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'X' marks the spot
In a little over two years, DB x-trackers has captured an impressive 17% share of Europe's ETF market. With an existing portfolio of more than 100 products, the provider now plans to expand its offering...
Cautious optimism pervaded the fourth annual Structured Products Americas conference, held in May at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables in Miami. Speakers and panellists seemed happy to reacquaint themselves...
Some distributors in Asia are offering first-to-default retail credit notes that give sovereign exposure, signalling a revival of interest in credit. But heavy mark-to-market losses and the use of CDOs...
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Introduction
Credit dealers have experienced unprecedented volatility over the past six months. Rising delinquencies in US subprime mortgage loans have swept through their markets, causing downgrades, plunging valuations and liquidity to dry up to a trickle. Banks...
One-way fear
Data vendor Markit has postponed the next roll of its ABX.HE index until March due to a shortage of eligible new asset-backed securities. The news has prompted some dealers to claim the future of the index could be in doubt. Radi Khasawneh reports
Credit risk modelling
Best practice in credit risk modelling and management cobines empirical data, research expertise, and technological capability. In this article, Geoff Fite and Jing Zhang identify and expound on these requirements and illustrate a sample solution that...
Rising from the ashes
The structured credit market ground to a halt in the third quarter of last year amid rising defaults in the US subprime mortgage sector. While parts of the credit market remain closed, the synthetic collateralised loan obligation market looks set for...
Rating knock-outs
Constant proportion debt obligations and their AAA ratings have elicited strong feelings throughout the structured credit market since their invention in 2006. In the wake of market gyrations, both their net asset values and their ratings are under threat....
Structured credit comes unstuck
Structured credit has never had it so bad. From being on the cusp of breaking into the mainstream business, in the space of a few months the market has descended into a state of panic in which liquidity is nowhere to be found. And things may never be...
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