More than 50 percent of Asian investors have been found to possess digital assets in their portfolio holdings
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Research by Accenture revealed that 52 percent of affluent Asian investors held some form of digital assets during the first quarter of 2022.
Accenture published its research on June 6, which included that digital assets such as cryptos, crypto funds, and stablecoins made up 7 percent of the portfolios of surveyed investors on an average. This figure makes digital assets the fifth-largest asset class for investors in Asia.
The amount allocated by investors to crypto-assets was more than their allocations to foreign currencies, collectibles, and commodities. For some investors, the amount invested in cryptos was either at par or more than they had invested in private equity, venture capital, and hedge funds.
Accenture defines an affluent investor as anyone who manages investable assets ranging from $100,000 to $1 million. The survey was conducted across China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Singapore, Thailand and Hong Kong with over 3,200 clients. Compared to their peers in other countries, investors from Thailand and Indonesia held the largest percentage of digital assets in their holdings.
Accenture’s research indicates that half of the Asian investors already held crypto assets in their portfolio in Q1 2022, and a further 21 percent are expected to invest in them by the end of the year. This means that as many as 73 percent of wealthy Asian investors would possibly hold a digital asset in their portfolio by the end of 2022.