While investor appetite for tokenised assets has been surging for some time, new research suggests that most institutional investors now favour it to access pre-IPO opportunities. Given that it breaks down real-world assets into smaller, more affordable units, tokenisation - by leveraging blockchain technology - gives retail investors tickets to a dance previously reserved for institutional players or high-net-worth individuals due to high capital requirements. For example, instead of requiring a single buyer to invest $10 million, the [asset] owner might issue 100,000 digital tokens, each representing $100 of the property.Asset diversityAs well as satisfying growing demand for greater liquidity, lower costs, greater transparency and shorter settlement times, tokenised assets – aka fractional ownership – also allow retail investors to more easily diversify into asset classes previously off limits. Virtually any valuable asset can be tokenised, and new research suggests that around 70% of institutional investors have expressed strong or moderate interest in taking it one step further: by using this new digital channel to gain access to pre-IPO opportunities. By levelling the investor playing field, tokenisation means mu