Can cryptocurrencies be included in a sensible investor's portfolio? SECTIONS Last Updated: Jun 09, 2021, 07:07 PM IST Share Synopsis While we’re talking of cryptocurrencies in general, much of the background material is on Bitcoin, simply because that is the one digital token that has been there for the longest time and has a history, if you may! Co-founders, First Global Shankar Sharma heads the global strategy group at First Global. Referred to as 'The Alchemist of Dalal Street' by Forbes magazine, he is known for rightly predicting the 2000 dotcom bust, the 2008 market crash, the Indian market bull run since 2009, the oil price crash in 2008 and the oil bull market in 2016. A Dean’s List alumni from Asian Institute of Management, Manila, Sharma had a successful stint with Citibank, before founding his own venture, First Global (www.firstglobalsec.com) in 1990. He is very active on social media and can be followed at Twitter (https://bit.ly/3fIPN68), Facebook (https://bit.ly/3kkHQYf), LinkedIn (https://bit.ly/3fFwt9A), Instagram (https://bit.ly/3gO1klC) and Youtube (https://bit.ly/3ih1z9h). Devina Mehra, Co-founder and Chairperson of First Global, is an IIM-A gold medalist. She, too, had a seven-year-long stint at Citibank before launching India’s leading institutional brokerage firm. She spearheaded First Global's globalisation over two decades ago, making First Global the first Asian (ex-Japan) firm to become a member of the London Stock Exchange and then the NASD. Some of her major calls were identifying the cashflow turnaround in Amazon at a price of $11 and highlighting the accounting shenanigans in Worldcom and Enron well ahead of the scandals. Her twitter handle is @devinamehra. Both of them have been quoted widely on Global as well as Indian markets by global financial media like Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, CNBC, Financial Times etc