The Model Room · MR-035
HE SENT THE ANALYSIS ON AUGUST 6TH. THE CIO READ IT AT 9AM. FOURTEEN FUNDS HELD THE SAME FORTY POSITIONS.
On August 6, 2007, Marcus Chen sent an urgent analysis detailing systemic crowding risks linked to fourteen quantitative funds. The CIO read it the next morning, but by 9:30am, the selloff had already begun, leading to an eighteen billion dollar loss, with Phalanx alone suffering four point one billion.
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