Difficult risks and capital models
2014
Early in the year, the firm participated in some securitised AAA investments which exploited market anomalies to provide yields closer to those on junk bonds. The capital model had been based on the portfolio prior to this participation. The participation turned out to be disastrous, and virtually all the investment had to be written off following an avalanche of unforeseen defaults in the underlying assets.
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