Digital Assets
A Portfolio Perspective

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

Henrique Schneider (Author)

9781009500630, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 19 December 2024

80 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm, 0.27 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Business strategy [KJC]