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GoldenTree Adds Bitcoin to Its Balance Sheet: Report

The credit-focused firm is also considering hiring experts in cryptocurrency investments, the report said.

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GoldenTree Asset Management, a New York-based with $45 billion under management, has been adding an undisclosed amount of bitcoin to its balance sheet, according a report by The Street, which cited two unnamed sources.

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  • With the purchase, the credit-focused firm company has become the latest Wall Street firm to become involved in the largest cryptocurrency by market value.
  • GoldenTree, which is run by founder and Chief Investment Officer Steven Tananbaum, is considering hiring experts in cryptocurrency investments as it turns its attention to the industry, the report said.

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Kevin Reynolds

Kevin Reynolds is editor-in-chief at CoinDesk. Prior to joining the company in mid-2020, Reynolds spent 23 years at Bloomberg, where he won two CEO awards for moving the needle for the entire company and established himself as one of the world's leading experts in real-time financial news. In addition to having done almost every job in the newsroom, Reynolds built, scaled and ran products for every asset class, including First Word, a 250-person global news/analysis service for professional clients, as well as Bloomberg's Speed Desk and the training program that all Bloomberg News hires worldwide are required to take. He also turned around several other operations, including the company's flash headlines desk and was instrumental in the turnaround of Bloomberg's BGOV unit. He shares a patent for a content management system he helped design, is a Certified Scrum Master, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He owns bitcoin, ether, polygon and solana.

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