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JCE Capital Management launches $100m crypto hedge fund

Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Laxman Pai, Opalesque Asia:

Denver-Based JCE Capital Management has announced the launch of its crypto-focused hedge fund JCE-CM2.

The crypto-asset hedge fund firm said in a press release that the fund is an actively managed portfolio of concentrated, high-conviction positions, focused on active management with medium-term time horizon.

According to the release, the investment objective of the fund is to achieve capital appreciation and maximize absolute returns by offering investors exposure to a broad range of Crypto-assets, whose value is secured by cryptography and other blockchain technologies.

It quoted Chris de Diego, JCE CM's Managing Partner saying that blockchain and crypto-assets are revolutionizing how business is being done because it offers new ways to accumulate, govern, store, and transfer value.

Chris added: "Blockchain and Crypto-currencies are the most recent innovation in 'money', since possibly the invention of double-entry accounting in the 1400's. Our charter is to capitalize on the transformative elements of this new monetary invention and provide investors exposure to this new asset class." Awareness of Crypto-assets as an alternative asset class has continued to grow, including currencies such as Bitcoin, Ether (the token of Ethereum), and others.

A recent market cap analysis done by RBC Capital Markets, and featured on Yahoo Financial, stated, "Longer term, we think Crypto-currencies are here to stay and will likely......................

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