Friday, June 12, 2009

Soros: Credit Default Swaps Should be "Banned", are "Truly Toxic", "Like Buying Life Insurance on Someone Else's Life and Owning a License to Kill”


Billionaire investor George Soros told a group of bankers who trade credit default swaps:

Some derivatives ought not to be allowed to be traded at all. I have in mind credit default swaps. The more I've heard about them, the more I've realized they're truly toxic...

CDS are instruments of destruction which ought to be outlawed ...

People buy a CDS not because they expect an eventual default but because they expect them to appreciate in response to adverse developments...

It's like buying life insurance on someone else's life and owning a license to kill.


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  1. AnonymousJune 13, 2009 at 7:45 AM

    so this completely rules out any straightforward portfolio manager who is simply looking to hedge out their credit exposure...

    yes there is a risk the hedger owning CDS would wish to see the underlying asset default, but until we see massive statistical evidence of this, can soros et al keep such simplified flag-waving for something more harmful to society.. besides a CDS holder cannot determine recovery rates and pays a premium based on market dynamics

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  2. Hot_Dog_FriendJune 13, 2009 at 10:38 PM

    surly this bastard sold already all his CDS's....NWO Scum

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