{"id":3833,"date":"2012-03-17T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T02:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2012-03-17T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T02:22:20","slug":"credit-default-swaps-are-insurance-products-its-time-we-regulated-them-as-such-the-big-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/17\/credit-default-swaps-are-insurance-products-its-time-we-regulated-them-as-such-the-big-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit default swaps are insurance products. It\u2019s time we regulated them as such. | The Big Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

…The law created a unique class of financial instruments [credit default swaps or “CDS”] that was neither fish nor fowl: It trades like a financial product but is not a security; it is designed to hedge future prices but is not a futures contract; it pays off in the event of a specific loss-causing event but is not an insurance policy.<\/p>\n

Given these enormous exemptions from the usual rules that govern financial products, you can guess what happened with the swaps. A very specific set of economic behaviors emerged: Companies that wrote insurance typically set aside reserves for expected risk of loss and payout. When it came to swaps, the companies that underwrote them had no such obligation.<\/p>\n

This had enormous repercussions. The biggest underwriter of default swaps was AIG, the world\u2019s largest insurer. Without that reserve-requirement limitation, it was free to underwrite as many swaps as it could print. And that was just what it did: AIG\u2019s Financial Products unit underwrote more than $3 trillion worth of derivatives, with precisely zero dollars reserved for paying any potential claim.<\/p>\n

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…The law created a unique class of financial instruments [credit default swaps or “CDS”] that was neither fish nor fowl: It trades like a financial product but is not a security; it is designed to hedge future prices but is not a futures contract; it pays off in the event of a specific loss-causing event … <\/p>\n

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