- AFP Protección plans a Bitcoin investment fund with limited access for qualified clients.
- Access will be granted through personalized advisory to assess investor risk profiles, confirmed.
- The product is intended as a diversification option and will not alter core pension allocations in fixed income and equities.
- The launch follows a September rollout of Bitcoin exposure by Skandia Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones y Cesantías.
- AFP Protección manages over 220 trillion Colombian pesos (about $55 billion) and the wider mandatory pension market was 527.3 trillion pesos (about $132 billion) as of November 2025.
AFP Protección, Colombia’s second-largest private pension and severance fund manager, is preparing to launch an investment fund that offers exposure to Bitcoin. Juan David Correa, president of Protección SA, confirmed the initiative and said participation will be limited and subject to a personalized advisory process to assess each investor’s risk profile.
Correa emphasized diversification as the key rationale, stating “The most important element is diversification,” and adding that “those who can participate will find a space for a percentage of their portfolio, if they so wish, to be exposed to this type of asset.” The product will allow qualifying clients to allocate a portion of their portfolios to Bitcoin while keeping traditional assets as the core of pension management.
The move makes AFP Protección the second major Colombian pension fund administrator to enter the digital asset space after Skandia Administradora de Fondos de Pensiones y Cesantías began offering Bitcoin exposure in one of its portfolios in September last year. AFP Protección currently manages more than 220 trillion Colombian pesos (approximately $55 billion) for over 8.5 million clients across mandatory and voluntary plans.
The broader mandatory pension market in Colombia had reached 527.3 trillion pesos (about $132 billion) as of November 2025, according to reporting that tracked overseas holdings and market size data. Separately, Colombia’s tax authority, DIAN, introduced a reporting framework that aligns with the OECD Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework, requiring crypto service providers to collect and submit user and transaction data for tax reporting.
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