The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB) has invested around $164 million in Bitcoin spot ETFs, including BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and Grayscale’s GBTC. A positive sign that could encourage other major institutions to follow suit ?
Wisconsin allocates over $160 million in Bitcoin Spot ETFs
Institutionalization progresses: The State of Wisconsin Investment Board (SWIB), the independent governmental entity responsible for managing retirement and public funds investments for the State of Wisconsin (USA), has revealed an investment of approximately $164 million in Bitcoin spot ETFs.
And not just any ETFs: the iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), the ETF from the giant BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, as well as Grayscale’s GBTC. The investment manager has respectively invested $99.1 million and $63.6 million in each of these ETFs.
SWIB disclosed this information when publishing its 13F report, mandatory for all investment managers if their total holdings exceed $100 million.
Eric Balchunas, an ETF specialist at Bloomberg Intelligence, described the situation as surprising given that, typically, such behemoths wait at least a year after an ETF’s launch to position themselves.
As Eric Balchunas points out, we can expect other similar entities to follow SWIB’s lead, which currently manages over $156 billion in assets. Earlier, the banking group BNP Paribas also declared an investment in BlackRock’s IBIT, but more modestly, with $41,684.
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At the end of last month, BNY Mellon, the oldest bank in the United States, also indicated that it had purchased shares of BlackRock’s spot Bitcoin ETF as well as Grayscale’s.
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