Webinar: Should wealth managers embrace digital assets? by Nickel Digital

Join us on Wednesday, March 10th at 12:00 GMT for an open exploration of why digital assets matter, where the market is going, what are the opportunities and risks

Featured Speakers

Anatoly Crachilov, Nickel Digital Asset Management
Benedikt Kukačka, Digital Assets, Bank Julius Baer

About This Webinar

Crypto Assets are a relatively new asset class very different from traditional asset classes but one that can add real value as an uncorrelated source of returns. Nickel Digital has just recently finished an analysis reflecting an impact of 1%-3% allocation to Bitcoin within a standard 60% equity / 40% fixed income portfolio. The findings (over a statistically significant 8-year period) indicate that such a controlled allocation not only boosts performance of the underlying portfolio, but also improves Sharpe ratio, thus resulting in a more efficient portfolio construction.

Background

2020 was the year Crypto went Institutional and with some of the large institutions investing into Crypto including Private Banks, Asset Managers and wealth managers, we will discuss the fundamental drivers behind this market to help wealth managers understand the role of digital assets in portfolio construction. We will examine where this market is going, what are the opportunities and associated risks.

What to Expect – Questions we will covering:

Q - Define our terms: How best to understand what Bitcoin is?

Q - Why does the market exist, what’s driving it and how?

Q - Why wealth management clients should consider digital assets and how can they be part of portfolios?

Q - What challenges exist for private bankers and wealth managers in handling this business, such as around custody, settlement, regulatory controls?

Q - Looking at the price of Bitcoin, are we top of a hill or a bottom of a mountain?

Webinar Objectives

To clearly define and explain Crypto Assets and achieve a clear understanding of this asset class
Discuss the benefits it can give a client portfolio, while assessing the risks and trying to reduce these
Offer a discussion forum for questions related to this asset class

Andrew Deane

Business Development Director for WealthBriefing

I am co-founder, Business Development Director at WealthBriefing and WealthBriefingAsia. I have over 30 years of experience in the finance sector with over 20 years of focus on private banking/wealth management. An extensive network of contacts to CEO level throughout the industry, especially in Asia/Middle East and a network of UHNW Families world-wide.

Benedikt Kukačka

Digital Assets, Bank Julius Baer

Benedikt is a digital enthusiast with 20+ years of experience in the financial industry. He is responsible for the digital assets offering at Julius Baer and played a vital role in the integration and roll out of this offering. Benedikt is also chairman of the working group Digital Assets of the Swiss Banking Association. Before joining Julius Baer in 2013, Benedikt held various positions, including Head Business Operations and Deputy Head ePrivate Banking at an Swiss Online Broker and was a Senior Product and Project Manager at Credit Suisse.

Anatoly Crachilov

Founding Partner & CEO, Nickel Digital

Anatoly is an investment professional with 25 years of experience in investment management and private equity. Prior to co-founding Nickel Digital in 2019, Anatoly was for seven years with investment management divisions of Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan dealing with asset allocation and portfolio construction.

Anatoly earned an MA degree in International Business from the University of National and World Economy in Sofia and Executive MBA degree from the University of Oxford in 2009. He returned to Oxford in 2018 to be among the first cohort of global investment professionals to complete Oxford Blockchain Strategy Programme, which ultimately led to co-founding of Nickel Digital.

Tom Burroughes

Group Editor at WealthBriefing

Tom Burroughes is group editor of ClearView Financial Media, publisher of WealthBriefing, WealthBriefingAsia and Family Wealth Report. Tom has worked at ClearView since 2008, reporting on news stories, interviewing industry leaders, writing features and comment pieces, and has spoken at conferences in London, Guernsey and Vienna, among other locations. He has discussed the industry’s issues on Reuters television and the BBC. Previously, Tom was wealth management editor of The Business, the weekly UK magazine run by the Telegraph Group, from 2007 to 2008. Before that, he was a correspondent in various roles at Reuters, the global newswire. Between 1994 and 2000, he was a reporter for Market News International, a New York-headquartered newswire.