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What immortal hand or eye: The Archegos affair, Part 1.

What immortal hand or eye: The Archegos affair, Part 1.

A “Family office”. Sounds harmless? Isn’t.

Jul 23, 2022
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Special edition, only of interest to those with a taste for scandal, disaster, human weakness and prime brokerage. A look back on the Archegos catastrophe. Part 1 of a 2 part series.

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In the months leading up to March 2021, a family office called Archegos Capital Management built derivative positions in a han…

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