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Synthetic collateralized debt obligation (synthetic CDO)

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Uploaded by on Mar 19, 2008

The key difference between a cash and synthetic CDO is: instead of selling the reference portfolio (loans), the originator (bank) purchases credit protection with credit default swaps (CDS)

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  • I like the bit where you mention the 'Risk-free High Quality Asset' earning interest.

    How did it earn interest exactly? Don't tell me they bought more CDO's with it!

    I'm sure this all looked very smart at the time, the fact is a lot of these things are full of lemons. The only motivation was to keep the whole ponzi scheme going and make sure the bosses got another years worth of mega bonuses.

    Got to hand it to them thought - this was one hell of a scam!

  • The high quality asset part is true, it's not the weak link. I don't disagree with your conclusion, but in order to identify good versus bad securitization (which after all is generally useful), we've got to first understand it. David

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  • So synthetic CDOs expose investors to less risk than normal CDOs?

  • who act as the underwriters?

  • ....likely to default, as they would lose out if this happened

  • Ngopalakrishna, if the bank is exposed to the riskiest piece, it acts as a measure to ensure that the bank (originator) doesn't fill the asset pool with assets that are like

  • Sorry, but it is not clear why the bank will retain the riskiest piece of the whole tranches - the equity/residual tranche!! Could you kindly elaborate pls? thank you!

  • Sorry, but it is not clear why the bank will retain the riskiest piece of the whole tranches - the equity/residual tranche!!

  • Int he video it is mentioned that the investors are payed out of 3 sources of cash flows: 1. cds premium 2. interest on the collateral 3. the collateral itself. How ever, the collateral is only payed out at maturity. So, are the cds premium and the interest on the collateral sufficient to meet obligatiopns of the SPV towards the investors? I can hardly imagine.

  • who would the trustee be ?

  • So basically a SCDO is insurance?

  • Thanks for the explanation! It really helped out!

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