Global Advisors Bitcoin Fund Set for Channel Islands Securities Exchange Listing

Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited, a bitcoin asset manager and the guarantor of XBT's Bitcoin Tracker One and Bitcoin Tracker EUR, has announced new custodians and extended trading powers for its flagship fund, Global Advisors Bitcoin Investment Fund PLC (GABI), detailed in a new prospectus.

Co-founder and CIO Daniel Masters says that the new developments pave the way for the GABI to list on the Channel Islands Securities Exchange as soon as this November.

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The bitcoin custodians for the fund are Gemini Trust Company and itBit, both New York State-regulated bitcoin custodians. In addition to meeting the capitalization, reserve, compliance, consumer protection and cyber-security requirements of the New York State Department of Financial Services, the custodians will provide secured IT storage systems and cold storage vault systems for GABI’s bitcoin holdings.

New Manger Powers

In addition, the fund has added new powers allowing the manager to engage in cross-market arbitrage, futures-to-cash arbitrage, coin lending and leverage. The manager also maintains an account with Interactive Brokers LLC in order to be able to supplement the portfolio with interests in certain non-bitcoin commodity futures contracts such as oil, metals and currency pairs, with the aim of protecting and where possible enhancing returns by creating pair-trading and hedging opportunities. No more than 25% of the NAV (Net Asset Value) will be allocated to non-bitcoin based commodities.

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Mr. Masters says that the new powers could potentially allow the manager to add 6-10% in alpha return generation alongside the strong beta growth of bitcoin.