{ "id": 53640, "date": "2025-11-17T10:23:41", "date_gmt": "2025-11-17T03:23:41", "guid": { "rendered": "https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/harvard-university-triples-stake-in-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf-filing-shows\/" }, "modified": "2025-11-17T10:23:41", "modified_gmt": "2025-11-17T03:23:41", "slug": "harvard-university-triples-stake-in-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf-filing-shows", "status": "publish", "type": "post", "link": "https:\/\/hbbgroup.net\/en_us\/harvard-university-triples-stake-in-blackrocks-bitcoin-etf-filing-shows\/", "title": { "rendered": "Harvard University triples stake in BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF, filing shows" }, "content": { "rendered": "
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The Ivy League university held 6.8 million shares in BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin ETF as of Sept. 30, 2025, and has also boosted its exposure to gold. <\/p>\n

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Harvard University boosted its investment in BlackRock\u2019s Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) by over 250% in the third quarter after the Ivy League school first bought into the fund earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Harvard Management Company, the business that manages the university\u2019s $57 billion endowment fund, reported<\/a> in a regulatory filing on Friday that it held over 6.8 million shares in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) worth $442.8 million as of Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

The university disclosed in August<\/a> that it had a position IBIT for the first time, holding around 1.9 million shares then worth $116.6 million.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper rare\u201d for a university to buy ETF<\/h2>\n

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas said<\/a> on Friday that it is \u201csuper rare\/difficult to get an endowment to bite on an ETF.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s as good a validation as an ETF can get,\u201d he added, but noted Harvard\u2019s IBIT investment was \u201ca mere 1% of total endowment.\u201d<\/p>\n

IBIT<\/a> was Harvard\u2019s largest investment on its filing and was its \u201cbiggest position increase in Q3,\u201d now ranking it as the 16th-largest holder of the ETF, according to Balchunas.<\/p>\n

Source: <\/em>Eric Balchunas<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Balchunas said<\/a> in August after Harvard\u2019s initial IBIT buy<\/a> that endowments \u201care notably anti-ETF\u201d and the \u201chardest institution to hook\u201d when it comes to ETFs.<\/p>\n

Harvard increases gold, tech exposure<\/h2>\n

The remainder of Harvard\u2019s investments were primarily in major US technology companies, including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet, Google\u2019s parent company.<\/p>\n

Related: <\/strong><\/em>Crypto index ETFs will be the next wave of adoption \u2014 WisdomTree exec<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The university also bought a new $16.8 million position in the buy-now, pay-later fintech<\/a> Klarna and $59.1 million worth of shares in the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.<\/p>\n

Harvard also nearly doubled its exposure to gold, boosting its share ownership in the gold-backed ETF<\/a>, SPDR Gold Shares (GLD), to 661,391 shares worth $235.1 million, up from its 333,000 share holdings in August.<\/p>\n

SoSoValue shows<\/a> Bitcoin (BTC<\/a>) ETFs saw net outflows of $1.11 billion in the trading week ending on Friday, as the price of Bitcoin fell below $100,000.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin is now trading under $95,000 after falling to a low of $93,029 in the past 24 hours, which briefly erased the gains<\/a> it had made so far this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Magazine: <\/strong><\/em>Solana vs Ethereum ETFs, Facebook\u2019s influence on Bitwise \u2014 Hunter Horsley<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n