MSCI retains Strategy in indices, keeps door open for other bitcoin treasuries

The determination allows Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) to support its presumption successful the benchmark equity indices, portion besides keeping the doorway unfastened for different bitcoin treasury companies that conscionable requirements.

Shares of Strategy roseate 5.5% connected Wednesday pursuing the news.

Market participants antecedently expressed interest that an exclusion would trigger forced selling by passive scale funds. JPMorgan analysts estimated that Strategy could look astir $2.8 cardinal successful outflows if MSCI removed the banal from its equity indices. The analysts projected different $8.8 cardinal successful imaginable selling unit if different scale providers adopted akin measures.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan countered these fears starring up to the determination successful a December 3 report. Hougan wrote that the interaction of a imaginable exclusion was apt baked successful and argued determination is “no plausible near-term mechanics that would force” Strategy to merchantability its bitcoin.

Strategy disclosed a currency reserve of $2.19 cardinal arsenic of December 21. This superior provides a buffer against volatility oregon unexpected operational needs.

MSCI stated it would not instrumentality the connection to exclude integer plus treasury companies astatine this time, but the scale supplier acknowledged feedback from organization investors who noted that immoderate of these firms grounds characteristics akin to concern funds. Current scale rules mostly exclude entities with superior activities that are investment-oriented alternatively than operational.

“MSCI intends to unfastened a broader consultation connected the attraction of non-operating companies generally. This broader reappraisal is intended to guarantee consistency and continued alignment with the wide objectives of the MSCI Indexes, which question to measurement the show of operating companies and exclude entities whose superior activities are investment-oriented successful nature,” the announcement reads.

The enactment intends to unfastened a broader consultation regarding the attraction of non-operating companies. This reappraisal aims to separate betwixt concern entities and companies that clasp non-operating assets arsenic portion of halfway operations. MSCI noted that assessing eligibility for these types of entities whitethorn necessitate further criteria based connected fiscal statements.

Securities identified connected MSCI’s preliminary database of companies with integer assets comprising 50% oregon much of full assets volition spot nary changes to their existent treatment, and the scale supplier volition not instrumentality increases to the fig of shares oregon inclusion factors for these securities.

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