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Pension fund for Texas firefighters reportedly allocates $25M to Bitcoin and Ether
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The pension fund for firefighters in Houston has allocated part of its $4 billion portfolio towards crypto.
According to an Oct. 21 Bloomberg report, the Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund used the New York Digital Investment Group, or NYDIG, to execute the purchase of $25 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH). Public records through the Texas comptroller’s office show the pension fund held more than $4.1 billion in total net assets as of June 2020, meaning the group has allocated roughly 0.6% of its portfolio towards digital assets.
“We have been studying this as an asset class to add to our investment portfolio for quite some time,” said the fund’s chief investment officer Ajit Singh. “It became an asset class we could not
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