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Synthetic Collateralized Debt Obligations

Collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) are vehicles used to pool assets and enable investors with different risk / return appetites to participate in a particular tranche of those assets. The underlying assets might include bonds or loans or ABS or a variety of other asset classes. The assets are usually chosen and managed by an asset manager, with fairly strict trading restrictions. One of the largest growth areas has been in deals that use credit default swaps to give an indirect linkage to the underlying portfolio of credit risk. These are known as synthetic CDOs. Synthetic CDOs have experienced huge growth and appear to generally be the preferred choice. Market participants are attracted to the lower cost and ease of execution of synthetic CDOs vs. cash CDOs.

SYNTHETIC CDO MECHANICS

Super senior

Portfolio of credit default swaps

Super AAA AAA rated AA rated A rated BBB rated First loss (NR) Losses allocated from bottom up

Divided into numerous Tranches BB-AAA Super AAA Super senior First loss First loss exposed to any portfolio losses Subordination First loss through AA tranches act as subordination to the AAA tranche

Note: Portfolio tranches shown are not drawn to scale

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