NOTE TO PRESS – Cartwright Pension Trusts Launches Annual Bitcoin Review

UK – [01 July 2025] – Cutting Through the Noise—Why Bitcoin Matters to UK Pension Schemes

Back in November 2024, Cartwright Pension Trusts announced its role in facilitating the first-ever UK DB pension trust investment in Bitcoin. With the small 3% allocation proving a success for the client, they estimate that bitcoin has a legitimate role for c500 DB trusts and the majority of DC trusts. However, they also recognise that bitcoin is a polarising topic, as is often the case with new innovations.

As such, Cartwright Pension Trusts alongside their Charitable Trusts, Corporate Treasury and Employee Benefits business lines, is excited to announce its first Bitcoin Review – a new, plain-English publication designed to demystify Bitcoin and highlight its growing relevance to UK pension schemes.

The Cartwright | Annual Bitcoin Review | 2025 |   – Cartwright: Annual Bitcoin Review 2025

As the conversation around Bitcoin evolves, so too must the understanding of its potential role in long-term financial strategy. This annual review aims to serve as a clear and practical reference tool for trustees, advisors, press, and policymakers navigating an increasingly noisy, and sometimes confusing, digital asset landscape –a helpful tool for anyone looking to better understand Bitcoin from a UK pensions perspective.

Cartwright hopes this annual review will provide readers with an unbiased, fact-based understanding of bitcoin to enable them to look through the noise of the price volatility caused by human emotion and see the opportunity in the asset.

This first edition outlines two reasons this conversation can’t wait:

1. Bitcoin’s Institutional Moment – With in-built scarcity and increasing clarity around regulation, Bitcoin is entering a new era of institutional interest. Already adopted by the first ever defined benefit (DB) scheme in the UK early this year – more pension funds, charities and companies are now looking at Bitcoin as a long-term, strategic asset. Even employers are looking at bitcoin as part of a salary and/or bonus solution for their workforce
2. A Wake-Up Call for the UK Economy – Global economies are at a critical juncture – there is inflation, uncertainly and change – and there will be ongoing impact on the UK economy. Bitcoin could provide the solution

What’s inside?

• What is Bitcoin, really? A plain-English explanation of what Bitcoin actually is
• Bitcoin’s origins and why it matters now more than ever
• Investment considerations for pension funds and institutions
• How Bitcoin is already working in the UK pensions space
• A jargon-busting glossary
• Forward-looking insights on the future of money and financial sovereignty

Cartwright Pension Trusts

Our experience, people and pioneering spirit is what sets us apart.

Cartwright has spent over 39 years honing their unique skillset to be the ace in the hole for trustees and sponsors of small to medium defined benefit and hybrid pension trusts – an often badly-catered-for market.

They are proud to offer the level of service usually reserved for the big players; innovative, professional and totally bespoke. And, with direct access to a real person, an expert in their field.

Today, Cartwright has over 150 clients nationwide who rely on their actuarial, administration, investment, secretarial and governance services to keep them ahead of the curve.

And, that same pioneering spirit remains as they branch into new markets; applying their unique know-how to sectors of a similar nature and with similar problems; Charitable Trusts, Corporate Treasury, Employee Rewards and Funeral Trusts.

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