iShares Silver Trust
Hedge Funds Holdings

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iShares Silver Trust‘s stocks are currently a part of 712 hedge funds’ portfolios, which represents 49.2% of the total amount of its stocks outstanding. This makes up a total of 183.47M shares of iShares Silver Trust. Compared to the previous quarter, the number grew by 14.28% or 22.93M shares more. As for the holding position changes, 33.01% (235) of current hedge fund investors increased the number of shares held, 26.54% (189) of current holders sold a part of the shares held, and 10.53% (75) closed the holdings completely. 105 hedge funds are new holders of iShares Silver Trust stock in Q1 2022, it is 14.75% of total holders.

Hedge funds holding iShares Silver Trust (Q2 2017 – Q1 2022)

Number of hedge funds
Q2 2017 353
Q3 2017 355
Q4 2017 395
Q1 2018 405
Q2 2018 395
Q3 2018 407
Q4 2018 393
Q1 2019 389
Q2 2019 370
Q3 2019 412
Q4 2019 444
Q1 2020 438
Q2 2020 483
Q3 2020 581
Q4 2020 673
Q1 2021 699
Q2 2021 724
Q3 2021 651
Q4 2021 697
Q1 2022 712

Hedge funds changes in iShares Silver Trust positions (Q2 2017 – Q1 2022)

Changes in positions
Q2 2017 30113933186
Q3 2017 34941082594
Q4 2017 76881203675
Q1 2018 581021184384
Q2 2018 3311410241105
Q3 2018 59961184787
Q4 2018 61791416943
Q1 2019 431121074582
Q2 2019 43931065771
Q3 2019 77128903384
Q4 2019 921121245957
Q1 2020 741321217437
Q2 2020 971561125365
Q3 2020 1722091146818
Q4 2020 1572261646066
Q1 2021 1182991588539
Q2 2021 9026517266131
Q3 2021 5420220511872
Q4 2021 1251592467493
Q1 2022 10523518975108

Hedge funds changes in iShares Silver Trust stock options (Q2 2017 – Q1 2022)

Changes in stock options
Q2 2017 528,600,400 241,460,600
Q3 2017 564,282,480 290,050,500
Q4 2017 158,530,340,241 307,636,746
Q1 2018 74,544,756,609 23,339,680,214
Q2 2018 1,423,372,155 17,279,223,810
Q3 2018 456,996,421 299,810,242
Q4 2018 608,794,740 412,184,944
Q1 2019 484,245,464 341,402,680
Q2 2019 597,032,600 435,869,848
Q3 2019 24,526,670,048 1,173,924,640
Q4 2019 17,537,562,600 981,385,348
Q1 2020 24,115,550,000 802,344,000
Q2 2020 21,058,286,000 1,138,079,000
Q3 2020 881,719,710,540 430,625,629,000
Q4 2020 306,093,672,583 3,364,971,000
Q1 2021 486,570,561,287 3,058,382,000
Q2 2021 816,930,546,692 3,702,876,000
Q3 2021 570,880,654,000 2,497,421,000
Q4 2021 65,213,141,845,500 2,392,556,650
Q1 2022 3,581,709,000 2,477,158,000

Top 50 hedge fund holders of iShares Silver Trust (AMEX:SLV)

Hedge fund Value Shares owned Portfolio share
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 960.66M 54.89M 0.138%
CTC LLC 485.85M 277.66K 0.305%
SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP 417.20M 23.84M 0.108%
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 287.49M 16.42M 0.067%
CTC LLC 239.92M 137.13K 0.150%
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 231.58M 13.23M 0.073%
TORONTO DOMINION BANK 201.15M 11.49M 0.358%
JANE STREET GROUP, LLC 192.55M 11.00M 0.084%
OPTIVER HOLDING B.V. 189.18M 10.80M 0.164%
MORGAN STANLEY 179.93M 10.28M 0.025%
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ 178.5M 10.2M 0.021%
PARALLAX VOLATILITY ADVISERS, L.P. 174.22M 9.95M 0.269%
UBS GROUP AG 173.79M 9.93M 0.076%
UBS GROUP AG 161.88M 9.25M 0.071%
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ 161.00M 9.20M 0.019%
SIMPLEX TRADING, LLC 159.40M 9.10M 0.180%
CITADEL ADVISORS LLC Ken Griffin 145.23M 8.29M 0.033%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO 138.33M 7.90M 0.020%
SUSQUEHANNA INTERNATIONAL GROUP, LLP 124.70M 7.12M 0.032%
BREVAN HOWARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LP 121.33M 6.93M 4.413%
BNP PARIBAS ARBITRAGE, SNC 110.22M 62.98K 0.176%
CITIGROUP INC 108.5M 6.2M 0.078%
UBS GROUP AG 106.31M 6.07M 0.047%
CLEAR STREET LLC 98M 5.6M 2.273%
IMC-CHICAGO, LLC 94.96M 5.42M 0.122%
OPTIVER HOLDING B.V. 89.92M 5.13M 0.078%
TWIN TREE MANAGEMENT, LP 89.11M 5.09M 0.171%
GOLDMAN SACHS GROUP INC 88.55M 5.06M 0.021%
SQUAREPOINT OPS LLC 87.5M 5M 0.442%
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN 81.81M 4.67M 0.027%
DEER PARK ROAD CORP 77M 4.4M 0.990%
CITADEL ADVISORS LLC Ken Griffin 76.58M 4.37M 0.018%
GROUP ONE TRADING, L.P. 70.54M 4.03M 0.139%
DRW SECURITIES, L.L.C. 60.98M 3.48M 1.291%
DRW SECURITIES, L.L.C. 59.42M 3.39M 1.258%
BNP PARIBAS ARBITRAGE, SNC 58.00M 3.31M 0.093%
LPL FINANCIAL LLC 57.77M 3.30M 0.056%
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT GROUP LLP Jean Hynes 55.36M 3.16M 0.012%
IMC-CHICAGO, LLC 54.29M 3.10M 0.070%
SIMPLEX TRADING, LLC 52.96M 3.02M 0.060%
JANE STREET GROUP, LLC 51.91M 2.96M 0.023%
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA 50.87M 2.90M 0.016%
CREDIT SUISSE AG/ 49.85M 2.84M 0.056%
PEAK6 INVESTMENTS LLC 47.28M 2.70M 0.198%
WOLVERINE TRADING, LLC 40.22M 2.31M 0.065%
TWIN TREE MANAGEMENT, LP 39.52M 2.25M 0.076%
PARALLAX VOLATILITY ADVISERS, L.P. 37.96M 2.16M 0.059%
WOLVERINE TRADING, LLC 37.56M 2.16M 0.060%
DEER PARK ROAD CORP 35M 2M 0.450%
BARCLAYS PLC 30.30M 1.73M 0.033%