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Crypto breaks into the top five in strategies for new hedge funds

‘Crypto markets are inefficient, volatile and sentiment driven, and this usually leads to opportunities for alpha’

Investment in crypto is gaining interest in the wider financial sector, triggering exchanges to also develop and launch crypto trading products for institutional investors
Investment in crypto is gaining interest in the wider financial sector, triggering exchanges to also develop and launch crypto trading products for institutional investors Photo: Michael Nagle/Getty Images

Crypto has broken into the top 10 of overall hedge fund strategies, with nearly 3% of hedge funds now adopting crypto in their investments.

That's according to data from SigTech, a quantitative tech provider, which found that out of the 27,255 active hedge funds globally, 774 were employing a crypto investment strategy.

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