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A CoinShares survey has found that half of UK wealth advisers lack visibility into the cryptocurrency holdings their clients carry outside of managed accounts — a structural blind spot that leaves a growing asset class effectively untracked in advisory relationships.
The same research found that many EU-based wealth management firms either restrict investments in digital assets outright or have no policy guidance on them at all.
The Visibility Gap The central finding is stark: half of UK advisers surveyed by CoinShares describe their clients' crypto as invisible to them. That framing — the advisers' own word, not the researcher's — matters.
It suggests not merely a data gap but an acknowledged failure of oversight, one that leaves advisers unable to account for how digital assets interact with the rest of a client's portfolio.
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