Digital Assets - A Portfolio Perspective

From the perspective of an investor, digital assets are an alternative class of assets. They have several features that differentiate them from traditional investments. This makes them well-suited for a diversified portfolio. The question is how to accommodate them in such a portfolio, how to manage their potential and risk, and how to evaluate them. This short book explains how to include digital assets is a diversified portfolio. It focuses on their differentiating use cases, their idiosyncracies, and how they relate to other types of investment. This is a volume for practitioners and students in finance, asset management, or portfolio construction.

List of contents

1. Purpose; 2. Principles of digital assets; 3. Use cases in digital assets; 4. Risk and valuation of digital assets; 5. Digital assets in a portfolio; 6. Conclusion: a framework for investing in digital assets; Bibliography.

Summary

Digital or crypto assets, existing solely in electronic form, serve as the foundational elements for decentralization across various sectors, notably finance. Decentralization involves a peer-to-peer network validating transactions via digital protocols. The challenges are difficulty in achieving decentralization, security, and scalability.

Foreword

To know digital assets is to use them – this Element shows how.

Product details

• Authors: Henrique Schneider, Henrique (Nordakademie Schneider, Schneider Henrique
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781009437608
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0943760-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Elements in Business Strategy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Strategic Planning, Distributed databases, Currency / Foreign exchange, Distributed ledger technology / blockchain, Financial technology (fintech)