Securitization & Structured Finance Education & Securitisation

Strategic Planning

Structured Finance: Short Mezz Long CDS


Tavakoli Structured Finance®
(TSF®) provides expert experience and knowledge on how to make money with assets and derivatives as the U.S. and Europe try to reinflate deflating economies. TSF develops forward-looking strategies for clients considering mergers, sales, or acquisitions. TSF also provides strategies for credit derivatives, securitization, traditional derivatives, and portfolio restructuring.



 


Structured Finance

  • Portfolio Restructuring
  • Credit derivatives and total return swaps: special securitization issues
  • Special purpose entities (SPEs): venues, tax, accounting, documentation, disguised loans, money siphons, fraud, and other abuses
  • Designing fair value structures
  • Risks to the trading books and balance sheet
  • Downgrades and distressed CDOs
  • Leveraged Finance issues

Credit Derivatives

  • Expanding trading counterparties and investors
  • Expanding and Streamlining Trading
  • Credit default swaps, total return swaps, and credit-linked notes
  • Pricing and market data
  • Market maker overview
  • Relative value
  • Investor driven structures
  • Hedging credit risk
  • Balance sheet optimization
  • Language issues in various structures
  • Regulatory, total capital, legal, documentation, and market issues
  • U.S. versus Europe – cross border issues
  • Asian issues
  • Contingent claims
  • Securitization, structured finance, and credit derivatives
  • Insurance versus credit derivatives
  • Total return swaps, financing and toxic convertibles
  • Hedge funds and alternative investors
  • Future developments in language issues
  • Portfolio swaps and synthetic collateralized debt obligations
  • Future developments

Janet Tavakoli, President: jt@tavakolistructuredfinance.com Tel: (312) 540-0243
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