AFP Protección, a non-public pension and severance fund supervisor in Colombia, is getting ready to launch a fund with publicity to bitcoin.
The plan was confirmed by firm president Juan David Correa in an interview.
How entry will work
Participation can be provided by a customized advisory course of.
That course of will assess an investor’s danger profile.
Solely purchasers who meet the standards will have the ability to allocate a proportion of their portfolio to bitcoin.
A second main pension agency so as to add bitcoin
Protección’s transfer follows an analogous step by Skandia, which beforehand launched a portfolio with bitcoin publicity utilizing a dollar-cost averaging strategy.
Protección could be the second massive pension administrator in Colombia to take this route.
The corporate framed the product as restricted and managed, emphasizing diversification and danger administration quite than short-term hypothesis.
Correa stated within the interview (translated from Spanish):
“An important component is diversification.”
Scale of Protección’s enterprise
Protección is Colombia’s second-largest pension fund administrator.
It reported about 8.5 million purchasers throughout necessary pensions, voluntary pensions, and severance financial savings.
The agency manages greater than 220 trillion Colombian pesos in belongings, based on figures cited within the report.
The broader necessary pension market totaled 527.3 trillion pesos as of November 2025, with almost 48.8% invested overseas.
The brand new bitcoin-exposure product is aimed primarily at voluntary accounts or custom-made allocations, and doesn’t presently embrace mass necessary financial savings.