We’ve been testing versions of a methodology that we think will become industry standard over the next few years. The task is to walk through three main ways that an investment firm can gain short exposure – short selling the physical, buying put options and trading total return swaps (TRS) with a dealer – and put that into one picture. While a full Finadium report on this topic is in the works for August, we ran the numbers based on a recent Financial Times interview with Jim Chanos.
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