Carla Tardi is a technical editor and digital content producer with 25+ years of experience at top-tier investment banks and money-management firms. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an ...

Learn more about mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and synthetic investments. Find out how these ...

NEW YORK, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Fears that credit derivative indexes will further weaken as investors unwind structured deals known as constant proportion debt obligations, or CPDOs, are likely overblown ...

Credit Derivative Structurer/ Investor /Pioneer turned corporate stand-up comedian Shaun Eli volunteers to help members of the media understand structured investment products, the CDO/CDS market & ...

A report on financial risk based on a survey answered by 175 bankers, regulators and corporate users was published last month by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. They were asked to ...

The ranks of firms looking to set up highly-rated, limited-purpose companies to act as counterparties in credit default swaps are swelling as they look to offload CDO-generated risks. The ranks of ...

Derivatives Week reports growth in the use of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) based on portfolios of credit default swaps (CDS) derived from leveraged loans. Recruiters say the emergence of ...

Financial derivatives have greatly enhanced the range of tools available for managing financial risks. Currently, derivatives are widely used to mitigate and reallocate the financial risk related to ...

At the heart of the global financial crisis of 2007-09 was an obscure credit derivative called the collateralised debt obligation (CDO). CDOs were financial products based on debts – most notoriously, ...

Don’t mistake CLOs for CDOs - CLOs invest in senior secured loans and have built-in risk protections that have been tested through two major market crises. CLOs stand apart from other types of ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the subprime mortgage crisis making investors wary of collateralized debt obligations, or bonds secured by other bonds, Wall Street is cooking up even riskier deals offering ...