South Korea’s Public Pension Fund Invests $34 Millon in MicroStrategy

South Korea’s Nationwide Pension Service (NPS) has revealed investments in cryptocurrency-related corporations with a multi-million greenback buy of MicroStrategy inventory.

In accordance with a current submitting. South Korea’s nationwide pension fund acquired shares in MicroStrategy (MSTR), an organization identified for its substantial Bitcoin holdings. The NPS bought 24,500 shares of MicroStrategy within the second quarter of 2023, at a mean value of $1,377.48 per share.

This funding, totaling practically $34 million, preceded MicroStrategy’s 10-for-1 inventory break up in early August. Put up-split, the NPS now holds 245,000 shares, valued at roughly $32.32 million primarily based on MicroStrategy’s current closing value of $131.93.

The NPS’s investments lengthen past MicroStrategy. The pension fund additionally holds 229,807 shares of Coinbase (COIN), valued at over $45 million primarily based on the alternate’s current closing value of $197.12. The NPS started investing in Coinbase in 2023, buying 282,673 shares at a mean value of $70.5.

MicroStrategy chair Michael Saylor has repeatedly billed the corporate’s inventory as a means for traders to achieve oblique publicity to Bitcoin with out having to carry the digital asset instantly.

This week, a brand new ETF providing traders entry to leveraged positions in MicroStrategy inventory launched within the U.S.

The NPS fund’s crypto-related investments align with a wider development of institutional traders looking for publicity to the cryptocurrency market by way of publicly traded corporations.

Final month, Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop introduced that the second-largest metropolis in New Jersey is looking for to allocate a portion of its pension funds to identify Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). “The query on whether or not crypto/Bitcoin is right here to remain is basically over,” Fulop wrote in a Twitter put up, including that, “Crypto/Bitcoin received.”