Credit default swaps (CDS) - What are they and should investors be worried about them?

Deemed financial weapons of mass destruction by Warren Buffet. Tim Bennett explains what a credit default swap (CDS) is and whether or not investors should be worried about them.
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Is there anyway to view CDS rates for companies and banks without access to a Bloomberg terminal? Thanks in advance!

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You misquote Buffet. IIRC he said derivatives were weapons of mass destruction.

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question 1) what happens to the underlying assets that the bonds usually given on? for instance in 2008 the houses would the ownership of the properties be passed on up the chain to the insurance bank issuing the cds. 2) is there a derivative market for cds, where a third party without owning the bond can pay a premium to the insurance bank for payment if the bonds fail. even if they don't own the bonds. asking as saw somewhere someone say insurance banks sold cds several times over on the same securities like a derivative trade.

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[@fourseasons2349]

Please clarify...is the insuring institution who receives the premium payments insuring the agreed upon value of the bonds because you mentioned that bond values go up and bond values go down. Fed raises interest rates and my bond is valued less as it's yield is less than that which the market is paying today....or are they paying an agreed upon value should the market tank..in other words you pay me a premium of $x on a quarterly basis and I insure that the $1.00 bond will pay out, if defaulted, say by no less than 70 cents on the original face amount of the bond?

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what you are not saying is that an investor can buy cds without having an asset to cover. it's like you can buy insurance on a house that you don't own. in this case, you earn your money when the house is burning, not when the house is well managed. if it's not a weapon of mass destruction, what is it...

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So an INSURER charges a fee for the deal -BUT what assets do they have set aside to cover their obligations? Paper?

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[@addycabTV]

What about 'naked' credit default swaps? Should you be be allowed to insure something you don't own? ---- AIG couldn't pay it's obligations to the investors that were actually trying to insure bonds because AIG had made huge side bets with 3rd parties that were simply betting on failure.

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It's the same as buying puts.

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Do a video on the ringfencing of british banks separating the investment ad retail sides. Also talk about the problems and criticisms that have or could arise.

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Great explanation ! from where can i find the basis points for different swaps, any specefic website ?

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Carenna Willmont its 0.005x10,000,000 which is 50,000

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Where did the find the per country basis points? I was looking for the value assigned to the United States.

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[@brennanhm]

Does the owner of the CDS get to collect the insurance payout if the country is bailed out by the central bank? Because if they get bailed out then the bonds are still good.

[@chuckturnher4986]

Only if the bonds flopped and the premiums were paid-in-full...

[@samsonsoturian6013]

That was the topic of lawsuits in the past. In Greece where they defaulted but returned 50% of bond value, courts ruled CDS providers needed to pay out the other 50%

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which software is used for valuing interest rate options, Credit default swaps, MBS etc?

[@JPJPR]

Incomplete depiction at the beginning. CDS aren't only for Investors, they are also for Investors investing on the original Investors investments liquidity, or more likely against it. That's where the mass destruction comes in. Ballooning Debt Obligations because the Insurers got greedy for more and more basis points without ever thinking too long or hard about the incurred obligations. So if a major former highly rated investment like a nation state - e.g. Greece - threatens to go under and force the Insurers (among them the big banks) to pay out the side bets who were jacked up gigantically in the first place. Because the higher the insured investment the higher the basis point premium the insurers got. They just all bet like idiots and now try to hold Europe hostage by telling everyone the lie that everyone's economy will tank if the incompetent bastards that are those piece of shit banks/insurers go the way of the dodo. And instead of letting the losers go bust, our governments have propped them up by propping up their investments - e.g. Greece. And propping up is just too nice a term for what happened there. Europe collectively fucked Greece and the Greek people up their collective ass by badgering the Greek government into implementing misguided austerity bullshit over sensible reforms. Just so the fat cats at the esteemed financial institutions weren't outed as the fucking frauds they were. They got greedy and our nation states are footing the bill through the EU financial bureaucracy. The only right solution would have been for the European nations to band together and issue securities for the citizen investors and nationalize the banks or better yet let them go bust for the shit they pulled and supplant them with more neutral bureaucracies or more tightly regulated new banks. Yes, Credit Default Swaps can be benign and sensible when done right. But they aren't called weapons of (financial) mass destruction for shits and giggles. Bad video.

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You are missing the important part of collateral insurers have to put out and downgrade of insurers

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who sells single name CDS ?

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Investment bankers

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[@WTFicey]

This whole mess IS essentially Greece's own greed though. Yes, any country that joins the euro essentially gives up their monetary policy and therefore unable to adjust interest rates and other financial variables, however they still have control over their FISCAL policy which is why the euro will eventually fail. ( I give it 1-4 years before failure, more towards 1 if Angela Merkel loses the Germany elections ). Now when it comes to Greece, their culture is to not collect tax (which is absolutely true) - "you would be an idiot to pay your taxes in Greece" (this came from my financial economics professor). So the Greek government have the ability to borrow on the capital (bond) markets using, effectively, Germany's credit card (EURO) and therefore bypassing the 15% they would have been charged on their loans/bonds and now getting charged the 2% that any good, credible country would have been charged like Germany or France. You are correct that the euro is a failure from the begining, however, it isn't because it removed the power from countries to control their own currency. It is because it doesn't control their fiscal policy as well. THE BOTTOM LINE? You need a harmonised monetary, fiscal and banking system and free moment of capital to make the euro work, and sadly, that will never happen.

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[@Primathys]

How does it work when you buy a CDS on a bond you don’t own?

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@MrPhilipc13 I have done a video on just that very topic! See "can ring fencing save the banks". Tim.

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Is the math incorrect bc half a percent of 10 million is $500,000 not $50,000. Right?

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Yes; how exciting the education is in regarding CDS and other financial instruments when it comes to knowing exactly what politicians don't know. Idiots:) Also isn't odd that the public still wastes time voting for their candidate of choice, really?

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