{"id":58789,"date":"2025-11-17T05:01:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58789"},"modified":"2025-11-17T05:01:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T05:01:32","slug":"harvard-university-increased-its-bitcoin-ibit-stake-by-257-in-q3-as-good-a-validation-as-an-etf-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=58789","title":{"rendered":"Harvard University Increased Its Bitcoin IBIT Stake By 257% In Q3: &#8216;As Good A Validation As An ETF Can Get&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Harvard University significantly increased its stake in the <strong>iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"IBIT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/IBIT\">IBIT<\/a>), according to the latest 13F filing released on Friday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Harvard\u2019s IBIT A \u2018Good Validation\u2019 For ETFs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Harvard Management Company<\/strong>, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University that manages its endowment, pension assets, and other financial assets, reported holding 6,813,612 shares of IBIT as of Sept. 30, a 257% jump from the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p>IBIT holdings made up 21% of Harvard\u2019s investment portfolio, making it the fifth-biggest investment after<strong> Microsoft Corp.<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MSFT\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSFT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MSFT\">MSFT<\/a>) and <strong>Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"AMZN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AMZN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/AMZN\">AMZN<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The stake was worth $442.88 million based on IBIT\u2019s price of $65 on Sept. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg analyst <strong>Eric Balchunas <\/strong>noted that it\u2019s \u201crare\u201d for an endowment, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/11\/48890909\/harvard-university-increased-its-bitcoin-ibit-stake-by-257-in-q3-as-good-a-validation-as-an?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Harvard\" university increased its bitcoin ibit stake by in q3: good a validation as an etf can get>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard University significantly increased its stake in the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (NASDAQ:IBIT), according to the latest 13F filing released on Friday. Harvard\u2019s IBIT A \u2018Good Validation\u2019 For ETFs Harvard Management Company, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University that manages its endowment, pension assets, and other financial assets, reported holding 6,813,612 shares of IBIT as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-58789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}