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Issue 129 - March 25th

  • News Analysis

    • Correlation

      • Fit for purpose?

        Bonus row raises questions over correlation model viability

        The furore surrounding retention bonuses paid to AIG Financial Products staff has drawn attention to...

    • Distressed assets

      • PPIP revealed

        Initiative could cause more pain in the short term

        Further details of the US Treasury's public-private investment programme (PPIP) received a wary welc...

    • Investors

      • Expansion fever

        Hedge funds look to future TALF changes

        A number of hedge fund managers have already begun preparing for potential future changes in the TAL...

    • Documentation

      • Close-out conundrum

        Court action provides some clarity for derivatives documentation

        The inability of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate to access the value of in-the-money swaps in...

  • News

    • SIVs

      • SIV asset sale scheduled

        Standard Chartered's SIV, Whistlejacket, has entered into restructuring and portfolio sale agreement...

  • Talking Point

    • Operations

      • Better economic paradigms

        Stefan Wasilewski, ceo Contingent Capital Corporation, discusses a bridge to sustainable economic me...

        RepriseIn two previous articles (see SCI issues 118 and 125) I suggested that Alan Greenspan was not...

  • Job Swaps

      • Duo hired for distressed strategy

        The latest company and people moves

        Nim Sivakumaran and Sameer Dalamal are said to have joined Och Ziff's European structured credit tea...

  • News Round-up

  • Research Notes

    • Trading

      • Trading ideas: black out

        Byron Douglass, senior research analyst at Credit Derivatives Research, looks at an outright short o...

        In addition to the obvious retailers, Black & Decker finds itself at the epicenter of a mass...


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