Institutional investors headed for a tipping point on crypto — Apollo Capital

cointelegraph.com:

Henrik Andersson, CIO of crypto asset fund manager Apollo Capital believes institutions may soon “flip” on their conservative stance towards crypto. 

Speaking to Cointelegraph, the Melbourne-based crypto fund manager said that while institutional interest in crypto has been slow in picking up, particularly in Australia, there are a lot of players that are waiting for the right moment to strike.

Andersson admitted that major institutional investors in Australia, particularly retirement funds (or superannuation funds) have yet to warm up to the digital asset space.

“From their point of view its still a lot of education going on. So it will still take some time, I believe,” he added.

Apollo Capital is a fund manager focused on providing family office and institutional investors access to crypto investment opportunities. One of its latest launched funds is the Apollo Capital Frontier Fund, which is focused on nonfungible token (NFT) infrastructure, decentralized finance (DeFi) and multi-chain infrastructure.

Asked what needs to happen for institutional sentiment to change, Andersson believes this will “flip” when big players start making more substantial moves in the space.

“No one wants to be the first into something like this. Because if you’re the first one and things go wrong, then there’s a career risk. That will flip at some point to the opposite,” explained Andersson.

In Australia, several large banking institutions such as ANZ, NAB and Commonwealth Bank (CBA) have already been making forays into the digital asset space.

“We’ve seen several of the major banks here in Australia, taking an interest in digital assets. So that’s really, really good to see,” he said.

CBA was notably the first major bank in the country to