Improving Performance With Credit Default Swaps

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Overview: Better diversification could have improved performance for a lot of unfortunate credit asset managers in recent years. Credit default swaps originated as a means to provide simple insurance to lenders. However, they have evolved into actively traded securities and building blocks of structured instruments such as collateralized debt obligations, credit linked notes and first-to-default baskets. This paper offers five tactical uses for credit default swaps (CDS) as part of the credit investment process.

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Format: PDF | Size: 728KB | Date: Jan 2004 | Pages: 52

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