Exploring wider horizons

Monte Paschi Asset Management is the only Italian asset manager active in the synthetic collateralised debt obligation market. And it is now setting its sights on Australian retail investors. By Rachel Wolcott

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Monte Paschi Asset Management (MPAM) launched its first synthetic collateralised debt obligation (CDO) two years ago and is still the only Italian asset manager active in market. MPAM, the fund management arm of the world's oldest bank, Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, has issued six deals since the launch of its first CDO, totalling in excess of €4 billion in notional assets under management.

Corso Pecori Giraldi, Milan-based head of institutional credit management, views the CDO business as a

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