Sentences with phrase «bet against those securities»

And there's not a ready investment available that would allow one to bet against securities backed by student loans — no index like the one that hedge fund managers depicted in «The Big Short» used to bet against mortgages before the crisis.

Citi traders bet against these securities and made money even though their investors would lose money.

Citi employees created the deals, they created the packages and the marketing materials and then actively marketed those to their investors and they made $ 160 Million betting against the security.

Not exact matches

By allocating your investments between the Security Bucket and the Risk Bucket, you hedge your bets against market volatility, which is unavoidable.

This causes a false sense of security for bettors and can create excellent value betting against the nation's top ranked teams.

If she is right, Henning certainly chose an original route to job security: He invited the authorities into his locker room, told the world that his players were betting against themselves and got summarily thumped by Notre Dame.

The rest are products known as leveraged ETFs, which use borrowed money and / or derivative securities to amplify investment returns, or to bet against the index.

In related news, an April 15 MarketWatch piece says, «A Senate subcommittee has accused Goldman Sachs of selling poor quality mortgage securities it bet against and is pushing the Justice Department to investigate Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein's testimony before Congress.

Paulson became world - famous in 2007 by shorting the US housing market, as he foresaw the subprime mortgage crisis and bet against mortgage backed securities by investing in credit default swaps.

It costs about 3 percent a year to short BBB - rated securities and 5 percent to bet against BB notes, plus an upfront fee to put on the trade.

With bad news piling up for anchor chains like Macy's and J.C. Penney, bearish bets against commercial mortgage - backed securities are growing.

Goldman Sachs is agreeing to pay out $ 550 Million to settle claims that they did not tell their clients that they were betting against some of the mortgage securities.