The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, has made a compelling case for Bitcoin. The asset manager asserted that the flagship crypto shares a similar risk profile to the magnificent seven stocks and recommended that investors allocate up to 2% to BTC. BlackRock Makes Compelling Case For Bitcoin Forbes reported about a recent research report by BlackRock, which made a case for why investors should look to invest in the flagship crypto. The report, written by the firm’s analysts, stated that Bitcoin offers a risk profile similar to that of the Magnificent Seven firms (Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Nvidia, Meta, Google, and Microsoft). In line with this, these analysts determined that a 1% to 2% allocation to Bitcoin brings about a similar risk profile to these stocks. Meanwhile, the asset manager highlighted the correlation between BTC and these traditional assets but suggested that there might be a divergence soon enough. BlackRock claimed that this will happen because of factors such as the global fragmentation of the financial system, growing geopolitical tensions, a lack of confidence in the financial system, and growing deficits. Despite the strong case for BTC, companies like Microsoft are still uncertain about its potential. Microsoft shareholders recently voted against the Bitcoin proposal, which could have allowed the tech giant to adopt Bitcoin on its balance sheet. Meanwhile, the world’s largest asset manager hinted that the Bitcoin price may find it harder to record the kind of gains to which it has become accustomed as time passes. According to BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of ETF and Index products, Samara Cohen, “The return characteristics are likely to change significantly once we reach a target state where potentially the portfolio allocation is much more tactical like gold and is used for hedging with a very different set of characteristics.” The post Just In: BlackRock Compares Bitcoin To ‘Magnificent 7’, Recommends 2% Allocation To BTC appeared first on CoinGape .
