Structured Products

Expanding Frontiers: An Alternative Investments & Machine Learning Podcast

This episode introduces structured products, explaining their creation from existing assets to meet specific investor needs regarding risk, tax, and liquidity. It covers various types, including equity-linked products, and the wrappers used to legally present them, detailing their potential tax effects. We discuss mortgage-backed securities (MBS), including residential (RMBS) and commercial (CMBS), along with the critical aspect of prepayment risk. We then examine more complex structured products like collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), outlining their tranching and risk distribution, and relating mezzanine tranches to option collars and spreads. Finally, we addresses valuation techniques, the use of payoff diagrams, investor motivations for using these products, and the recent availability of liquid structured products in ETF form.

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