Jeff Dorman

Jeff Dorman

Jeff Dorman, a CoinDesk columnist, is chief investment officer at Arca where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. He has more than 17 years of trading and asset management experience at firms including Merrill Lynch and Citadel Securities.

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What I Learned Managing a Crypto Fund for Five Years
Jeff Dorman, chief investment officer at Arca, says crypto funds still need to find a balance between adopting professional Wall Street practices and taking advantage of crypt...
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Macro Is Back to Moving the Digital Asset Markets
Extra-crypto factors retake center stage as digital assets thrive amid a banking crisis, policy response, and credibility loss for the Fed and Treasury.
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Parsing 3 Types of Risk in Digital Assets
In digital assets, high yields are ubiquitous, but it’s not always clear what risks are actually taken to generate these yields, says our columnist.
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Fundamental Investing Is Alive and Well in Crypto
Ironically, digital assets might be one of the best asset classes for true fundamental investment analysis, says our columnist.
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‘You’re Starting to Democratize Access’: Arca’s Jeff Dorman on Crypto’s Impact on Organizational Structure and Other Big Trends to Look for in 2021
A leading crypto investor on the year ahead for bitcoin, NFTs, India and DeFi community tokens. Your host is Ben Schiller.
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What This Digital Asset Investment Firm Missed and Capitalized On in 2020
Arca's CIO on DeFi's big year, bitcoin's ascent to “mainstream global investment” and the promise of digitizing the live sports experience.
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How Activist Investors Can Help the Digital Assets Industry Mature
Often demonized for acting self-interestedly, activist investors can bring much needed focus to struggling organizations. In crypto, too.
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Amazon Prime Membership Should Have Been a Tokenized Asset
Tokenization can distribute investment gains more fairly, says our columnist. Just think if Amazon had been a tokenized by its users rather than run for shareholders.
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If Crypto Is Anything Like Fixed-Income, It's Going to Need a Fatter Textbook
Expect digital assets investing to mirror fixed income investing and become more specialized and complex over time, says our columnist.
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What I Learned the First Time I Lost a Million Dollars
It doesn't take long to learn how to trade, but it takes a lifetime to learn how to manage risk, says Jeff Dorman, CIO at Arca.
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