equitizing long/short short

pimpineasy

invest in futures for the same amount as proceeds from short sale? (first choice i believe?)

bpdulog

A

Dont have to change strategic asset allocation

Roflnadal

njboe227 Wrote:
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> I chose B - cannot underweight beyond index
> weight. Pretty sure this is right. THoughts?


It was asking about the market neutral long-short, so it CAN underweight beyond index weight.

thommo77

ohhh, it was which didn't work?

jmh530

i went with A

canadiananalyst

Oh yeah, the answer for this was A

I am talking about a different question, the difference between long/short equity and another method (can't remember)

Darien

agree A- it asked which didn't do the job.

Unforseen

equitizing a mkt neutral is basically giving it equity exposure (beta) that is doesn't have...thus buying a futures contract - don't recall which choice that was

lcai

A=1st statement?

pennyless

B & C had the same result- Answer had to be A