AQR launches Article 8 market neutral fund
Strategy will hold a long portfolio with an attractive ESG profile, while shorting companies with a poor ESG profile
Short Selling
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Graniteshares: European short sellers target consumer discretionary sector
A quarter of the 100 most shorted European companies came from the sector
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‘You need to actually focus on the problem’: Trium’s Mares on improving high-emitters and sustainable shorting
ESG Emissions Improvers fund plays the dispersion between high-emitters who can adapt to more sustainable practices and those that cannot
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Ocado, Boohoo and Moonpig: Short sellers target UK retailers
Nine investment firms betting against Ocado as at 3 July
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Short sellers circle Hargreaves and beleaguered fund groups
D2C platform and Ashmore among top 10 most shorted UK stocks, while Abrdn is not far behind
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Billions in new short positions levelled against UK names
Uncompromising macroeconomic environment has started to expose unsustainable valuations
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Trio of Lindsell Train stocks among the most-shorted in Europe
Juventus and Hargreaves Lansdown have experienced double-digit share price drops in the last year
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Gamestop trading frenzy fuels fears of next equity bubble
Ruffer warns of ‘over-exuberant’ markets but other investors think stocks have further to climb
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Alexander Darwall takes investment trust stake to £26m after ditching Grenke
European Opportunities manager last topped up his personal holding after Wirecard blew up
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Crispin Odey points to ‘element of Madoff in the system’ at Wirecard
Odey Asset Management founder pocketed £100m on shorting Wirecard and Intu Properties
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Crispin Odey to sue regulator over Wirecard short-selling ban
The German regulator sought to stem short-selling in the financial payments business at the start of 2019
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FCA told to avoid appeasing ‘beta jockeys’ with short-selling ban
‘We now hear this whinging from long-only managers when they have lost their clients a lot of money’
