VanEck, known as the first U.S. investment manager to bet on gold before it broke from the gold standard, produced a report pitched at institutional investors arguing Bitcoin has "Monetary value" and can improve portfolio upside.
Released Wednesday by the New York-based firm, "The Investment Case for Bitcoin" outlines an exhaustive list of reasons why Bitcoin deserves a place in institutional portfolios.
Bitcoin proponents will recognize many of VanEck's theses, asserting that BTC has the potential to become "Digital gold." The firm also highlights Bitcoin's "Scarcity-driven" growth, its non-correlation with traditional assets, network transfer value, and impressive historical performance.
VanEck's findings may carry particular weight with institutional investors in light of the firm's success as an early gold bull, manifested today by its roughly $40 billion under management spread between 57 ETFs.VanEck, an early gold bull.
According to CEO Jan van Eck, his father saw great success after selling 80 percent of the firm's stock positions to launch the United States' first gold equity fund-a highly unorthodox move in 1968, given that at the time gold's price was fixed to $35 per ounce to serve as a peg for the U.S. Dollar under the gold standard.
Due to his father's foresight, Jan van Eck said VanEck's flagship gold fund became one of the best-performing funds of the day.
Van Eck seems to think the opportunity lies in Bitcoin this time around.
"Even now we're looking at digital assets and Bitcoin, and I said that gold was kind of the Bitcoin of its time-when Dad started the gold fund, people thought he was nuts. And so I think that's a useful analogy both ways, just like most people think that Bitcoin's kind of crazy."
With its latest report it would seem the firm's conviction on Bitcoin has only strengthened since these comments despite having repeatedly withdrawn proposals to launch a Bitcoin ETF. VanEck suggested the number-one crypto by market capitalization is in many respects superior to gold, namely its security, divisibility, portability, and transactability.
This is coming from a fund whose origins are in the precious metal, further affirming Bitcoin's potential.
VanEck: Bitcoin improves portfolio upside, potential as "digital gold"
gepubliceerd op Oct 11, 2019
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