lineup will include the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF (BITB), Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund from Fidelity (FBTC), Bitcoin Mini Trust from Grayscale (BTC), and iShares Bitcoin Trust from BlackRock (IBIT).<\/p>\n<p>Previously, investors could not access cryptocurrencies as advisors were prohibited from recommending such instruments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;This update reflects the growing client demand for access to digital assets,&#8221; added BoA&#8217;s head of investment solutions, Nancy Fahmi.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/banking\/largest-banks-in-the-us\/\">Forbes<\/a>, Bank of America is the second-largest bank in the U.S. with consolidated assets of approximately $2.67 trillion and more than 3,600 branches.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/img-8cabbe61925af8f9-11086515751695634.webp\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-270992\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Forbes.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Earlier, on December 2, Vanguard Group, the world&#8217;s second-largest asset management company, <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/vanguard-to-grant-clients-access-to-bitcoin-etfs\">opened<\/a> access to trading ETFs and mutual funds based on cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the U.S., advises institutional clients to allocate 1% to 4% of their portfolios to digital assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Bank of America advises clients to allocate 1-4% of portfolios to digital assets.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2027,1229,26],"class_list":["post-91693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bank-of-america","tag-banks-and-fintech","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"124","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Bank of America advises clients to allocate 1-4% of portfolios to digital assets.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693","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=91693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91695,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91693\/revisions\/91695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}