Over $740 Million In Bitcoin Held by Ruffer Asset Manager As It Dumps Gold

Wed, 12/16/2020 - 13:59

Ruffer asset management fund has confirmed that it holds a Bitcoin amount that exceeds $740 million after ditching some of its gold

Over $740 Million In Bitcoin Held by Ruffer Asset Manager As It Dumps Gold

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According to multiple sources, including Bloomberg and CoinDesk, U.K.-based investment fund Ruffer has diversified its assets by allocating some of its customers' funds into the flagship cryptocurrency: Bitcoin.

This amounts to £550 million, which is equal to 2.7 percent of the funds' total amount of assets in management.

To put this gargantuan amount of money into Bitcoin, Ruffer decided to part with some of its gold holdings.

Ruffer has been yet another top-tier financial institution that has recently chosen to make a bet on Bitcoin in the midst of a 2020 rich with USD printing initiated by the Federal Reserve to support the economy.

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The trend was started by MicroStrategy and Square, which decided to prevent their cash piles from turning into a melting ice cube.

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