<p>A new survey shows that few financial advisors have allocated crypto for their clients' portfolios – but more say they intend to do so in 2020. </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">According to a new survey shared with The Block by cryptocurrency asset manager Bitwise, among the 400-plus financial advisors they spoke with in December 2019, only 6% of them currently have allocations to crypto in their client portfolios. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But an additional 7% said they would either “definitely” (1%) or “probably” (6%) make such allocations in the new year. The remainder said they either "probably" or "definitely" would not seek such investments. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The survey found that crypto’s perceived ability to act as an inflation hedge is the number one motivation for including it in portfolios. Indeed, 54% of surveyed advisors highlighted the low correlation between crypto returns and the returns of other assets as one of crypto's most attractive features.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This warming attitude also comes from advisors’ realization that their clients are already interested in crypto assets. 76% of them said that clients made inquiries about crypto in 2019, the survey shows, and 72% suspect that their clients may be investing in crypto on their own.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sixty-four percent of respondents said that they expecting the price of bitcoin to go up over the next five years.</span></p>