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Institutional investors view increased digital asset investment as inevitable

Thursday, August 29, 2024

B. G., Opalesque Geneva:

A recent report claims that digital assets look set to become an inevitable staple in institutional portfolios in the future, what with rising investments, increasingly mature blockchain technology and digital security infrastructure, ongoing efforts to achieve global regulatory clarity, and digital innovations.

"Digital assets are disrupting the financial industry and institutional investors are looking to get a slice of the growing pie," says the report, just released by OKX, a crypto exchange and Web3 technology company. OKX commissioned the research in Q2-2024 to Economist Impact, a research and events company.

This report echoes last year's report from EY, which found that institutions believed in the long-term value of blockchain and crypto/digital assets, with a special interest in tokenised assets, and that allocation to digital assets was expected to increase. EY later found that investors were interested in allocating 7% to 9% of their full portfolio to tokenized assets (particularly real estate and private equity) by 2027.

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