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Systematic investing,
one market at a time.

Royal Trust Investments is an investment firm built on research and technology. We are expanding our research and systems to take the firm into new markets.

We treat every idea as a hypothesis.

Our research team studies how markets behave and turns what it learns into systematic strategies. The work is cumulative, and each new market we enter builds on what we have already learned.

RigourEvery idea is tested before it is trusted with capital.
SelectivityMost of what we study never reaches the portfolio.
ReviewOur research is reviewed independently.
Our research

We build the systems we trade on.

We build and run our own systems for data, research and trading. Owning the technology end to end lets us move quickly, control how our strategies are executed and keep risk management close to every trade.

DataCollected, stored and maintained in‑house.
ExecutionRun on systems we built and operate ourselves.
RiskBuilt into the trading systems themselves.

We manage capital systematically.

We invest through a portfolio of systematic strategies in liquid markets. Each strategy is built around how a market works, and the portfolio as a whole is managed within a single framework for risk.

SystematicEvery trade is placed by our systems.
LiquidWe trade where markets are deep.
DisciplinedOne framework for risk across the portfolio.
How we invest

Over the past decade the market has built the regulated access, custody and legal frameworks that institutional investors expect.

Dec 2017Regulated bitcoin futures begin trading on CME.
Jul 2020US national banks are cleared to hold digital assets in custody.
Jan 2024Spot bitcoin ETFs begin trading in the United States, followed by ether in July.
Dec 2024The EU’s MiCA regulation comes into full effect.
Jul 2025The United States enacts its first federal law for stablecoins.

The size and activity of the digital asset market today.

$2.57T
Total market value
$56.4B
Traded in the last 24 hours
59.3%
Bitcoin’s share of the market
10.6%
Ether’s share of the market

As of 7 Nov 2026

Why digital assets

A market worth making investable

Every financial market begins inefficient. Equity markets spent decades building the research, capital and competition that now price most risk efficiently. Digital asset markets are early on that path: information takes longer to reach prices, and risk is not always priced the way the evidence suggests.

We build systematic strategies to find those gaps and trade them. Each trade moves a price closer to where it belongs and adds depth where the market is thin. This is how young markets mature, and it is the work we want to be known for: helping digital assets become a market that every investor can rely on.

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