Expect[ed] Loss

Here's our two cents worth on the year-end state of the leveraged loan market, and a little insight into the challenges that lie ahead. ...

Ditto our prior article Static Measures for a Dynamic Environment : Moody's is revising its assumptions to reflect the expected stress o...

It is with a touch of disappointment that we read S&P's announcement yesterday that they're downgrading certain leveraged super ...

Back in September Asset-Backed Alert put out an article describing how various banks (Zions Bancorp, National Penn and others) have rearrang...

We came down to sunny southern California for the Opal Financial Group Summit which ended yesterday and thought we'd relay some of what...

The calling of Allianz’s EUR300 million Phenix CFO -- purportedly the first to be liquidated -- augurs poorly for the hedge fund industry, a...

The Problem All hedge fund disclosures are equal, but some investors apparently have more equal transparency than others. Perhaps, for a tou...

J.P.Morgan came out with their September 2008 Home Price Update. The report shows the national average 60+ delinquency rate at a whopping 17...

Leverage (more specifically deleveraging) difficulties have caused more than their fair share of pain of late in the hedge fund world. We...

We're not economists, and certainly not of the Chris Flanagan/Mark Zandi ilk, but thought we'd give it a bash for a change and sha...