Vanguard Goes Big on Crypto, Thanks to Index Boom It Unleashed

July 14, 2025, 3:11 PM UTC

Bitcoin is not “appropriate” for long-term investors. Also, digital assets are more a speculation and less an investment. And they’re an “immature asset class” with little history and “no inherent economic value” that can wreak “havoc” on portfolios.

Vanguard Group Inc. executives, channeling the logic of the venerable Jack Bogle, have made their opinions on crypto clear. Yet thanks to the cold logic of index investing, the $10 trillion money-management giant is now the biggest backer of Strategy, the software firm that famously reinvented itself as a proxy for Bitcoin and became a poster child for the industry’s ...

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