Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF Undercuts BlackRock to Capture Wealth Management Assets
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Beau St. James
crypto IRS ruling · Apr 9, 2026
Source: DojiDoji Data Terminal
Investors now have the cheapest spot Bitcoin ETF in the United States. Morgan Stanley has launched the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust (MSBT), which carries a 0.14% expense ratio. This fee undercuts BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), which charges 0.25%.
Through its wealth-management arm, Morgan Stanley has a built-in distribution engine of 16,000 financial advisors. The bank can now funnel high-net-worth and institutional clients into its own proprietary product rather than sending assets and fees to competitors.
On its first day of trading on NYSE Arca on April 8, MSBT attracted between $30.6 million and $32 million in net inflows and logged more than 1.6 million shares in volume. The fund logged $34 million in trading volume.
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