Word: bondses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Look under the hood of a bond called Jupiter High-Grade CDO V, and you can understand why we're in trouble. Bankers from the 1970s, when mortgage bonds first took off, would hardly recognize Jupiter. Unlike a traditional bond, Jupiter's underwriter does not buy people's mortgages, collect...
The valuation of a mortgage bond like Jupiter is a white-hot argument. Most Wall Streeters agree that a large number of such bonds--amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps trillions--are worth far less than their stated, or par, value. How much less is central to resolving...
A look at Jupiter shows how hard that can be. Jupiter owns 223 other mortgage bonds. One of those bonds is Mantoloking, which in turn owns 126 other bonds. Not done yet. Mantoloking's mortgage bonds own hundreds of other mortgage bonds. Those mortgage bonds are then all made up...
A recent Goldman Sachs report estimates that most investment banks believe bonds like Jupiter are worth 40% less than what was paid for them, or 60¢ for every dollar invested. But given how many of Jupiter's bonds have gone bad, you could just as easily guess that it is...
"Banks thought they could buy these bonds and lock them in their closet," says Rohan Douglas, chief executive of Quantifi, which helps investors and banks evaluate the riskiness of their portfolios. "Now those doors are being pried open, and what we are finding is one big mess."