Todd Groth

Todd Groth, CFA

Todd Groth was the Head of Index Research at CoinDesk Indices. He has over 10 years of experience involving systematic multi-asset risk premia and alternative investment strategies. Before joining CoinDesk Indices, Todd served as Head of Factor Insights at Premialab, an institutional fintech analytics company, and as a Managing Director at Risk Premium Investments (RPI), a systematic multi-asset asset manager. Before RPI, Todd was a Quantitative Portfolio Manager at Investcorp and began his finance career at PAAMCO, a fund of hedge funds, as a manager within the risk analytics group. Todd holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego, an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Financial Engineering from UCLA Anderson School of Management. Todd holds BTC and ETH above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.

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A Crypto Lesson From George Soros Amid Binance and Coinbase Accusations
Positioning and expectations explain why the Binance case drove prices down but markets rebounded after Coinbase.
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Seeing the Macro Forest for the Token Trees
Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices shares some thoughts on how macro analysis works in crypto.
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What ChatGPT Thinks About Digital Assets
Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices quizzes ChatGPT about crypto and then explores how that might factor into an investment opinion.
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First-Quarter Performance Recap: CoinDesk Market Index Up 58%, BTC Gains Amid Banking Crisis
Bitcoin posts its best quarterly performance in two years, and the CMI's Computing and Currency sectors see the most growth.
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Fan Tokens: A Bet on Your Favorite Soccer Team?
Does the performance of soccer team tokens align with on-the-pitch performance? Max Good, from CoinDesk Indices’ team, breaks down the match stats.
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Crypto Rails Should Bring Efficiency Gains to the $7T-a-Day TradFi FX Market
Todd Groth of CoinDesk Indices wades into one of traditional finance’s biggest numbers: $7 trillion.
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Bitcoin's 'Golden Cross' Explained
This much talked about technical indicator has value, yet doesn’t tell the whole story.
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Crypto Diversification Is Back in 2023
Crypto and other assets are going their own way in 2023, with the bitcoin/Nasdaq (QQQ) correlation down to levels last seen in 2021.
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Bitcoin's Hedge Potential
View BTC as protection from inept central banks (and, yes, a tool for speculation, too).
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