If a leveraged position cannot be liquidated, someone else is eating that risk. That was my assumption the first time I read about 2Factor, and it is wrong in a specific way worth walking through.
Nobody is eating it silently. The senior tranche is compensated for it directly, in the form of a premium paid by the junior tranche for the protection it receives. Remove the liquidation trigger and the risk does not vanish, it gets priced and assigned to a specific counterparty inside the same structure, not pushed off onto some unnamed party outside it.
Conventional leverage prices against the cost of borrowing, shorts, external hedges. 2Factor prices against the cost of stable yield instead, which the research describes as structurally cheaper and more predictable than what conventional leverage relies on.
That difference is why the multiple is asset-specific rather than fixed. The productive band only exists where an asset's long-run drift can outpace volatility drag and financing drag combined. Get the multiple wrong for the asset and the band closes, no matter how the risk was labeled.
None of this makes the junior tranche free of downside. It still absorbs more of the asset's movement than the senior does. What changes is the mechanism forcing an exit, not the presence of risk itself.
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If removing a liquidation trigger does not remove risk, who ends up holding it instead, and did you know before reading this?"