Synthetic cdos

CDOs and How They Shaped Global Capital Markets

Chapter 4 is where Tavakoli steps back from mechanics and tells the story of how the CDO market grew. The chapter is titled “CDOs and the Global Capital Markets” and it covers roughly 20 years of history – from the junk bond era of the late 1980s through the explosive synthetic CDO growth of the 2000s to the beginning of the unraveling in 2007.

Total Return Swaps, Synthetic CDOs, and Credit Indexes

The second half of Chapter 3 picks up where the credit default swap discussion ended and covers total return swaps, CDS pricing, synthetic CDO structure, equity TRORS, information asymmetry, pay-as-you-go templates, and the credit indexes that eventually let people bet against the subprime market.