The HFR Blockchain Composite Index is comprised of funds sub-classified as either Cryptocurrency or Infrastructure. The fund managers focusing in Cryptocurrency utilize a variety of trading strategies to profit from exposure to Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital currencies. Managers focusing in Infrastructure invest in companies developing blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies which are fundamentally disintermediating payments, banking, market trading structure, Internet of Things (IoT), healthcare, remittances, supply chains, digital identity and more.
HFR Blockchain Indices - Index Descriptions
The HFR Blockchain Indices are a series of benchmarks designed to reflect the performance of fund managers investing in blockchain digital currency and distributed ledger technologies.
Investment Managers trade in cryptocurrency directly. The primary purpose of the strategy is to trade cryptocurrency, seeking profits by investing in or shorting bitcoin or other digital currencies. The overall investment thesis is to provide returns through an actively managed portfolio of cryptocurrency assets. Managers may use a variety of trading strategies that can be discretionary techniques or employ a variety of automated bitcoin trading algorithms to analyze the market, and then adjust their portfolios as necessary. These trading strategies include, but are not limited to, arbitrage, event-driven and momentum.