Strategy Pushes Back on MSCI Plan to Exclude Crypto-Heavy Firms, Warning of Bias Against Digital Assets
- Strategy opposed MSCI’s proposal to exclude firms with over 50% crypto holdings, arguing it misrepresents digital-asset treasury operations.
- The company warned the policy could bias indexes against crypto, create instability, and conflict with US federal initiatives promoting Bitcoin innovation.
- Strategy highlighted accounting differences, volatility, and concentrated asset norms in other sectors as reasons the policy is arbitrary and potentially disruptive.
Strategy has submitted a detailed response to MSCI opposing a proposed policy that would remove companies holding more than half of their assets in cryptocurrencies from global equity benchmarks. The firm argued that the proposal misrepresents how…
