Investment firm. Fixed Income Hedge Funds

Fixed income strategies include the hedged strategies that invest in bonds and other fixed income instruments. Fixed income strategies include fixed income arbitrage, mortgage funds, various default-risk funds, and emerging markets debt funds.

continue reading

This week in bail-out euphamisms: super fund, support fund, super conduit

SIVs, SPIVs, conduits, however one calls them, are simply off balance sheet investing entities that allow banks to operate outside of government regulations. The concept is a simple get-rich-quick arbitrage model that is like cat-nip to Wall Street investment banks: Fund purchases of long-term fixed income securities with lower rate commercial pape

continue reading