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Archegos’s Roller Coaster: from $200m to $20bn in a few years and back to zero in a matter of days

Download PDF As of the end of March, financial news worldwide began covering extensively the unraveling of Archegos Capital Management – a family office whose way of conducting business de facto resembled a hedge fund. The speed which characterized this process of wealth destruction and the spillover effects that it Read more…

By BSIC, 5 years18 April 2021 ago

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Short-selling bans – The Introduction

Download PDF Introduction What is short selling? This is the fundamental question that needs precise defining before we proceed with our article, which unfortunately will not involve Margot Robbie in a bubble bath drinking 20-year-old Dom Pérignon. What it will present however are examples of applications of short selling as Read more…

By BSIC, 6 years15 November 2020 ago

Archegos’s Roller Coaster: from $200m to $20bn in a few years and back to zero in a matter of days

Short-selling bans – The Introduction

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