https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/17/blackrock-has-started-to-dabble-in-bitcoin-says-rick-rieder.html BlackRock’s Rick Rieder says the world’s largest asset manager has ‘started to dabble’ in bitcoin PUBLISHED WED, FEB 17 20211:09 PM ESTUPDATED WED, FEB 17 20212:25 PM EST Kevin Stankiewicz@KEVIN_STANK BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has “started to dabble” in bitcoin, according to Rick Rieder. “I wouldn’t put a number on the percentage allocation one should have, depends on what the rest of your portfolio looks like,” said BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income. BlackRock’s Rick Rieder on bitcoin: We’ve started to dabble in it BlackRock’s Rick Rieder told CNBC on Wednesday the world’s largest asset manager has begun entering the bitcoin space. The remarks from Rieder, who is BlackRock’s chief investment officer of global fixed income, came on the same day bitcoin broke above $51,000 for the first time. “Today the volatility of it is extraordinary, but listen, people are looking for storehouses of value,” Rieder said on “Squawk Box.” “People are looking for places that could appreciate under the assumption that inflation moves higher and that debts are building, so we’ve started to dabble a bit into it.” In January, BlackRock added bitcoin futures as an potential investment for two of its funds, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The funds are BlackRock Strategic Income Opportunities and BlackRock Global Allocation Fund. A number of other financial institutions, such as BNY Mellon and Mastercard, have made entrances into the crypto space in recent days. BNY Mellon, the nation’s oldest bank, will launch a digital assets unit later this year, while Mastercard intends to support certain cryptocurrencies on its formal network. Electric-vehicle maker Tesla also announced last week it bought $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin using cash on its balance sheet and intends to begin accepting the digital coin as payment for its products. The price of bitcoin has risen more than 70% this year, adding to a major rally that began in the fall. “My sense is the technology has evolved and the regulation has evolved to the point where a number of people find it should be part of the portfolio, so that’s what’s driving the price up,” Rieder said. Despite bitcoin’s growing respectability as an asset class, Rieder said Wednesday that how much exposure an investor should have “depends on what the rest of your portfolio looks like.” “We’re holding a lot more cash than we’ve held historically,” he said. “It’s because duration doesn’t work, interest rates don’t work as a hedge and so diversifying into other assets makes some sense. Holding some portion of what you hold in cash in things like crypto seems to make some sense to me, but I wouldn’t espouse a certain allocation or target holding.” New York-based BlackRock had $8.68 trillion of assets under management at the end of the fourth quarter. Rieder has spoken positively about the potential for bitcoin before, telling CNBC in November he believes it could “take the place of gold to a large extent.” He added, “I think digital currency and the receptivity — particularly millennials’ receptivity — of technology and cryptocurrency is real.”
A couple of metrics, bitcoin is about to surpass $1T market cap and at another 50% increase in bitcoin price, it will surpass the market cap of Silver It's quite an interesting time in bitcoin's lifecycle as a digital investment asset
Bitcoin is lacking circulation I understand that 40% of Bitcoin has been hoarded never circulated In this market who would ever sell or try to buy something Once people start to buy cars with Bitcorn big supplies will dump the market
I wonder what his meaning of dabble is. I guess that's what I'd be saying if I was late to the party. "Yeah man I'm just dabbling a little bit with this price that's over 2000% right now, nothing more!"
I think a solid 1% allocation would be good for Blackrock, conservative, but hey, 5% would be good, too, bring them up to the level of Paul Tudor Jones What are we looking at, $70-350B, not bad, not bad....
As of right now, BitFinex printed 2 billions Tethers over last few weeks, and 80 percent of Bitcoin transactions are in tethers. Let them dobble. remember all those AAA MBS securities issued by all reputable banks, everyone ignored the obvious. We all know how it ended.