Adopting Bitcoin 2024

Matthew Sigel is the Head of Digital Assets Research and Portfolio Manager at VanEck who are, among other things, managing the spot Bitcoin ETF with the ticker "HODL".

Christopher Wood joined Jefferies Ltd as Equity Strategist in May 2019 after being with CLSA since 2002. He has been ranked No. 1 Equity Strategist in the Asia Money polls between 2002-2004 and 2006-2022. In 2005 CLSA withdrew from the poll.

Mr Wood has been publishing since July 1996 his celebrated weekly Greed and Fear research newsletter which has a global readership among investors. Prior to joining CLSA, Mr Wood was ABN AMRO’s Asian Equity Strategist from Nov, 98. Before that he was Peregrine’s Asian Equity Strategist. Before joining Peregrine, Mr Wood was Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s Emerging Market Equity Strategist based in London for two years specializing in Russia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Prior to entering investment banking Mr Wood spent ten years as a financial journalist for The Economist, including working as the bureau chief in New York and Tokyo. During this time, he was the author of three acclaimed books. His most recent book, “The End of Japan Inc.: And How the New Japan Will Look”, was published in 1994 in the US, Japan and the UK. The book was the successor to his 1992 international bestseller, “The Bubble Economy : Japan’s Economic Collapse”, which was published in Japan, the US, Korea, Taiwan and the UK and predicted Japan’s financial meltdown and subsequent economic collapse. Mr Wood’s first book, “Boom and Bust : The Rise and Fall of World Financial Markets”, published in 1988, described the deflationary trend in the world economy. Prior to joining The Economist, Mr Wood worked for the Far Eastern Economic Review based in Hong Kong.