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Guggenheim Registers Fund That May Seek Exposure to Crypto

The Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund could invest in bitcoin derivatives among other assets.

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Guggenheim Investments registered a new fund, the Guggenheim Active Allocation Fund, that might seek investment exposure to cryptocurrencies, notably bitcoin, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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  • The fund, expected to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker "GUG," will follow an asset-allocation strategy and a relative value-based investment strategy, and may seek exposure to cryptocurrencies, especially bitcoin.
  • Exposure would likely be through derivatives, such as futures, or through other vehicles that invest in crypto.
  • Guggenheim noted the volatile nature of cryptocurrencies, saying that "it is a highly speculative asset."
  • The fund will hold a varying proportion of cryptocurrency, and may hold none at all, the filing said.
  • In November, Guggenheim filed to allow its Macro Opportunities Fund to gain exposure to bitcoin.

See also: Guggenheim CIO Says Bitcoin Could Eventually Climb to $600,000

Sheldon Reback

Sheldon Reback is CoinDesk editorial's Regional Head of Europe. Before joining the company, he spent 26 years as an editor at Bloomberg News, where he worked on beats as diverse as stock markets and the retail industry as well as covering the dot-com bubble of 2000-2002. He managed the Bloomberg Terminal's main news page and also worked on a global project to produce short, chart-based stories across the newsroom. He previously worked as a journalist for a number of technology magazines in Hong Kong. Sheldon has a degree in industrial chemistry and an MBA. He owns ether and bitcoin below CoinDesk's notifiable limit.

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