Volatility in Digital Assets and Why It Doesn’t Need to be a Hurdle to Enter the Space
Volatility in the prices of digital assets is a central concern of financial professionals. For some, it is the primary reason for not entering the space. Specifically, wealth managers, financial advisors, high net worth investors, and institutions are expressing a strong appetite for digital assets exposure, but desire a risk-managed approach that focuses on mitigating the inherent volatility and drawdowns common with the emerging asset class; this is what IDX seeks to provide.
- Why volatility in digital assets is most likely here to stay
- The Fed is exploring the idea of a US Digital Dollar. How might this affect digital asset prices?
- Is institutional adoption adding to volatility?
- Dipping the toe in the space: the options investors have to get access to Bitcoin, Ethereum and DeFi
- How might “infinite QE” add to volatility in the digital assets space?
Event Recording
Volatility in Digital Assets and Why It Doesn’t Need to be a Hurdle to Enter the Space
Speaker
Ben McMillan
- Title
- Chief Investment Officer @
- Company
- IDX Digital Assets
- Role
- Speaker
Ben McMillan is a principal and founder, and the Chief Investment Officer and Chief Technology Officer, of IDX Insights, LLC and IDX Digital Assets, LLC. He is also a founder and the portfolio manager of RG Liquid Alts, LP. Previously, he was the portfolio manager at Ramsey Quantitative Systems Inc. (RQSI) where he developed and managed the RQSI Small Cap Hedged Equity Mutual fund. Prior to that he served as co-portfolio manager (and co-creator) of the Van Eck Long/Short Equity Index mutual fund since July 2012. Prior to joining Van Eck Global, Mr. McMillan worked at Lyster Watson & Co. where he developed and launched the Lyster Watson Long/Short Equity Replication strategy in 2009. Additionally, between 2007 and 2012, Mr. McMillan served as a co-founder of the cloud-based 13F analytics platform, AlphaStratus, which was acquired by eVestment in 2012. Mr. McMillan holds an MSc in Econometrics from the London School of Economics as well as an MA and BA in Economics from Boston University. In the digital assets space, Ben began buying Bitcoin in 2011, and launched two Bitcoin nodes over the next few years. This past year, he co-created the first risk-managed digital assets indices alongside S&P Dow Jones.
About
IDX Digital Assets
IDX Digital Assets is a quantitative asset manager in the crypto and digital asset space. IDX has developed the world’s first suite of Risk Managed Digital Currency Indices Priced by S&P Dow Jones, and has recently launched the first Risk-Managed Digital Asset trusts, the IDX Risk-Managed Bitcoin Trust and the IDX Risk-Managed Ethereum Trust. IDX is also scheduled to launch the first ever risk-weighted DeFi index with S&P in August 2021.