Morgan Stanley enters bitcoin ETF race with market-leading low fee
Morgan Stanley aims to capture market share by pricing its spot bitcoin ETF at 0.14%, below rivals, leveraging its 16,000 advisors managing $6.2 trillion in assets.
- On Friday, Morgan Stanley filed an amended S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission , proposing a 0.14% management fee for its Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust .
- Larger funds like BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust currently charge 25 basis points, while Grayscale's Bitcoin Mini Trust ETF holds the market's lowest fee at 0.15% expense ratio.
- Morgan Stanley oversees roughly 16,000 financial advisors managing $6.2 trillion in client assets, allowing advisers to shift client holdings between spot Bitcoin ETFs with a single trade to minimize costs.
- The New York Stock Exchange issued a listing notice for MSBT, signaling the product could begin trading quickly if approved and positioning it as the first spot Bitcoin ETF issued directly by a major U.S. bank.
- Lower-Cost products typically attract inflows while higher-fee funds see assets drift out, as illustrated by Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust , which fell to about $10 billion from $29 billion at its January 2024 launch.
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