Here’s a fun contradiction: your financial advisor probably knows about crypto, your advisor’s clients definitely own crypto, and yet your advisor almost certainly isn’t managing any of it.
A CoinShares survey published on June 25 found that 52% of UK wealth advisors reported managing less than half of their clients’ digital asset holdings.
The survey polled 261 wealth management professionals across Europe during Q1 2026, covering the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland.
The management gap is a policy problem, not a knowledge problem
The survey makes clear that the primary obstacle is firm-level policy. A full 61% of the professionals surveyed work at firms with outright restrictions or unclear guidelines around digital asset advising. In firms with supportive digital asset policies, 48% of advisors actively recommend crypto-related products to clients. In firms with restrictions, that number craters to 1%.
