Hi kmuirhead,
"Why on earth would an index fund commission a third party to do the short selling so the third party could borrow shares and sell these shares to the index fund?"I think the following logic underlies this:
- An index fund must reflect the inclusion of STX in an index (e.g. ASX 200) in proportionately in a certain time.
- Therefore, the fundmust acquire a correspondingly large quantity of STX shares. The index fundtherefore creates - from its point of view - an “artificial” and large demand.
- If the index fund were to buy the required Strike shares on the market, this would lead to a significant increase in the share price.
- However,an index fund wants to avoid this, as a fall in the share price after coveringits own requirements would have a direct negative impact on the fund value.
- Shortselling therefore provides the necessary liquidity: the index fund can coverthe necessary demand immediately - without moving the share price.
That is theanswer to your question...
I expect that we will see an enormously high volume tomorrow in the closing auction andon Friday an ASIC report on an equally high short selling volume.
Let's see...
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