1. If you aren’t stock lending yet or issuing stock loans, you should seriously consider starting Some people may be concerned about making their securities available for loan to short-sellers. I am not going to get into the philosophical debate about the merits of short-selling here, but if you think that you joining the market is going to enable short sellers further, think again. There are already over $20 trillion of securities available for loan from a broad array of investors segments around the world, so unless you have a huge small-cap portfolio that’s new to the market, it’s unlikely you will be changing the supply/demand dynamics. What I can tell you for sure is that investors that are lending are capturing revenues you aren’t.
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