{"id":46382,"date":"2021-07-20T13:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T10:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=46382"},"modified":"2025-09-01T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T13:08:01","slug":"poll-70-of-institutional-investors-plan-to-add-cryptocurrencies-to-their-portfolios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/poll-70-of-institutional-investors-plan-to-add-cryptocurrencies-to-their-portfolios\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: 70% of institutional investors plan to add cryptocurrencies to their portfolios"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Price volatility remains the main barrier to the adoption of cryptocurrencies by institutional investors, yet 70% of them expect to invest in crypto-industry projects in the future. This is according to the Fidelity Digital Assets (FDA) study, reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/most-institutional-investors-expect-buy-digital-assets-study-finds-2021-07-20\/\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From December 2020 to April 2021, Coalition Greenwich, commissioned by FDA, conducted a survey of 1,100 respondents. Among them were wealthy investors, family offices, hedge funds, financial advisers and <a href=\"https:\/\/ru.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%D0%AD%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%82\">endowments<\/a>. More than half of the respondents said they had invested money in digital assets.<\/p>\n<p>Around 90% of the investors who expressed interest in cryptocurrencies said that, within the next five years, innovative financial instruments would enter the portfolios of their companies or clients.<\/p>\n<p>They see direct purchases of cryptocurrencies as well as investments in industry bodies and other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Respondents stressed that price volatility of cryptocurrencies is the main barrier to attracting new investors to this market. Among other problems they cited the lack of fundamental data necessary to evaluate asset values and market manipulation.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Bloomberg, UBS CEO Ralph Hamers also noted the volatility of cryptocurrencies, saying they are still an \u201cunproven asset class.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00abWe feel that crypto itself is still an untested asset category,\u00bb says UBS CEO Ralph Hamers. He tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManusCranny?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ManusCranny<\/a> he doesn\u2019t have crypto FOMO <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WoyYpqfqiQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/WoyYpqfqiQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qIwAIejwx7\">pic.twitter.com\/qIwAIejwx7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bloomberg TV (@BloombergTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BloombergTV\/status\/1417397289656672267?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, FDA published a similar study. Then the share of respondents owning digital assets was noticeably lower \u2014 36%.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Fidelity Investments, in response to institutional demand <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/fidelity-digital-assets-to-expand-staff-amid-institutional-interest-in-cryptocurrency\">announced the expansion of the digital assets unit&#8217;s staff<\/a> by 70%.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that JPMorgan&#8217;s June survey showed that only <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/survey-a-third-of-institutional-investors-call-cryptocurrencies-rat-poison\">10% of institutional investment companies trade cryptocurrencies<\/a>. A third of respondents agreed with Warren Buffett&#8217;s statement that Bitcoin is \u201crat poison squared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Price volatility is the main barrier to the adoption of cryptocurrencies by institutional investors, but 70% expect to invest in crypto industry projects in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46383,"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":[1248,1156,167],"class_list":["post-46382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-fidelity-investments","tag-institutional-investors-and-whales","tag-research"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46384,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46382\/revisions\/46384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}