EP 915 Has Cryptocurrency Really Arrived as an Investment Option?

Bitcoin had been a bit player as people designed their financial portfolios.  Investors would ask ‘is this a scam and am I chasing the latest shiny object?’  But today it seems as if cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology that undergirds it is getting newfound respect.  The second Trump Administration has passed The Genius Act and pronounced openly its support of digital currency (and the Trump family has profited from it to what’s reported as $2.9 billion).  So how should we, as individual investors, take stock of the growing options available in cryptocurrency purchasing and its inclusion in standard issue mutual funds and ETF’s?  While some may not want to be left behind if it is the next big thing, others might take a more cautious approach.  In this podcast, I ask Vijay Marolia, a seasoned money manager and the Chief Investment Officer of Regal Point Capital, to walk us through this new world and explain if we can believe what is very hard to see–digital currency.

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