I think there is one thing missing in your summary, this process doesn't require shorters to operate. The block trades and the deal matching are done all day every day by Institutional Dealing desks. The real question for me, is this the second last chapter of the plan? If so, the plan was to not to assist funds who are exiting, it was to manufacture their exit. We will get some clarity when updated short positions reveal if shorters were both the natural and actual buyers of the MSCI funds exiting. At 30c+, where we should be, would we be in or out of the MSCI small cap index? Maybe I am too cynical.
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