The multinational financial services corporation based in
Boston, Fidelity Investments, has revealed the firm is allowing people
to add bitcoin into their 401(k) plan as long as the employer allows it.
According to Fidelity’s head of workplace retirement offerings, the
company has seen “growing interest from plan sponsors” that wanted to
add bitcoin to retirement plans.
Fidelity Is Giving Workers the Ability to Add Bitcoin to Their 401(k) Plan
Fidelity Investments,
the largest 401(k) plan provider in the United States, is now allowing
people to add bitcoin to their retirement accounts. According to a
report from the New York Times (NYT), Fidelity’s head of workplace
retirement offerings Dave Gray explained that the company was noticing
demand for adding digital assets to the firm’s 401(k) plans.
“We started to hear a growing interest from plan sponsors,
organically, as to how could Bitcoin or how could digital assets be
offered in a retirement plan,” Gray remarked. The financial services
company also noted that the digital assets account will be broadly
available by the second half of 2022.
The digital assets account will be managed like a traditional mutual
fund and employees can designate a percentage of bitcoin to their
workplace retirement offerings. According to the NYT report, the
percentage will be limited and the retirement account’s fee will be
between 0.75% to 0.90% of the plan owner’s percentage of assets.
For now, Fidelity will only allow an investment of 20%, but said the
allocation percentage could change in the future. Of course, employers
also have to approve the plan and allow employees to save part of their
401(k) in bitcoin, and employers will determine the percentage
threshold. According to the Boston-based financial institution, the
business intelligence firm Microstrategy has already signed up for
Fidelity’s bitcoin-infused 401(k) offering.
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