Article seems to be wrong on several major points? • "The fund was not overly levered" • "Its risk was not hidden" • "Hwang typically ran dollar-neutral portfolios" • "Analysts had full insight into Archegos’ ... position sizes"https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-30/wall-street-archegos-collapse-is-business-as-usual-not-a-disaster …
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There is a *massive* difference between a quant equity book (carefully hedged to sector, country and factor exposures) which can run 10-15x leverage and still be pretty low volatility vs. levered 5x long in concentrated shitcos "hedged" with index futures
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This is particularly awful. If you have a concentrated long book in stocks which are broadly all in the same sector, and you hedge that with index futures ... that is a bad hedge! You are taking a fuckload of risk if you do that!pic.twitter.com/zeyB2xxGKE
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So, what positioned moved against him so hard to trigger a margin call?
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Likely a few at once but I think mostly VIAC
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it was his money, he could lever it how he liked
i've probably had more than he did.
also I don't think the risks were "hidden" at least not in the enron or worldcom sense. maybe in the AIG FP sense, if you count thatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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