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

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  • 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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Komentáře • 107

  • @stockholmsbakverkse
    @stockholmsbakverkse Před 2 lety +9

    This channel is one of the best on CZcams, making complicated things simple and clear, what a pity the author stopped posting!

  • @mikeea.9274
    @mikeea.9274 Před 3 lety +2

    It's 2021 and I have marathoned almost all your videos.

  • @dineshthonur
    @dineshthonur Před 8 lety

    great help

  • @bobsmith2886
    @bobsmith2886 Před 4 lety +2

    Is there anyway to view CDS rates for companies and banks without access to a Bloomberg terminal? Thanks in advance!

  • @zenastronomy
    @zenastronomy Před rokem

    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.

  • @remitayar7294
    @remitayar7294 Před 9 lety

    great job

  • @jakofozz
    @jakofozz Před 10 lety

    Great video.

  • @TheCasanova2012
    @TheCasanova2012 Před 10 lety

    thank you sir

  • @nwqb17
    @nwqb17 Před 8 lety

    great video

  • @fourseasons2349
    @fourseasons2349 Před 5 lety

    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?

  • @akhilesh718
    @akhilesh718 Před 9 lety

    amazing explanation
    keep it up

  • @jonasdauerbrenner6432

    best finance channl, hands down

  • @frisbee3406
    @frisbee3406 Před 10 lety

    need video about Orange county Citron portfolio, I want to study the case and know how can people lost so much on@interest rate,and could we do better when look back with todays financial instrument.

  • @philipswain4122
    @philipswain4122 Před 5 lety +1

    Very clear explanation. Thanks.

  • @postskeetclarity
    @postskeetclarity Před 2 lety

    This is hitting harder right now

  • @zoeyyyyh
    @zoeyyyyh Před 12 lety

    please make a vd about caps and floors

  • @sHOuT4JoY01
    @sHOuT4JoY01 Před 8 lety +4

    I've looked this concept up a number of times and never seemed to fully understand it, until this video! Thanks a lot.

  • @sk8ormylife
    @sk8ormylife Před 13 lety

    Nice.

  • @ANM1975
    @ANM1975 Před 10 lety

    Any video on Securitization

  • @RogerSmith-yf5ce
    @RogerSmith-yf5ce Před 4 lety

    This chap is a brilliant teacher/explainer.

  • @cindyc6703
    @cindyc6703 Před 11 lety

    Thanks Tim. It explains very clearly about CDS and helps me to study CPA program.

    • @moneycontent2568
      @moneycontent2568 Před 3 lety

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  • @Naushad355
    @Naushad355 Před 6 lety

    Your video to good

  • @davidlecker7460
    @davidlecker7460 Před rokem

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

  • @beckwong23
    @beckwong23 Před 12 lety +2

    great introduction, it really help me to understand more about CDS.
    Good job!

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      @moneycontent2568 Před 3 lety

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  • @zeeshanalikhananwar
    @zeeshanalikhananwar Před 12 lety +2

    you are a top man, really appreciate your work.
    Please keep going on.

  • @supernube5051
    @supernube5051 Před 4 lety +1

    MoneyWeek I've been tying to find a explanation of CDS's in order to help my tiny brain understand ther goings on in the film The Big Short.... and this video has just helped more than any of the many other videos I have watched... excellent.... Thank you

  • @elainetrakkand7586
    @elainetrakkand7586 Před 11 lety +1

    wow so cool

  • @ThickCutBacon
    @ThickCutBacon Před 10 lety

    Fantastic video. Thank you for the insight!

  • @christopherdunn7727
    @christopherdunn7727 Před 11 lety

    Thanks! Big help!

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  • @fr4nky4fingers
    @fr4nky4fingers Před 10 lety

    Thank you for the video. The additional information about the current market situation made it particularly interesting to watch.

  • @narendrananbazhagan8767

    Thank you, Sir. (For this very simple - easy to follow videos about a complicated subject).

  • @travelbug1988
    @travelbug1988 Před 11 lety +1

    Thanks for the clearing this out for me. This has been very helpful giving light to a mysterious concept.

  • @A-Kaila
    @A-Kaila Před 3 lety +1

    My brother invited me to watch 'the big short' I thought, I'd get it eventually but.. nowhere near. This has been an amazingly clear explanation, thank you, i'm feeling a whole lot less stupid now then i did a couple of hours ago.

  • @abhinavitsmebellamy
    @abhinavitsmebellamy Před 4 lety

    Thank you, for this!!

  • @Ritoned1
    @Ritoned1 Před 7 lety +7

    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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    • @chuckturnher4986
      @chuckturnher4986 Před 7 lety

      My friend,we should get you a job @ JPMorgan Chase National Association or Bank of America because... ... That's exactly how those two companies carry it... from a RMBS Operational standpoint. Have a good one.

  • @addycabTV
    @addycabTV Před 12 lety

    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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    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Před rokem

      It's the same as buying puts.

  • @trangmon
    @trangmon Před 8 lety

    Thank you! The video series are so helpful and well explained

  • @HackMac74
    @HackMac74 Před 8 lety

    very well explained!

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Před rokem

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

  • @MrPhilipc13
    @MrPhilipc13 Před 13 lety

    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.

  • @boss133749
    @boss133749 Před 7 lety

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

    • @chuckturnher4986
      @chuckturnher4986 Před 7 lety

      The bp's represent the bookies "Line"... the line is subject to change, game to game... it's all gambling until, the players learn how the game is played... There's a ridiculous and diabolically simplistic method for making millions of dollars, right here in this short video... Read Henri DE's comment and my answer... Stay UP.

  • @MoneyWeekVideos
    @MoneyWeekVideos Před 12 lety +7

    For anyone looking for related topics try my videos on "what is a swap" "what are futures" and "what are options and covered warrants". Tim.

  • @VSader
    @VSader Před 3 lety

    Can you start posting again, man?

  • @penso87
    @penso87 Před 11 lety +1

    Thanks!! Helpful :)

  • @jaygovera
    @jaygovera Před 10 lety

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

  • @dr.faustus4144
    @dr.faustus4144 Před 8 lety +1

    this is not the guy from the inbetweeners, right? :D

  • @ANM1975
    @ANM1975 Před 10 lety

    Need a video on MBS

  • @saksham845
    @saksham845 Před 8 lety +1

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

  • @Tattvashe
    @Tattvashe Před 10 lety

    Tim, amazing work done by you in all the videos :) ... GBU .. Could you tell me if I can find these videos converted & made into notes as well. I'm a trainer and that would help me :)

  • @brennanhm
    @brennanhm Před 7 lety

    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
      @chuckturnher4986 Před 7 lety

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

    • @samsonsoturian6013
      @samsonsoturian6013 Před rokem +1

      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%

  • @rudybonefas5186
    @rudybonefas5186 Před rokem

    1400 basis points is 14% no t 1.4%

  • @lanemathews8523
    @lanemathews8523 Před 4 lety

    Fuck dude the weed has me in deep tonight. Truly scary shit lol straight spellcasting

  • @Faraz70
    @Faraz70 Před 10 lety +1

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

  • @JPJPR
    @JPJPR Před 7 lety +2

    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.

  • @azlynazeem
    @azlynazeem Před 10 lety +27

    Brilliant explanation. Thanks so much. May god bless you with a 1000 children.

    • @meisterthea
      @meisterthea Před 5 lety +18

      That would be more like a curse!

  • @dogoku
    @dogoku Před 7 lety

    Blaming this whole problem on Greece's own greed/stupidity is wrong, given the shitty situation they were put in when joining the euro, along with all the other countries in Europe that are currently at risk. The euro was a failure from the beginning, because it removed the power from countries to control their own currency to save their economy. This is exactly what happened to Greece which now became the scapegoat for this whole mess. Mark Blyth explains this very well in his talks "Austerity - History of a dangerous idea" and "Global Trumpism"

    • @WTFicey
      @WTFicey Před 7 lety +3

      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.

  • @Desp0
    @Desp0 Před 7 lety

    who sells single name CDS ?

  • @mihaelapantaleeva482
    @mihaelapantaleeva482 Před 8 lety +10

    I wish you were my lecturer. All of your videos are so well explained - simple and to the point. Thank you, great job

  • @togoni
    @togoni Před 2 lety

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

  • @zenastronomy
    @zenastronomy Před rokem +2

    credit default swaps = how to bypass responsibility and create systematic moral hazard

  • @Primathys
    @Primathys Před 4 lety

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

  • @cherry2524
    @cherry2524 Před 8 lety

    Rb

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      @moneycontent2568 Před 3 lety

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  • @MoneyWeekVideos
    @MoneyWeekVideos Před 13 lety

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

  • @Tanyacooks410
    @Tanyacooks410 Před 2 lety

    Russia default incoming here we go again 2008!

  • @carennawillmont3706
    @carennawillmont3706 Před 10 lety

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

    • @DewTime
      @DewTime Před 6 lety +1

      No, half a percent of 10 million is indeed $50,000.

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  • @robertmccuiston1535
    @robertmccuiston1535 Před 9 lety

    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?