Canada's $142B sovereign fund AIMCo discloses $219M stake in MicroStrategy!

Alberta Investment Management Corp (AIMCo), the $142 billion Canadian sovereign wealth fund, has disclosed a purchase of 1.38 million MSTR shares valued at approximately $219 million — marking its first-ever allocation to a Bitcoin-related treasury asset. The disclosure was surfaced by BitcoinTreasuries.

For a government-owned institution of AIMCo's scale, this is a meaningful signal: sovereign capital is no longer treating Bitcoin-adjacent equities as off-limits. MicroStrategy's proxy-BTC model has now attracted one of Canada's largest institutional managers, adding to a growing list of state-linked funds quietly building exposure through the MSTR wrapper rather than direct spot holdings.

The move reinforces the broader trend of institutional capital finding its way into Bitcoin through regulated equity vehicles — a path that sidesteps custody complexity while still capturing the…