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> Hwang and his private investment firm, Archegos Capital Management, are now at the center of one of the biggest margin calls of all time -- a multibillion-dollar fiasco involving secretive market bets that were dangerously leveraged and unwound in a blink.

> One part of Hwang’s portfolio, which has been traded in blocks since Friday by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo & Co., was worth almost $40 billion last week. Bankers reckon that Archegos’s net capital -- essentially Hwang’s wealth -- had reached north of $10 billion. And as disposals keep emerging, estimates of his firm’s total positions keep climbing: tens of billions, $50 billion, even more than $100 billion.

> It evaporated in mere days.

This is the primary gist of the article. The future will tell

Jesus, what is this site? Clickbaity title “One of the world’s greatest hidden fortunes is wiped out in days (click to find out what it is ;))”, GDPR warning you need to individually opt out for, and then before you can even see what the great fortune is, a focus stealing pop up to Sign up for their newsletter! I backed out and lost interest in what that fortune is.