LONDON (Reuters) - The top slices of some collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) are a bargain, credit strategists say, but suitable only for investors with the balance sheet and stomach to weather ...

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The threat of spread-widening continues to lurk just under the surface of benign credit market conditions. One of the unique selling points of a hybrid CDO, Jazz 3, managed by Axa and arranged by ...

The market divides into three distinct parts. The oldest type of synthetic CDO is the balance-sheet or regulatory capital deal. Banks started to issue these in 1997, realizing that they could reduce ...

Buried within a 4,500-page financial statement for an Apollo-owned insurance company lies a 20-year relic of the global ...

Kamakura Corporation released an important research paper on collateralized debt valuation that proves a common market assumption about correlations can lead to dramatically incorrect CDO valuations.