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

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Wed, 16/12/2020 - 13:59
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.

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

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

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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.

Grayscale Investments fund has also been absorbing Bitcoin, Ethereum and other crypto assets on a massive scale. At the moment, the company holds $13 billion worth of Bitcoin and other crypto.

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