{"id":61965,"date":"2025-06-25T09:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T08:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/?p=61965"},"modified":"2025-06-25T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:53:40","slug":"nickel-digital-institutional-investors-and-wealth-managers-expanding-crypto-holdings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/nickel-digital-institutional-investors-and-wealth-managers-expanding-crypto-holdings\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Digital : Institutional investors and wealth managers expanding crypto holdings"},"content":{"rendered":"
Institutional investors and wealth managers plan to further expand digital asset investments this year building on increases in the past year, according to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management<\/strong> (Nickel), Europe\u2019s leading digital assets hedge fund manager founded by alumni of Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.<\/h5>\n
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Anatoly Crachilov, CEO and Founding Partner at Nickel Digital<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Almost all believe long term investment opportunities in crypto are attractive and pension funds are seen as the investor group most likely to dramatically increase investment<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More <\/strong>than 9 out of 10 expect to have 2% or more of total assets in crypto within 3 years<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 in 10 predict Bitcoin could hit $500,000 within two years and 83% expect $500,000 within two to five years<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study with organisations invested in the sector shows professional investors are convinced of the positive long-term outlook for the sector and confident about the prospects for Bitcoin and Ethereum with 1 in 10 believing Bitcoin could hit the $500,000 price landmark within 2 years.<\/p>\n

Nearly 9 out of 10 (88%) questioned say they will increase their level of investment in the sector this year building on the 67% who said they increased investment in the sector last year.<\/p>\n

Nickel\u2019s research with institutional investors and wealth managers in the US, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates who collectively manage around $1.1 trillion in assets shows they expect major investor groups to follow suit.<\/p>\n

Around 70% predict pension funds will dramatically increase investment in the sector over the next 2 years while 57% believe wealth managers will dramatically increase investment and 40% say the same about family offices. The table below shows almost none expect major investor groups to cut investment levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Investor group<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage increasing investment in digital assets dramatically over next two years<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage increasing investment in digital assets slightly over next two years<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage keeping investment in digital assets the same over next two years<\/strong><\/td>\nPercentage decreasing \/ unsure about investment in digital assets over next two years<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pension funds<\/strong><\/td>\n70%<\/td>\n18%<\/td>\n12%<\/td>\nZero<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wealth managers<\/strong><\/td>\n57%<\/td>\n31%<\/td>\n12%<\/td>\nZero<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Family offices<\/strong><\/td>\n40%<\/td>\n42%<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hedge funds<\/strong><\/td>\n35%<\/td>\n46%<\/td>\n18%<\/td>\n1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sovereign Wealth funds<\/strong><\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n72%<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\nZero<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Almost all (98%) institutional investors and wealth managers questioned believe investment opportunities in the sector are attractive on a five-year view while 96% say they are attractive on a 12-month view. Currently around two out of five (43%) have 2% or more of their assets allocated to digital assets but within three years 92% believe they will have 2% or more in digital assets.<\/p>\n

They are positive about the outlook for the major cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum. All questioned believe Bitcoin will hit $500,000 with 50% believing it will happen within two to three years and 34% within three to five years.<\/p>\n

Just 1 in 20 (5%) believe Bitcoin will fall from its current level of around $100,000 by the end of the year with 59% forecasting it will end the year between $100,000 and $125,00 while 36% believe it will exceed $125,000.<\/p>\n

Almost all (98%) believe the evolution of Ethereum ETFs will be positive for the currency\u2019s price with 25% saying it will be very positive. Around 93% expect the price to rise from its current level with 37% predicting it could end the year at more than $5,000.<\/p>\n

Anatoly Crachilov, CEO and Founding Partner at Nickel Digital<\/span>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur latest survey shows that investors are increasingly bullish on digital assets across both the near term and the five-year horizon. Bitcoin reaching $500,000 is no longer seen as an outrageous, far-fetched idea. Institutional investors carefully\u2014but with growing conviction\u2014regard this as a plausible scenario within their strategic investment horizons.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s particularly encouraging is that this anticipated growth is not driven by hype, but by a measured and deliberate integration of digital assets into long-term portfolio strategies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: ETFWorld.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Institutional investors and wealth managers plan to further expand digital asset investments this year building on increases in the past year, according to new global research by London-based Nickel Digital Asset Management (Nickel), Europe\u2019s leading digital assets hedge fund manager founded by alumni of Bankers Trust, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":61516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"telegram_tosend":false,"telegram_tosend_message":"","telegram_tosend_target":0,"footnotes":"","_wpscp_schedule_draft_date":"","_wpscp_schedule_republish_date":"","_wpscppro_advance_schedule":false,"_wpscppro_advance_schedule_date":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":null,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"default","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":null,"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[393],"tags":[512],"class_list":["post-61965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-nickel-digital-asset-management"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61966,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61965\/revisions\/61966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etfworld.com\/co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}