Archegos implosion could lead to family-office regulation
Assessing the murky family-office world presents challenges, such as sorting out the different types. The SEC had targeted family office oversight for review this year even before the Archegos blowup.
April 8, 2021 3 MINS
When Archegos Capital Management recently stepped on a derivatives landmine, it may have set off an explosion that will have repercussions for advisory firms that manage wealthy families’ finances.
In late March, Archegos defaulted on margin calls involving swaps transactions that forced the sale of approximately $20 billion in underlying securities. The conflagration, which caused major investment banks to lose nearly $10 billion, is likely to draw regulatory scrutiny of family offices, a category that includes Archegos.