Digital assets: what strategy for institutional investors?

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jean-Marie Mognetti is Co-Founder, President and CEO of CoinShares, a digital asset manager he co-founded in 2013 and has led to become Europe's largest digital asset manager by ETP market share. CoinShares is the world's fourth-largest digital asset ETP manager, holding the number one position in Europe with approximately 34% market share. The firm launched the world's first Bitcoin ETP in 2015 and has built a suite of regulated investment products spanning ETPs, active strategies, and on-chain asset management. Mognetti's background is rooted in quantitative finance and traditional capital markets.
Under his leadership, CoinShares has operated without venture capital funding since its 2014 launch, growing instead from existing revenues. The firm has concentrated on asset management as its core activity, including a crypto ETP business, proprietary trading — which has accounted for close to 50% of revenues — and a hedge fund solutions business. In 2014, CoinShares launched a regulated private fund on Bitcoin, the Global Advisor Bitcoin Investment Fund, which was subsequently closed in 2017. Mognetti has described the firm's strategy as deliberately focused on containing expansion to what revenue growth supports. CoinShares is publicly listed on Nasdaq Stockholm under the ticker CS and on the OTCQX under the ticker CNSRF, and is regulated in Jersey, France, and the United States.








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