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Mounting concentration risk has forced the fund house to change tack yet again. While shifting focus to small-cap stocks from defensive ones could somewhat help, such frequent switches are less than ideal.

The central bank’s shift to a 100% collateral requirement threatens to erode leverage, reduce volumes and force a consolidation across prop desks.
While the regulator’s interim order alleges massive irregularities, the long arc of unfinished probes, hearings and appeals makes closure distant.
As growth in equities cools, asset managers are looking to embed themselves in payrolls, payments, and credit. This raises their influence, but also the stakes.