Retirement News

Wisconsin, one of the first US states offering Bitcoin exposure to its retirees, previously held over 6 million shares in BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF.

Letitia James has rallied Congress to support stopping US retirement funds from investing in crypto or crypto ETFs, which she claimed have “no intrinsic value.”

The accounts allow for buying and selling Bitcoin, Ether, and Litecoin under a 1% spread fee.

Senator Tommy Tuberville introduced the Financial Freedom Act in 2022 and 2023. Both times, the legislation failed to get out of committee.

The legislation also requires state pension funds to evaluate investing in crypto exchange-traded funds, and covers the right to self-custody and crypto mining.

California has the largest investment in Strategy stock with more than $150 million held in state retirement funds, says Bitcoin analyst Julian Fahrer.

Australia has a superannuation system requiring employers to allocate a portion of an employee’s earnings to a retirement account.

1971 Capital chief investment officer Brian Russ says Ethereum is undervalued and that Bitcoin, gold and silver are in a long bull market.

Pension funds often feature smaller alternative asset allocations and deep liquidity to mitigate risk, Allie Itami told Coinpectra.

Cartwright reported that an “unnamed scheme” based in the UK had made a 3% allocation of Bitcoin into its pension fund.

The lawsuit, initially filed by IRA in June 2022, alleged that Gemini misrepresented its security protections, resulting in an exploit that removed $36 million in crypto.

Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a retirement investment product by traditional investors, thanks to the approval of spot Bitcoin ETFs.

“Bitcoin now has a place at the table alongside gold, farmland and other alternative assets”— something unthinkable five years ago.

Satoshi Action Fund CEO Dennis Porter said even adding a small amount of Bitcoin ETF exposure could “DRAMATICALLY” de-risk an asset portfolio.

The rise in positive sentiment was skewed heavily by those aged 55 and above, where Bitcoin sentiment increased by 100%.