More than a quarter of adult British consider investments in digital assets as a tool for maintaining liquidity of pension savings, experts of the Aviva International Insurance Company said.

Aviva survey showed: more than 27% of UK residents are ready to invest in cryptocurrency in order to prepare for a future pension. According to the company’s experts, this may reflect an increase in interest in cryptocurrencies as a new decentralized digital form of money.

About 21% of the survey participants invested in cryptocurrency. Of these, 14% keep digital assets on their wallets for a long time, Aviva said.

Of people age 25–34 years old, about 18% said that previously partially withdrawn funds from pension programs for the purchase of digital assets. Another 23% said that they were ready to send all pension savings for investment in cryptocurrency.

Answering a question about motivation, 43% of respondents replied that they saw in cryptocurrency a chance of great profit in comparison with traditional forms of investment. 36% attracts the innovation of technology, and 32% strive to diversify the investment portfolio and evenly distribute the risks on various assets.

Aviva said that only 13% of respondents do not consider cryptocurrency as part of their pension plan.

Earlier, experts of the IG Group trading company said that when buying digital assets, more than 40% of British crypto -investors regularly face blocking accounts or delay in payments from service banks.