Posts Tagged ‘getting out of debt’

Keep your money in your area of expertise

Monday, October 5, 2009 10:30 Comments Off

Most money managers are astute salespeople. They have slick brochures and charts showing why they are better than the competition. They are not above using guilt and intimidation to keep you with them. They will also influence you to keep your money in their area of expertise. In the current decade, real estate prospects are [...]

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Finances, Currency and Interest Rate Hedges

Saturday, April 25, 2009 13:36 Comments Off

Funding multicurrency and often fixed rate assets in a CRE CDO requires a mechanism to translate foreign currency and to hedge interest rate movements to correspond to with the single-currency, floating rate CRE CDO liability structure. Most issuers have accomplished this through the use of perfect asset swaps. Under a perfect asset swap contract, a [...]

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