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16 September
This hedge fund smells blood in the water and is launching a short-selling strategy to capitalize

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One manager targets financials, real estate and solar for shorts

A new hedge fund is being launched to short stocks.
A new hedge fund is being launched to short stocks. Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto

The stock market is registering one record high after another, unconcernedly shrugging off the various economic crises, geopolitical volatility, trade wars, debt mountains and expensive valuations that beset it. Having been singed once too often, short-selling strategies have been sidelined throughout the summer.

Now, though, one hedge fund manager believes these are the optimal conditions and precise momentum to establish one such strategy.