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UK fund manager Ruffer: we are in the “foothills” of institutional adoption of bitcoin
Ruffer Investment Company, the British fund manager which recently revealed it had bet £550m on bitcoin, has published more details about the headline-grabbing move. In a review covering the six months to December 31, 2020, Ruffer said it has a history of using “unconventional protections” and that it views bitcoin in that same vein during a prolonged period of low interest rates. “We think we are relatively early to this, at the foothills of a long trend of institutional adoption and financialisation of bitcoin,” the company added. The Guernsey-based Ruffer disclosed its bitcoin exposure in a regulatory ... (full story)