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Short selling is not unethical – whatever the world's biggest pension fund tells you

Japan’s government pension fund is to stop lending the overseas shares it owns to short sellers. But in reality, there’s nothing wrong with short selling, says John Stepek. Here’s why.

by: John Stepek
4 Dec 2019

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