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What a CDO 'Resurgence' Might Mean for Investors

(Jan 2013)

Kaitlin Ugolik at Law360 had an article on Wednesday discussing the recent "bump in demand for collateralized debt obligations." CDOs are complex derivatives that pool assets together and split the risk of that portfolio into tranches which are then sold to investors. CDOs have been implicated in the financial crisis of 2008 and have seen a strong drop-off in new issuances since, though that tide may now be changing.
According to the article, some lenders are predicting a large increase in...

More SEC Charges Coming Related to MBS Disclosures

(Feb 2012)

According to the Wall Street Journal today, several banks may soon face charges related to the disclosure of risks related to their sales of mortgage-backed-securities in 2006. The SEC is reportedly concerned about whether these banks "misled investors about the underlying pool of assets."

We have several posts lately and a research paper on similar disclosure issues for both collateralized loan obligations and mortgage-backed-securities, in which we describe how the warehousing of assets...

Dealbreaker on the Hayes award and LCM VII CLO

(Feb 2012)

Matt Levine at Dealbreaker posted last night on our work regarding the Hayes award and the LCM VII CLO. He interpreted some of the facts of the case differently, but we think he did touch upon the key issue: the proper disclosure of the decline in the market price of collateral on the closing date. We wanted to directly address a couple points he raised.

To be clear, at least by the closing date the CLO did track the daily mark-to-market value of the loans in the LCM VII portfolio using...

A Wipeout That Didn't Have to Happen

(Feb 2012)

This weekend the New York Times' Gretchen Morgenson wrote an article about the recent FINRA award against Banc of America Securities for their LCM VII CLO. We have blogged about this case before, and have put together a research paper describing the underlying issue of warehousing assets in structured credit derivatives. We are very grateful to the New York Times and Gretchen Morgenson for giving this story the attention it deserves.

The fundamental problem with structured credit and many...

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