Jeff Dorman

Jeff Dorman, a CoinDesk columnist, is chief investment officer at Arca where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. He has more than 17 years of trading and asset management experience at firms including Merrill Lynch and Citadel Securities.

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Opinion

What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years

Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at Arca, says crypto funds still need to find a balance between adopting professional Wall Street practices and taking advantage of crypto’s unique opportunities.

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Opinion

Macro Is Back to Moving the Digital Asset Markets

Extra-crypto factors retake center stage as digital assets thrive amid a banking crisis, policy response, and credibility loss for the Fed and Treasury.

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Markets

Parsing 3 Types of Risk in Digital Assets

In digital assets, high yields are ubiquitous, but it’s not always clear what risks are actually taken to generate these yields, says our columnist.

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Policy

Fundamental Investing Is Alive and Well in Crypto

Ironically, digital assets might be one of the best asset classes for true fundamental investment analysis, says our columnist.

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Markets

What This Digital Asset Investment Firm Missed and Capitalized On in 2020

Arca's CIO on DeFi's big year, bitcoin's ascent to “mainstream global investment” and the promise of digitizing the live sports experience.

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Markets

How Activist Investors Can Help the Digital Assets Industry Mature

Often demonized for acting self-interestedly, activist investors can bring much needed focus to struggling organizations. In crypto, too.

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Markets

Amazon Prime Membership Should Have Been a Tokenized Asset

Tokenization can distribute investment gains more fairly, says our columnist. Just think if Amazon had been a tokenized by its users rather than run for shareholders.

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Finance

If Crypto Is Anything Like Fixed-Income, It's Going to Need a Fatter Textbook

Expect digital assets investing to mirror fixed income investing and become more specialized and complex over time, says our columnist.

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Markets

What I Learned the First Time I Lost a Million Dollars

It doesn't take long to learn how to trade, but it takes a lifetime to learn how to manage risk, says Jeff Dorman, CIO at Arca.

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