Toronto, June 17, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Not for distribution to U.S. newswire services or for dissemination in the United States.
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3iQ Corp. (“3iQ”), the largest digital asset manager in Canada, announced today that unitholders of The Bitcoin Fund (the “Fund”) who had tendered their Fund units (“Units”) for redemption, in-kind or for cash, in connection with the annual redemption feature of the Fund will be entitled to receive US$43.1193 per Unit, the net asset value per Unit on the annual redemption date of June 16, 2021. Payments will be made on or before June 30, 2021.
As previously announced, as of May 31, 2021, being the cut-off date relating to both the annual redemption feature of Fund as well as the voluntary conversion option to the 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF (the “ETF”): 1,971,302 Units were surrendered for in-kind redemption, 189,073 Units were surrendered for cash redemption, and 7,098,564 Units (the “Conversion Units”) were surrendered for conversion to units of the ETF (“ETF Units”). The Conversion Units were converted to 47,325,940 ETF Units on June 1, 2021, on a relative net asset value basis.
About 3iQ Corp.
Founded in 2012, 3iQ is Canada’s largest digital asset investment fund manager with more than C$2.5 billion in assets under management. 3iQ was the first Canadian investment fund manager to offer a public bitcoin investment fund, The Bitcoin Fund (TSX: QBTC, QBTC.U), and a public Ether investment fund, The Ether Fund (TSX: QETH.UN, QETH.U). More recently, 3iQ launched the 3iQ CoinShares Bitcoin ETF (TSX: BTCQ, BTCQ.U) and the 3iQ CoinShares Ether ETF (TSX: ETHQ, ETHQ.U). 3iQ offers investors convenient and familiar investment products to gain exposure to digital assets. For more information about 3iQ and its digital asset investment funds, visit www.3iq.io or follow us on Twitter @3iQ_corp.