Investing

Brevan Howard Sees Outsized Returns From Digital Assets

  • Full potential of blockchain, crypto yet to be tapped: Sharma
  • Executive says it’s very important to get regulatory clarity

A person analyzes a chart displaying the price of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.

Photographer: Carolina Cabral/Bloomberg
Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

Brevan Howard Asset Management is predicting a potential boom in digital assets similar to what the internet has seen in the past couple of decades and is looking to make “disproportionate returns.”

Though there are a lot of challenges, blockchain and crypto are transformational technologies whose full potential has yet to be tapped, Gautam Sharma, chief executive officer of the digital investment unit of the hedge fund firm, said in Germany.