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  • Iconic Insider — 2020 Wrap-up and 2021 Crypto Market Outlook

    By Patrick Lowry, CEO, Iconic Holding Welcome to 2021 everyone! I hope you and yours had a happy and healthy holiday season! After a short break, we are back with the Iconic Insider to share with you some insights on the crypto markets as well as take a look at all things Iconic. To say the end…

  • How Effective are Common Investment Strategies with Bitcoin?

    To gain a deeper understanding of how effective common investment strategies are when applied to Bitcoin, Deutsche Digital Assets commissioned an empirical research report. The report was written by Philipp Rosenbach and Robert Richter, a research fellow at Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. Research partners included Enigma Securities and BTC-Echo. The “How effective are common investment…

  • Iconic Insider – November 2020

    By Patrick Lowry, CEO, Iconic Holding Between the time I draft this month’s Iconic Insider (Wednesday the 25th) and this issue date, Bitcoin may have hit a new all-time high! How exciting is that? The crypto industry hasn’t been this exciting since late 2017. The hype, the intrigue, the promise of a decentralized financial future feels eerily…

  • Debunking 9 Bitcoin Myths

    By Patrick Lowry, CEO, Iconic Holding In the past week I have had a few dozen personal contacts, mostly friends or drinking buddies, reach out to me to ask about Bitcoin. They want to know what it is, how and where they can buy it, and I even had one ask me “what does the $15K, $16K…

  • The Role of Correlations in Portfolio Theory

    One of the basic principles of portfolio theory is diversification. Diversification, which aims to minimize risk – measured by standard deviation – without reducing the expected return. Read on to learn more about the role of correlations in portfolio theory and crypto asset investing.  By Patrick Lowry, CEO of Deutsche Digital Assets The Role of Correlations…

  • Iconic Insider – October 2020

    The Iconic Insider is back this month after a short break in September! You will have to forgive me, but with my birthday on Oct. 1 and being away on vacation with family, I opted to take a bit of a break. We’re now back in full swing, so without further ado, let’s dive into…

  • Becoming Blockchain Educated in 4 Simple Ways

    Many people hear the word ‘blockchain’ and think of it as nothing more than a buzzword. Most have heard of it, but significantly less have an idea about what blockchain is. Misuse of the word also adds to the confusion, with some start-ups unduly adding the word ‘blockchain’ into their company mission statement and to…

  • The Impact of Crypto Currencies on the Sharpe Ratio of Traditional Investment Models

    Deutsche Digital Assets commissioned an empirical study analyzing the impact a minor crypto asset allocation would have had on the risk-adjusted ROI of various portfolio types. The study concluded that all portfolio types benefited greatly, resulting in the portfolio’s Sharpe Ratio roughly doubling for all portfolio strategies with a mere 1%, rebalanced monthly, allocation to…

  • Using Blockchain Because They Care about an Equalizing Economy

    CryptoScout by Eleanor Haas   Celsius Network is a mobile app that functions like a crypto bank — receives crypto deposits, pays interest on crypto and makes loans collateralized by crypto. It became profitable in less than two years, an admirable achievement. But there’s more. Celsius set out to speed crypto adoption and then, by promising always…

  • Why Financial Institutions should be Educated about Cryptocurrencies

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