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Protected from the subprime chaos
The Latin American region has suffered its fair share of financial difficulties - most of them self-inflicted - but a period of economic stability and rebuilding has left many LatAm countries well equipped to withstand the fallout from the recent…
ABN Amro rejects criticism of CPDOs after index roll fails to dent structures
Fears that the September 20 roll of the CDX and iTraxx indices would put CPDO structures under pressure have so far proved unfounded, with the indices tightening less than expected
First Pacific Advisors - The waiting game pays off
Betting against the markets takes a steady nerve, but for Robert Rodriguez and Thomas Atteberry, investment managers at West Coast house First Pacific Advisors, the strategy has paid off - and how. Dalia Fahmy talks to the two men who run this year's…
Tim Fletcher
Insufficient data is at the root of the credit market's ruined summer, Baseline Capital's sales and marketing director tells Matthew Attwood
It's a cruel, cruel summer
This period of monetary tightening has ended with a pop - just like all the recent ones
The psychology of it all
The events of the summer have ravaged investor confidence in high yield and leveraged loans. Tim Hall at Calyon looks at the effect of the credit meltdown on three constituencies of the market: investors, issuers and underwriters
Putting a price on subprime assets
Structured credit investors nursing losses from subprime-infected assets want better valuation models for illiquid securities such as MBS. But as Stewart Eisenhart reports, such solutions will be tricky to design and costly to implement
Bad luck, bad timing and bad bets ..
Extreme levels of volatility and parched liquidity have shaken up the global hedge fund industry. Nikki Marmery reports on the winners and losers in the summer's relentless ride
David Geen, Ian Richardson, Bill Ryback, Nick Gibson
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