VIDEO: Hedge Funds, Credit Derivatives and Subprime Loans
CNBC's Realty Check– January 30, 2007





Janet Tavakoli appeared with CNBC's Diana Olick along with Jim Melcher of Balestra Capital to discuss price deterioration in subprime CDOs. Hedge funds use opportunistic strategies including credit derivatives and shorting the ABX index to profit on over-rated and over-priced subprime backed CDOs.

Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley 2009)

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