Seeing both sides of the same coin: Wealth managers split on Bitcoin amid growing adoption and wild price swings

Debate rages over future of cryptocurrency

Mike Sheen
clock • 5 min read

A handful of UK wealth managers have begun to adopt Bitcoin as a viable asset within diversified investor funds, but others dismiss investment in the cryptocurrency as "speculative", high-risk and having no place in client portfolios.

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