Bitcoin in BlackRock's Eyes: A Diversified Safe haven Investment Tool Different from Traditional Assets
After successfully launching a Bitcoin spot ETF, BlackRock recently released a detailed report outlining the unique position of Bitcoin among major asset classes.
The current market value of Bitcoin exceeds $1 trillion, and BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF launched earlier this year quickly accumulated $21 billion in managed assets due to strong market interest, making it one of the most successful ETFs in history.
In BlackRock's latest white paper, the institution explains why Bitcoin can become a "unique risk diversification tool" and why many investors find it difficult to compare it to "traditional assets" when analyzing Bitcoin. The report points out that the correlation between Bitcoin and US stocks or US dollar interest rates is often short-lived.
The uniqueness of Bitcoin makes it unsuitable for the definition of traditional financial frameworks. Although Bitcoin has had short-term fluctuations in conjunction with stocks, especially during periods of significant changes in US dollar real interest rates, its long-term correlation with stocks and bonds is low, and its historical returns are much higher than other major asset classes
In addition, BlackRock emphasized a key point when analyzing the performance of Bitcoin and the difficulty of predicting its price:
The correlation between Bitcoin and macro factors that affect most traditional asset classes is extremely low
This Wall Street giant points out that although Bitcoin remains a 'high-risk' asset class, it has outperformed all other major asset classes in seven out of the past decade. But at the same time, in the other three years, Bitcoin's performance was the worst. BlackRock explained in the report that:
The fluctuations in the price of Bitcoin partially reflect the evolving prospects of its widespread adoption as a global currency alternative over time,
Due to its apparent decoupling from global macroeconomic factors, Bitcoin can serve as a safe haven for some in geopolitical tensions. The report also points out that Bitcoin can provide protection in the event that the US federal deficit may lead to a weakening of the US dollar.
However, BlackRock emphasizes that Bitcoin still belongs to high-risk assets, but its source of risk is different from traditional investment assets, so the traditional definition framework of "risk assets" and "safe haven assets" does not apply to Bitcoin. Finally, BlackRock concludes:
"As the global investment community tries to cope with the growing geopolitical tensions, concerns about the US debt and deficit situation, and the growing global political instability, Bitcoin may be seen as an increasingly unique diversified investment tool to deal with some financial, monetary and geopolitical risk factors faced by investors, which may face other problems in the portfolio."
(责任编辑:财富观察)
-
汽车分时租赁的本质是资产管理,如何通过较高的运营效率来获得更大收入,以及如何降低车辆获取成本,是其运营中的关键问题。...[详细]
-
诸如在2016年的魏则西事件中,知乎平台就爆发出了巨大的社会影响力。...[详细]
-
虽然O2O已被视为巨大陷阱,张旭豪却认为,在O2O领域,很多高频、刚需的应用场景未来都会被颠覆。...[详细]
-
二是成功鸡汤式学习,常见于各种成功学课程,并且被众多企业家追捧。...[详细]
-
后来呢,虽然老板本质是好人,但很不幸遇到了全世界著名的投资银行,天天带着他参观国际各种各样企业,在07年金融危机前成功鼓动他在最高点进行跨国并购。...[详细]
-
Coinbase 出手打击勒索者,悬赏 2000 万美元获取信息
“这时候我才意识到,原来他压根就没有想真的采访我。...[详细]
-
我很感恩这家工厂几年来对我的无条件的支持和信任,以及我臭不要脸的拖欠着货款而他们从不催我还。...[详细]
-
这一句句让人驻足的文案,均来自网易云音乐的乐评。...[详细]
-
直到我们父母这一辈,潜意识里都认为找个稳定的国企、事业单位,或者考个公务员,踏踏实实过一辈子,才是正事...[详细]
-
如果这种B2B做不了,那就退而求其次,至少让你的上游或者下游有一头是中小企业。...[详细]