Millennium Administration and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors disclosed a number of the largest spot Bitcoin ETF investments amongst conventional monetary corporations so far, in keeping with their 13F filings for the primary quarter.
Millennium invested a complete of $1.9 billion in spot Bitcoin ETFs, comprised of $844.2 million in BlackRock’s IBIT, $806.7 million in Constancy’s FBTC, $202 million in Grayscale’s GBTC, $45.0 million in Ark’s ARKB, and $44.7 million in Bitwise’s BITB.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors disclosed a $248.0 million funding in IBIT and a $231.8 million funding in FBTC, totaling $479 million.
Largest IBIT holders
Based on Fintel knowledge, the 2 funds maintain the biggest IBIT and FBTC investments, with Millenium first in every class and Schonfeld second. Millenium additionally ranks among the many 10 largest holders for every of the opposite spot Bitcoin ETF investments.
Along with the numerous dimension of every firm’s investments, the disclosure represents a significant hedge fund supervisor’s entry into Bitcoin ETFs.
Millenium had $69 billion in belongings beneath administration (AUM) on the finish of 2023, whereas Schonfeld had $13 billion in AUM.
Submitting deadline closes
Every firm’s disclosure comes on the final minute, as Could 15 marks the quarterly deadline for 13F filings. Quite a few different corporations, together with Aristeia Capital, Boothbay Fund Administration, and Pine Ridge, disclosed massive investments in IBIT and different funds earlier at this time.
In the meantime, Morgan Stanley disclosed an funding in GBTC, revealing itself as certainly one of a number of World Systemically Necessary Banks (G-SIBs) with spot Bitcoin ETF holdings.
Days earlier, Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan estimated that over 700 skilled firms would make investments almost $5 billion in complete by the Could 15 deadline. Nevertheless, he emphasised that retail funding is answerable for a big portion of spot Bitcoin ETF belongings.
All 10 obtainable spot Bitcoin ETFs have mixed belongings beneath administration of $53 billion and cumulative inflows of $12 billion.
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