Some of George Soros’ short positions dating back to 2012 were published on the Dutch financial market regulator’s website this week due to “human error,” according to the Dutch Authority for Financial Markets (AFM).
The short positions, bets on a stock declining, were “between 0.2 percent and 0.5 percent,” of shares outstanding in the companies shorted AFM spokesman Ward Snijders told Bloomberg.
The Financial Times earlier reported that some of the positions, including bets against Dutch banks, appeared briefly on the website on Tuesday evening. One Dutch bank in which short positions were revealed Tuesday was ING Groep NV, according to the Financial Times. ING declined to comment on Thursday.
The Dutch market authority apologized after admitting it had accidentally published details of short positions in stocks on its website beyond what it normally discloses.
It was possible the list of positions had been downloaded and was being distributed among traders but it had been removed from the agency's website by Wednesday morning, AFM spokesman Michiel Gosens told Reuters.
"We regret this mistake," the agency said.
The AFM routinely publishes a list of short positions larger than 0.5 percent of shares in most stocks listed on the Euronext exchange in Amsterdam. It also asks investors to report positions between 0.2 and 0.5 percent but does not normally release these.
Gosens could also not confirm names of the funds or people whose short positions were revealed.
Dutch financial newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad described the list as including mostly "Anglo-Saxon investors such as Marshall Wace and AQR -- there are no surprising names."
Representatives for Soros Fund Management, Marshall Wace and AQR either could not be reached or could not immediately respond.
(Newsmax wire services contributed to this report).
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