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2021-05-19

Cause it’s a bet... they’re already “too big” with “great” results in 2020. In order to perform in 2021, riskier bets is required to outperform 2020..

Why Cathie Wood’s ARKK Is Still Betting on Coinbase

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HH浩
2021-05-19
HH浩
Yup, aptly describe... they are betting
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2021-05-19
schsch
hi
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In their place, there’s more interest in so-called “value” investments, such as equity in companies that are already generating profits.That has led to deep losses and varying degrees of embarrassment for investors who’ve made highly forward-looking bets. The tech-focused NASDAQ index has seenbig volatilityand is currently flat against its mid-January level. High-profile professional growth investors likeChamath Palihapitiya, just months ago a relentless and celebrated champion of a kind of less-transparent IPO known as a SPAC, have taken both financial and reputational hits.David Z. Morris is CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist.A lot of attention has been focused on Ark Invest, which manages exchange-traded funds investing in things like fintech, genomics, and space exploration. 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That’s particularly bold because Coinbase could be described as a growth investment squared: its own growth deeply dependent on demand for assets that are, in turn, highly speculative themselves.I assume Wood’s belief in her bets is sincere, but it’s also just good optics for a growth fund. Halting buys on Coinbase or other bets as they go down would be an implicit admission that previous buys at higher prices were a mistake. Buying an asset that’s slumping short-term is a strong signal of long-term belief.Wood’s consistency, along with her track record, appear to have been fairly effective in helping investors keep the faith even in the face of short-term losses. It’s inevitable some will reflexively sell a ticker that drops 30% in four months, but according to Seeking Alpha, ARKK only saw$1 billion in capital outflows, or around 2% of the fund’s total assets, over the past week.That’s far from amazing, and at that rate it could add up quickly, but it’s also far from a worst-case scenario. 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