2007-10-22blogspot.com

"What this means is that, absent a functioning secondary market, holders resort to mark-to-model to price their portfolios; since the cash flows are still unchanged for the AA-AAA tranches, models come up with high valuations. This explains why all concerned (banks, brokers and presumably hedge funds) took such relatively small write-offs on their CDO positions. But it also explains why holders of large positions in supposedly high quality bonds are in such a hurry to form the Super-SIV and get 'em off their balance sheets (but apparently no one else is biting). Because..."



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