The State of Michigan Retirement System reported investments in a spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, or ETF, supplied by ARK 21Shares.
In a June 30 submitting with america Securities and Alternate Fee, Michigan’s state pension fund disclosed holding 110,000 shares of the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin (BTC) ETF below the ticker ARKB. The approximate worth of the shares on the time of submitting was roughly $6.6 million — a small share of the fund’s billions of {dollars} in property.
The submitting instructed that Michigan was the third US state to discover allocating part of its pension fund to crypto by exchange-traded funds since Bitcoin ETFs had been authorised in January. In Might, the State of Wisconsin Funding Board reported a $164 million investment in spot Bitcoin ETFs supplied by Grayscale and BlackRock. On July 25, Jersey Metropolis Mayor Steven Fulop hinted at a 2% investment in Bitcoin ETFs by the town’s pension fund.
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