weekly-roundup

On 27th April 2022, I rang the bell at the SIX Exchange in Zurich to launch the 21Shares ByteTree BOLD ETP (BOLD SW). It was an unfortunate time as Bitcoin soon faced one scandal after another, and within weeks, BOLD had slumped below the world’s stockmarkets. BOLD ETP Versus

I recently visited Uzbekistan, located in central Asia. Since 2016, when the first post-Soviet Union President Islam Karimov died, the country has opened up to the world and is growing quickly under the new President Shavkat Mirziyoyev. They have embraced the market economy and will welcome an expected 7 million

Gold doesn’t get the credit that it deserves. Despite having a 5,000-year history in finance, it remains a controversial asset and widely misunderstood. Central banks hoard it because when things go wrong, there’s nothing better. The super-rich hoard it, admiring the diversification benefits and long-term inflation protection.

With another quarter behind us, it is a good time to show the results for the Whisky and Soda Portfolios that are published weekly in The Multi-Asset Investor letter. I have been running these for 8 years, having previously managed money at HSBC for 17 years beforehand. More than anything,

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It isn’t just ByteTree that has embraced investing in Bitcoin and Gold with our BOLD Index. On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of discussing this subject with two specialist fund managers in this field. They are both disciples of the Austrian School of Economics and see Bitcoin and Gold