Every day the Financial Conduct Authority publishes a list of which shares are being shorted and who is doing the shorting. Shorttracker.co.uk also maintains a useful update. The same names crop up again and again – Marshall Wace, Odey Asset Management, GLG, AQR and BlackRock.
Marshall Wace manages about $39bn (£32bn) from its Mayfair HQ, and was co-founded by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace. In January they penned an article for the Times (paywall) titled “Let’s hurry up with Brexit: there will be benefits for all”.
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Crispin Odey of Odey Asset Management has donated almost £900,000 to pro-Brexit campaigns, and also placed huge bets against the pound and government bonds in the run-up to the June 2016 referendum. It is estimated he made an estimated £220m profit when the pound collapsed following the leave victory.
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