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Originally Posted by 68style
That might be true, but Blackrock's portfolio is estimated to be worth $3,477,455,768,419. 3.5 Trillion $$$$.
So even just 1% of that is $34 billion.
That's a lot of BTC. 750,000+ bitcoins at the current price to be exact.
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Blackrock is an asset manager though. They don't own those BTC.
Institutions use Blackrock as a fiduciary to buy BTC.
For example, if Pension Group A has $100 in assets, they will go to Blackrock and ask them to buy 1% in BTC. So Blackrock will hold $1 in BTC for Pension Group A. All of the portfolio risk is with Pension Group A.
Blackrock just holds it for them.
You should also say Blackrocks Assets Under Management (AUM), not portfolio. When you say portfolio people may think that's their investment portfolio, it is not. That $3.5T figure is their AUM.
It's the same as if you went to TD Bank and opened up a trading account. You use TD Bank as a fiduciary to buy investments.