{"id":281887,"date":"2021-01-27T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/?p=281887"},"modified":"2021-08-01T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T20:40:34","slug":"rothschild-ramps-up-bitcoin-purchase-now-holds-1m-in-btc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/rothschild-ramps-up-bitcoin-purchase-now-holds-1m-in-btc","title":{"rendered":"Rothschild Ramps Up Bitcoin Purchase, Now Holds $1M in BTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cryptocurrencies have gained significant awareness from various quarters, and institutions appear ready to guzzle more of the leading cryptocurrency.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The latest firm to grow its bitcoin portfolio is institutional investment manager Rothschild Investment Company.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Rothschild Commits to Bitcoin Full-Time<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a recent <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/0001020918\/000102091821000002\/xslForm13F_X01\/inftable.xml\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">filing<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Chicago-based financial institution confirmed that it had increased its Bitcoin exposure. The firm explained that it purchased 30,454 shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust, worth $975,000. This also marks another turn in its years-long relationship with leading asset manager Grayscale Investments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purchase marks a significant increase in Rothschild\u2019s Bitcoin portfolio, which a source <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacroScope17\/status\/1353721719442333703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1353721719442333703%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcointelegraph.com%2Fnews%2Frothschild-investment-corporation-increases-stake-in-gbtc-as-institutional-adoption-grows\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">notes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> contains 24,500 shares of the Investment Trust as of October.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BTC institutional watch: <\/p>\n<p>In a filing this morning with the SEC, Rothschild Investment Corporation, founded in 1908, reported owning 30,454 shares of GBTC.<\/p>\n<p>In a previous filing in October, the firm owned 24,500 shares. <\/p>\n<p>Link to filing:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AC3rvwgnwr\">https:\/\/t.co\/AC3rvwgnwr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; MacroScope (@MacroScope17) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MacroScope17\/status\/1353721719442333703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Considering that the latest purchase was made before December 31, Rothschild should have made a sizable gain on its investment with Bitcoin\u2019s significant rally to start the year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothschild\u2019s foray into Bitcoin began in 2017, when the company first purchased shares of Grayscale\u2019s Bitcoin fund. The company withdrew its interests shortly after, although it re-entered the market in 2019 as the industry was looking to bounce back from 2018\u2019s crypto winter. With institutional investment growing and the market in a relatively healthy position, the Chicago-based company appears poised to make a long-term commitment to the leading cryptocurrency.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Grayscale\u2019s Big Year<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rothschild\u2019s commitment is yet another testament to Grayscale\u2019s largesse, which has been growing sporadically over the past few months. The New York-based firm is unarguably a leading figure in crypto investments, managing over $20 billion in assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier this month, Grayscale noted in a filing that it posted record inflows for investments in Bitcoin and Ether in the fourth quarter of 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the filing showed, total investments into the company\u2019s products hit $3.3 billion in the quarter, translating to a staggering $250.7 million in weekly inflows. The number marked almost a 300 percent increase from Q3 2020, when the firm managed just $1.3 billion in total commitments.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As expected, the Bitcoin Investment Trust saw most of the company&#8217;s investments, with $217.1 million in average weekly inflows. The Ether Trust saw just $26.3 million in weekly investments,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grayscale added that 93 percent of its investments came from institutions &#8211; particularly asset managers. That number also saw a jump from Q3, when institutions made up 84 percent of total commitments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">All in all, investments in the New York firm\u2019s products totaled $5.7 billion &#8211; over four times the total inflows between 2013 and 2019<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fin-excerpt\">Cryptocurrencies have gained significant awareness from various quarters, and institutions appear ready to guzzle more of the leading cryptocurrency.\u00a0The latest firm to grow its bitcoin <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/insidebitcoins.com\/news\/rothschild-ramps-up-bitcoin-purchase-now-holds-1m-in-btc\" title=\"Rothschild Ramps Up Bitcoin Purchase, Now Holds $1M in BTC\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1770,"featured_media":280689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[734,8376,9416,11940],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v22.0) - 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