MSCI | Crypto

Strategy is urging MSCI to retain MSTR in its indexes, despite raising its Bitcoin holdings to 650,000 BTC as it has lowered its 2025 targets. Michael Saylor’s Strategy is not giving up on efforts to keep its common A stock (MSTR) part of the MSCI indexes after the stock entered the MSCI World Index during the Bitcoin rally in 2024. Amid MSCI Global Standard Indexes holding consultations on whether to delete MSTR and other digital asset treasuries (DATs) from its indexes, Strategy’s Saylor said the company is communicating with the index provider about the issue, Reuters reported on Wednesday. “We’re engaging in that process,” the Strategy founder said, adding that he “was not sure” about the accuracy of JPMorgan’s reported estimations that a potential exclusion from the MSCI could trigger $2.8 billion of outflows. Read more

If the MSCI decides to exclude digital asset treasuries, index-tracking funds would need to sell, and that alone “creates meaningful pressure on the affected names.” Digital asset treasury companies could face “meaningful pressure” if the stock market index MSCI decides to exclude them in January, according to an analyst, who told Cointelegraph that this is likely. The MSCI Index announced in October that it was consulting with the investment community about whether to exclude Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital asset treasury companies (DATs) that have a balance sheet with more than 50% crypto assets.  Some of the feedback has been that DATs can “exhibit characteristics similar to investment funds, which are currently not eligible for index inclusion,” according to the MSCI.  Read more