$11 trillion BlackRock recommends this much Bitcoin in your portfolio
At the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, BlackRock’s Head of Digital Assets, Robert Mitchnick, reaffirmed the asset management giant’s recommendation that wealth managers allocate 1–2% of client portfolios to Bitcoin, a guidance that originated from BlackRock’s internal model portfolios published in December 2024. For context, BlackRock isn’t a niche crypto fund. It’s the largest asset manager in the world, with more than $11 trillion in assets under management. So when it nudges financial advisers toward even a modest BTC allocation, the signal is hard to ignore. Mitchnick explained the rationale behind the allocation, noting it’s the product of years of research, not a reaction to short-term price action. “That was not a sudden reaction to any one thing. That was the result of multiple years of Analysis and research by that team, who runs those portfolios,” he said. The original December report highlighted Bitcoin’s potential to serve as a global mone...