澳洲退休基金提供者 AMP Ltd. 已投資 2,700 萬澳元（1,720 萬美元）比特幣期貨

這一數字約佔該公司管理資產 570 億澳元的 0.05%。

Australian superannuation fund provider AMP Ltd. (AMP.AX) has invested A$27 million ($17.2 million) in bitcoin futures, a spokesperson for AMP told CIO.

澳洲退休基金提供商 AMP Ltd. (AMP.AX) 的發言人告訴 CIO，該公司已向比特幣期貨投資了 2,700 萬澳元（1,720 萬美元）。

The figure amounts to about 0.05% of the firm’s A$57 billion in assets under management.

這一數字約佔該公司管理資產 570 億澳元的 0.05%。

“Following testing and careful consideration by our investment team and committee, we included a small and risk-controlled position in digital assets through our Dynamic Asset Allocation program in May,” said Anna Shelley, AMP’s CIO, in a statement.

AMP 資訊長Anna Shelley 在聲明中表示：「經過我們的投資團隊和委員會的測試和仔細考慮，我們在5 月透過動態資產配置計畫納入了數位資產的小規模且風險可控的頭寸。 」

AMP Super manages the retirement investments of more than 1 million beneficiaries across Australia and New Zealand.

AMP Super 管理澳洲和紐西蘭超過 100 萬受益人的退休投資。

“The exposure, which currently represents around 0.05% of our total superannuation assets under management, recognizes the structural changes in the industry over the past year, including the launch of exchange-traded funds by leading international investment managers,” Shelley said in the statement.

雪萊在聲明中表示：「目前，該風險敞口約占我們管理的退休金總資產的0.05%，它認識到了過去一年該行業的結構性變化，包括領先的國際投資管理公司推出的交易所交易基金。

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In a LinkedIn post, Steve Flegg, a senior portfolio manager at AMP, said bitcoin has had a “barnstorming year” and added that “we generally thought that even though crypto is risky, new and not yet fully proven, that it had become too big, and its potential was too great, to continue to ignore.”

AMP 高級投資組合經理史蒂夫·弗萊格(Steve Flegg) 在LinkedIn 上發表的一篇文章中表示，比特幣經歷了“巡迴演講的一年”，並補充道，“我們普遍認為，儘管加密貨幣具有風險、新穎且尚未得到充分證明，但它已經變得太大，而且它的潛力太大，不能繼續忽視。

AMP is not the first institutional fund manager to make a cryptocurrency allocation. The State of Wisconsin Investment Board disclosed purchasing $160 million in bitcoin ETFs, also in May. Other pension funds, such as the Michigan Retirement System and the Jersey City Employees’ Retirement System, have also made or announced plans to make bitcoin allocations.

AMP 並不是第一家進行加密貨幣配置的機構基金經理人。同樣在 5 月份，威斯康辛州投資委員會披露購買了 1.6 億美元的比特幣 ETF。其他退休基金，例如密西根州退休系統和澤西城員工退休系統，也制定或宣布了進行比特幣分配的計劃。

The price of the digital asset price has rallied to more than $100,000 in recent weeks, with investors expecting the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump to be friendly to cryptocurrency. Trump has named several individuals who are expected to think favorably about digital assets as members of his incoming administration, including Paul Atkins as chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

最近幾週，數位資產價格已上漲至 10 萬美元以上，投資者預計當選總統川普即將上任的政府將對加密貨幣持友好態度。川普任命了幾位預計對數位資產持積極態度的人士作為即將上任的政府成員，其中包括擔任美國證券交易委員會主席的保羅·阿特金斯。

Bitcoin’s volatility means the asset is unlikely to become a staple of institutional allocator portfolios, but some funds could find niche opportunities. One pension fund in the U.K. allocated 3% of its portfolio to bitcoin.

比特幣的波動性意味著該資產不太可能成為機構配置者投資組合的主要組成部分，但一些基金可能會找到利基機會。英國的一家退休基金將其投資組合的 3% 配置為比特幣。

“While our super members have benefited from the exposure, we fully appreciate the risk and volatility characteristics of this emerging asset class and will continue to carefully manage our holding, which is a fractional component of a highly diversified asset mix,” Shelley said in the statement.

雪萊在聲明中表示：「雖然我們的超級會員從風險敞口中受益，但我們充分認識到這一新興資產類別的風險和波動性特徵，並將繼續謹慎管理我們的持股，這是高度多元化資產組合的一小部分。

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