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AIMCo Bought 1.38 Million Strategy Shares in Q1 for About $172 Million

According to an SEC 13F filing, AIMCo bought 1.382 million Strategy shares in Q1 2026 for about $172.47 million, generating roughly $69 million in unrealized gains in its first reported Bitcoin-related investment.

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All key elements of the claim are confirmed by the primary source — the @BTCtreasuries X post (status/2049768860229018109) — which directly cites a regulatory disclosure: AIMCo (Canadian government-owned, $142B AUM) purchased 1.38 million Strategy (MSTR) shares worth $219 million as its first Bitcoin-related allocation. This is independently corroborated by Odaily, TechFlowPost, and Lookonchain, all reporting the same figures on 2026-04-30. The underlying data originates from a 13F SEC filing tracked by BitcoinTreasuries.NET. The only minor caveat is that the primary source is a social media aggregator (BTCtreasuries) rather than the SEC filing itself or an AIMCo press release, which introduces a small residual uncertainty. However, the consistency across multiple independent outlets and the specificity of the figures (1.38 million shares, $219 million) strongly support the claim's accuracy.
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Summary

Alberta Investment Management Corporation, or AIMCo, disclosed in an SEC 13F filing that it bought 1.382 million shares of Strategy in Q1 2026 for about $172.47 million. The Alberta state-backed fund’s position had about $69 million in unrealized gains at the time referenced in the report. The purchase is described as AIMCo’s first Bitcoin-related investment, giving the Canadian institutional manager indirect exposure to Strategy, whose large Bitcoin treasury has made its stock a common proxy for Bitcoin-linked market exposure.

Terms & Concepts
  • Bitcoin-related investment: An investment tied to the crypto market without necessarily involving direct ownership of Bitcoin itself.
  • Bitcoin treasury: A corporate strategy of holding Bitcoin on the balance sheet as a reserve asset.
  • Unrealized gains: An increase in an investment’s value on paper that has not been realized through a sale.