Strategies
Digital assets
Prepare for the potentially growing interest in digital assets with exclusive insights, resources, and an expanding lineup of investment offerings.1
More than 80% of institutional investors surveyed view digital assets as having a role in investment portfolios, and of those who would seek exposure, 87% show interest in investment products that hold digital assets.2 Fidelity has nearly a decade of research and development in blockchain technology and can help you meet client demand by focusing on key initiatives including:
Expanded cryptocurrency offering
Fidelty’s growing lineup of investment offerings can give your clients more options and flexibility.
Investment in blockchain
We believe Blockchain technology and digital assets are poised to play a larger role in the future of the industry, and we can help you and your clients focus on what lies ahead.
Digital assets ecosystem
Fidelity is helping advance the digital assets ecosystem through continual strategic investments—and can guide you in exploring opportunities others may miss.
Fidelity Investments® provides investment products through Fidelity Distributors Company LLC; clearing, custody, or other brokerage services through National Financial Services LLC or Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC; and institutional advisory services through Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC. None of these entities offer direct exposure, clearing or custody of digital assets.
Insights to help you position your firm for the growth of cryptocurrency
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A vision for digital assets. The experience to make it happen.
At our core, Fidelity is committed to innovation, which has helped drive growth during shifting market conditions and consumer preferences. With a firm-wide focus on digital assets, Fidelity is developing a blockchain ecosystem with the goal of becoming a holistic solutions provider.
*Fidelity Crypto® for Wealth Managers is a service of Fidelity Digital Assets℠. Accounts for custody and trading of digital assets are provided by Fidelity Digital Asset Services, LLC, a limited liability trust company chartered by the New York Department of Financial Services (NMLS ID 1773897).
**FBTC is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) and is not subject to regulation under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (the “CEA”). As a result, shareholders of FBTC do not have the protections associated with ownership of shares in an investment company registered under the 1940 Act or the protections afforded by the CEA.
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Explore investing’s new frontier with the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH) – offering advisors and their clients easy exposure to crypto.
This product is for investors with a high risk tolerance. It invests in a single asset, ether, which is highly volatile and can become illiquid at any time. Please see the additional digital assets disclosure below.
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Fidelity Charitable is the brand name for the Fidelity Investments® Charitable Gift Fund, an independent public charity with a donor-advised fund program. Fidelity Charitable is a registered service mark of FMR LLC, used by Fidelity Charitable under license.
Fidelity Digital AssetsSM is a subsidiary of Fidelity Investments® and operates as a separate business dedicated to digital assets.
Fidelity Digital Assets is a service mark of FMR LLC.
- This material may be distributed through the following Fidelity Investments® entities, none of whom offer direct exposure, clearing or custody of digital assets: Fidelity Distributors Company LLC; National Financial Services LLC or Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC (Member NYSE, SIPC); Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC; and FIAM LLC. These resources are meant to be educational in nature, and not to endorse or recommend any cryptocurrency or investment strategy. Digital assets are speculative, highly volatile, can become illiquid at any time, and are for investors with a high risk tolerance. Investors in digital assets could lose the entire value of their investment.
- Fidelity Digital AssetsSM 2022 Institutional Investor Digital Assets Study. The blind survey was executed in association with Coalition Greenwich on behalf of Fidelity Digital AssetsSM, the Fidelity Center for Applied TechnologySM, and Fidelity Consulting and Strategic Insights between January 2, 2022 and June 24, 2022. The survey included 1,052 institutional investors in the U.S. (410), Europe (359) and Asia (283), including financial advisors, family offices, digital and traditional hedge funds, high-net-worth investors, pensions and defined benefit plans, and endowments and foundations.
- Cerulli Associates, U.S. High-Net-Worth and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Markets 2018: Shifting Demographics of Private Wealth, November 2019.
FETH is not an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “1940 Act”) nor is it a commodity pool under the Commodity Exchange Act of 1936 (the “CEA”). As a result, shareholders of FETH do not have the protections associated with ownership of shares in a registered investment company nor are shareholders afforded the protections of investing in an CEA-regulated instrument or commodity pool.
Digital assets are highly volatile, and their market movements are very difficult to predict. Various market forces may impact their value including, but not limited to, supply and demand, investors’ faith and their willingness to purchase it using traditional currencies, investors’ expectations with respect to the rate of inflation, interest rates, currency exchange rates, an evolving legislative and regulatory environment in the U.S. and abroad, and other economic trends. Investors also face other risks, including significant and negative price swings, flash crashes, and fraud and cybersecurity risks. Digital assets may also be more susceptible to market manipulation than securities.
Digital assets are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) or protected by the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (“SIPC”).The performance of the Fund will not reflect the specific return an investor would realize if the investor actually purchased ether. Investors in the Fund will not have any rights that ether holders have and will not have the right to receive any redemption proceeds in ether.
Digital assets are speculative and highly volatile, can become illiquid at any time, and are for investors with a high risk tolerance. Investors in digital assets, including those who gain exposure to the price of digital assets through an exchange-traded product, could lose the entire value of their investment. Supply and demand changes rapidly and is affected by a variety
of factors, including regulation and general economic trends. Digital asset exchanges may suffer from operational issues, such as delayed execution. Digital asset exchanges have been closed due to fraud, failure, or security breaches. Assets that reside on an exchange that shuts down or suffers a breach may be lost. Cryptocurrencies are created, issued, transmitted, and stored according to protocols run by computers in the network. It is possible digital asset protocols have undiscovered flaws, which could result in the loss of some or all assets. Advancements in quantum computing could break cryptocurrency cryptographic rules. There may also be network-scale attacks against cryptocurrency protocols, which result in the loss
of some or all of assets.
Alternative investment strategies may not be suitable for all investors and are not intended to be a complete investment program for any investor. Some of the risks associated with alternative investments are: Alternative investments maybe relatively illiquid. It may be difficult to determine the current market value of the asset. There may be limited historical risk and return data. A high degree of investment analysis maybe required before buying. Costs of purchase and sale may be relatively high.
Fidelity Institutional Wealth Adviser LLC ("FIWA")® is a registered investment adviser and an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of FMR LLC.
The Fidelity Ethereum Fund material must be preceded or accompanied by a prospectus. Before investing you should carefully consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest.