We’re going to hear a lot about equity total return swaps over the next couple of days but let me take a second to point out how extremely normal they are and how unsurprising it should be to find out that Archegos was using them.
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A CFD is something I’m less familiar with but it seems to be essentially the same as a perpetual TRS with higher fees and aimed at retail traders? You still receive dividends if long and pay them if short.
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In some countries (eg India) it is common to trade futures on single names, essentially to get around foreign ownership restrictions. These function like single name forwards but they are exchange cleared rather than bilateral.
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