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Wall Street Breakfast

New bitcoin fund aims for institutions

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business, Investing, Business News, News

3.8950 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund launches this week. (0:15) Could tariffs really lower your taxes? (0:56) Goldman is optimistic on dividends. (4:00)    

Show Notes 
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0:00.0

Welcome to Seeking Alpha's Wall Street Lunch, our afternoon update on today's market action, news, and analysis.

0:09.7

Good afternoon. Today is Monday, April 28th, and I'm your host, Kim Khan. Our top story so far,

0:15.6

Coinbase Global's asset management arm will launch a Bitcoin Yield Fund on Thursday. The Coinbase Bitcoin Yield Fund will

0:22.3

take a conservative approach to meet growing institutional demand for Bitcoin yield, the company said.

0:27.4

The new fund seeks a 4-8% net return in Bitcoin per year over a market cycle with investors

0:32.7

subscribing and redeeming Bitcoin. Bitcoin, unlike traditional assets or state digital assets, such as Ether

0:38.7

and Solana, does not generate yield. Earlier Bitcoin yield funds generally require institutional allocators

0:44.4

to take on investment and operational risk. Rather than move assets out of storage, the Coinbase

0:49.8

Fund uses third-party custody integrations to trade, which the company says significantly reduces

0:55.0

counterparty risk.

0:56.5

In tariffs, latest, can revenue for trade levies lower taxes?

1:00.5

President Donald Trump says yes.

1:02.5

On Sunday, Trump posted, when tariffs cut in, many people's income taxes will be substantially

1:06.9

reduced, maybe even completely eliminated.

1:09.8

Focus will be on people making less than

1:11.5

$200,000 a year. UBS disagrees. Chief economist Paul Donovan writes today, trade tariffs cannot

1:18.0

replace income taxes, to suggest otherwise either raises questions of policy competence or

1:23.1

implies a deficit finance tax cut. Neither is likely to shore up waning faith in the safety of the U.S.

1:28.8

dollar. He added Trump's idea hints in an understanding that low-income households pay trade taxes.

1:35.0

Tax expert Andrew Loutts says,

1:37.0

Everyone, including the president, knows will need to collect significantly more in tariffs

1:40.9

to replace federal income taxes for the about 90% of Americans earning less than $200,000 annually.

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