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Pensions and endowments are increasingly exploring incorporating digital assets into their portfolios, though only a handful have reached the point of pulling the trigger on new allocations to crypto-focused hedge funds, according to industry observers.
Various factors – including volatile public markets, a rosier regulatory picture and new cryptocurrency price peaks – are opening the door for institutions.
There is a lot more interest among pension funds and endowments this year as the Trump administration advocates for a friendlier environment for digital assets regulation and investing, according to Chris Rhine, head of liquid active strategies at Galaxy Digital, a crypto banking and trading platform.
Hedge fund managers are launching new funds at the slowest pace in more than decade as a choppy economic environment buffeted by the Trump administration’s evolving policies has left investors unnerved and has exacerbated what was already a difficult fundraising environment.
Only 88 new hedge funds came to market during the first quarter, the slowest quarter for launches since 2020, according to data from Preqin. Another 15 funds launched in April and May, putting the industry on pace to have fewer funds debut this year than the 618 that launched in the second quarter of 2020 at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins last week called for a “robust” economic analysis of SEC rules amid “ongoing changes in financial landscapes,” adding that previous agency leadership focused heavily on “regulatory expansion over meticulous economic analysis.”
Atkins, who was sworn in last month, said it was a “new day at the SEC” and crucial that the agency ensures “thorough and unbiased economic analysis is not being overshadowed by any driving desire to implement regulatory measures that impose unnecessary burdens on our markets.”
Atkins “may revisit the economic basis of already-adopted rules, slow or halt pending rulemakings that lack robust economic justification or use cost-benefit analysis to reframe existing proposals,” Cynthia Kelly, a managing director for compliance at STP Investments, said in an email.
Atkins is also expected to create a regulatory framework around crypto and tokenization, artificial intelligence, and the expansion of alternatives into the retail channel, she added.
Read more of what Cynthia and other subject matter experts had to say here.