CDO SURVEY UNDER WAY
Lipper HedgeWorld.com - MAY 19, 2006
by Susan Baretto - Senior Financial Correspondent

By popular demand, Janet Tavakoli is completing an industry survey on the management and best practices related to the offering of collateralized debt obligations.

Ms. Tavakoli said that other industry surveys neglect to ask investors what they are looking for in a CDO manager, which might be a hedge fund, investment bank or a sub-group within a bank that manages CDO portfolios. The response she's gotten to her survey so far has been huge, she added.

All the information collected will be considered confidential, Ms. Tavakoli said, and will be gathered from investors, arrangers, issuers and managers of CDOs. The summary report is targeted for release to Tavakoli Structured Finance clients and survey participants by October.


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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).

Clients of Tavakoli Structured Finance have the benefit of proprietary consultation, which is not available in any other paid or public forum. Clients also commission proprietary research and analysis.

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