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Jefferies’ Wood Urges Banks to Embrace Blockchain, Add More Bitcoin Exposure
The Jefferies strategist is “fundamentally bullish” on crypto and added another 5% exposure to his current bitcoin allocation recommendation.
Banks should focus on blockchain technology and investors should increase their bitcoin holdings while trimming gold exposure, according to Jefferies Global Head of Equity Strategy Christopher Wood.
- “This concept of how [blockchain] has begun to eat conventional finance is why all banks should be focused on the technology to see how to try and profit from it rather than to wait and be disrupted by it,” Wood said in a note on Thursday.
- The analyst also noted that if blockchain technology disrupts the conventional finance sector by eliminating the need for intermediaries, it can also potentially trigger the end of the “dollar paper standard.”
- Wood said he will be adding another 5% to his bitcoin exposure, bringing it to 10%, while cutting 5% exposure to gold in his global, long-only asset allocation portfolio recommendation for his U.S.-dollar-based pension funds.
- His portfolio recommendation currently has 40% gold, 30% Asia (excludingJapan) equities, 20% unhedged gold mining stocks and 10% bitcoin exposure.
- Wood is not putting ethereum in the fund portfolio, however, because he doesn’t think it is a “store of value” asset. However, he expects the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value to outperform bitcoin in the coming months.
Read More: Jefferies’ Wood Cuts Gold Exposure in Favor of New Position in Bitcoin
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Aoyon Ashraf
Aoyon Ashraf is CoinDesk's managing editor for Breaking News. He spent almost a decade at Bloomberg covering equities, commodities and tech. Prior to that, he spent several years on the sellside, financing small-cap companies. Aoyon graduated from University of Toronto with a degree in mining engineering. He holds ETH and BTC, as well as ALGO, ADA, SOL, OP and some other altcoins which are below CoinDesk's disclosure threshold of $1,000.
Will Canny
Will Canny is an experienced market reporter with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. He's now covering the crypto beat as a finance reporter at CoinDesk. He owns more than $1,000 of SOL.
