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$400bn Wealth Manager Neuberger Berman Green-Lights Bitcoin Investments

In brief Neuberger Berman’s Commodity Strategy Fund is worth $164 million. The company says that up to 5% of its Commodities fund can now be invested in Bitcoin futures and ETFs. Neuberger Berman is not the first asset management firm to take an interest in crypto. New York asset management company Neuberger Berman, which controls over $402 billion in private wealth, has earmarked up to 5% of its $164 million Commodity Strategy Fund for investment in Bitcoin products, such as Bitcoin futures and Canadian Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds. In a regulatory filing

How profitable is Ethereum in the current market

The recent 34.4% rally Bitcoin achieved stabilized the market after almost a month of a consolidated downtrend and the rally also reflected on Ethereum. When it comes to altcoins it is assumed they follow Bitcoin’s lead thus at the moment they should be rising as well. However, while Ethereum did follow BTC and jumped in value, at the moment it seems to be hitting consolidation again. Which way is ETH headed? Ethereum back into consolidation After registering a 28.8% rise in the past week, on July 27, ETH started showing

Institutional investors — the future of crypto is in their hands. Or is it not?

Institutional investors are believed to drive the cryptocurrency market’s adoption and growth. Their involvement promises to make crypto widely recognized and accepted as a truly global currency. Bitcoin is supposed to gradually become an alternative to gold and skyrocket to unprecedented crypto prices.  But is this really how institutional investors work? In which direction are they actually driving the crypto market — and, after all, who are they? In this article, we will bring you the latest examples of huge whales’ interest in crypto, discover the reasons for that, and

Flare Network Review: Smart Contract Network For XRP

As the third largest cryptocurrency most people familiar with the space have heard about Ripple and they understand that it is a global payment and foreign exchange network that was designed to replace the outdated SWIFT banking network. And while it works great for that specific use case, otherwise it has shown limited usefulness in other functions.That might all be fixed however as the Flare Network has been created with the goal of improving the utility of XRP tokens by creating a network with smart contract capability for the XRP

November 2020: A Month of All Time Highs

November 2020 has been a record-smashing month for crypto. From coin derivatives, to flat-out Bitcoin (BTC) price, the roller coaster keeps climbing up. With power behind Bitcoin like never before, the next few months look exciting. All-Time Higher and higher So the golden price of $20,000 for 1 BTC never happened, but $19,725 was not half bad. Cryptocurrencies are having another year to remember, and November was perhaps that most exciting month yet. According to Coingecko’s monthly report, November saw plenty of highs. The crypto market cap reached $554 billion.