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A number of questions remained unanswered with respect to the regulation of large financial institutions after the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-08. Some pressing issues have resurfaced in the context of the recent interest rate swap scandals. These events provided the opportunity to...
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This study analyzes the loss potential arising from investments into CDS for a sample of large U.S. and German mutual funds. Further, it investigates whether the comments funds make on CDS use in periodic fund reports are consistent with the disclosed CDS holdings. For several funds in the U.S.,...
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.S. funds have greater discretion to undervalue derivative exposure compared to German funds. All analyses of this study reveal … that under existing derivative and leverage regulation, funds in both countries are able to increase risk by using …
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.S. funds have greater discretion to undervalue derivative exposure compared to German funds. All analyses of this study reveal … that under existing derivative and leverage regulation, funds in both countries are able to increase risk by using …
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This study analyzes the loss potential arising from investments into CDS for a sample of large U.S. and German mutual funds. Further, it investigates whether the comments funds make on CDS use in periodic fund reports are consistent with the disclosed CDS holdings. For several funds in the U.S.,...
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This study provides a comprehensive overview of the use of credit default swaps by U.S. corporate bond funds and analyzes in detail whether certain characteristics of managers, in addition to the fundamentals of a fund, determine how their use these credit derivatives. Results suggest that a...
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This study provides a comprehensive overview of the use of credit default swaps by U.S. corporate bond funds and analyzes in detail whether certain characteristics of managers, in addition to the fundamentals of a fund, determine how their use these credit derivatives. Results suggest that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010503878
Utilizing new SEC data enabling us to compute performance of mutual funds' derivative positions, we study how funds use … derivatives are used for hedging, we find most active equity derivative using funds buy index derivatives to amplify market … long positions and were slow to undertake short exposure derivative positions, so that they experienced similarly large …
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