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Canada’s Largest Pension Fund No Longer Mulling Crypto Investment: Reuters
7.12.2022
CPP Investment has nearly $400 billion in assets under management
Vitalik on Suspect Centralization, FTX’s ‘Absolute Fraud,’ Coinbase Confirms Bitcoin Holdings — Week in Review
27.11.2022
As the smoke starts to clear around the massive crater left by the FTX disaster, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has shared his thoughts on the ether community’s view of centralization. In related news, CME Group CEO Terry Duffy recalls in March when he called former FTX boss...
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Fund Writes Down Entire Investment in Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Citing ‘Potential Fraud’
19.11.2022
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), one of the largest pension plans in the world, is writing down its investment in the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. “Recent reports suggest potential fraud conducted at FTX which is deeply concerning for all parties,” the plan states. Major...
Pension Giant Ontario Teachers' Plans to Write Off All $95 Million Invested in Crypto Exchange FTX
18.11.2022
FTX investment represented less than 0.05% of Ontario Teachers' total net assets
Pension Fund-Backed Parataxis Digital Yield Fund Targets $500M in Assets in 2023
21.10.2022
The digital yield fund received investments from two Fairfax County, Va. pension funds earlier this year
Robert Kiyosaki Explains Why He Buys Bitcoin Citing Pension Funds and Inflation
9.10.2022
The famous author of the best-selling book Rich Dad Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, has explained why he buys bitcoin. Citing inflation, he detailed that pension funds are investing in cryptocurrency, adding that they know “fake” money, stocks, and bonds “are toast.” Robert...
Quebec Pension Fund loses almost entirety of its Celsius investment in less than ten months
17.8.2022
"For us, it is clear, when we look at all this, we arrived too soon in a sector which was in transition," says CEO Charles Émond
Canadian Pension Giant Caisse Writes Off $150M Bet on Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius
17.8.2022
Quebec-based Caisse said Wednesday it had acted "too soon" in entering the sector
USD 6.8B Pension Fund to Invest in Crypto Lending Market
4.8.2022
Indicating that some major financial players have not been scared away from cryptoassets by the ongoing market downturn, the Fairfax County Retirement Systems, a US pension fund with assets totaling USD 6.8bn, has unveiled it is looking to invest in crypto lending markets to ramp up...
Fairfax County Pension Fund Invests $70M in Crypto Yield Farming Funds: Report
4.8.2022
Virginia-based pension fund, The Fairfax County Retirement Systems, has invested $70 million evenly across two yield farming funds
Virginian county wants to put pension funds into DeFi yield farming
4.5.2022
The next few days will see a decision made, which if approved would be the first time pension fund money was used in decentralized finance
Fidelity Pension Plan Will Allow Employees to Invest in Bitcoin
26.4.2022
Fidelity Investments, the United States’ biggest provider of 401(k) pension plans, will let participants choose to keep money in bitcoin (BTC), but only if their employers let them.
401(k) plans are employer-sponsored defined-contribution pension accounts, and Fidelity, per 2020 figures...
FTX Raises $400 Million in Series C Fundraise, Firm Reaches $32 Billion Valuation
31.1.2022
Following the company’s subsidiary FTX US raising funds in its first Series A financing round, parent company FTX Trading Ltd. has announced it has secured $400 million in a Series C fundraise. The crypto company’s latest financing round brings the firm’s post-money valuation...
South African Finance Minister Seeks to Stop Pension Funds From Investing in Cryptocurrencies
1.11.2021
South African finance minister Enoch Godongwana has put forward proposals that bar pension funds from investing in cryptocurrencies, and has also set November 12 as the public comment deadline. Cryptocurrencies a Grey Area According to a report by Business Insider SA, Godongwana’s timeframe...
South Korean pension fund to invest in Bitcoin ETF: Report
26.10.2021
KTCU plans to invest in Bitcoin ETF products after consultation with domestic asset managers,” an exec reportedly said
FTX Raises $420 Million in Series B-1 — Crypto Exchange Commands $25 Billion Valuation
22.10.2021
The digital currency exchange FTX Trading Limited announced the firm has raised more than $420 million in a Series B-1 fundraise. The capital raise follows the crypto exchange’s financing round at the end of July when FTX raised $900 million. After the raise was announced on October 21,...
$2.2 Trillion Asset Manager Pimco Looking to Trade Cryptocurrencies, CIO Says
22.10.2021
Pimco, an asset manager with $2.2 trillion under management, is looking to start trading cryptocurrencies. “We’re trading from a relative value perspective,” the firm’s chief investment officer said. Pimco’s clients include central banks, sovereign wealth funds...
US Public Pension Fund for Firefighters Adds Bitcoin and Ether Worth $25 Million to Portfolio
22.10.2021
The $5.5 billion pension fund for the U.S. city of Houston’s firefighters has announced an investment in bitcoin and ether. “This investment marks the first announced investment in digital assets by a public pension plan in the U.S.” ‘A Watershed Moment for Bitcoin...
Pension fund for Texas firefighters reportedly allocates $25M to Bitcoin and Ether
21.10.2021
The fund is responsible for the benefits of more than 6,600 active and retired firefighters as well as surviving family members
Crypto and pension funds: Like oil and water, or maybe not?
8.10.2021
Pension funds, the most cautious of institutional investors, are now giving the booming crypto and blockchain sector a closer look