{"id":8359,"date":"2008-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"cds-counterparty-risks-serious-threat-to-global-financial-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/cds-counterparty-risks-serious-threat-to-global-financial-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"CDS counterparty risks serious threat to global financial markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge Funds Review Magazine &#8211; Greenwich Associates conducted a study of 146 institutions in North America and Europe to determine how fears of counterparty risk were affecting institutional investment and trading strategies. <\/p>\n<p>The study revealed that 37% of participating institutions have over $50 billion in assets under management. A further 18% have more than $100 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Survey respondents were divided between 32 hedge funds, 114 banks and traditional long-only investors, with the majority domiciled in the US (70%) and 30% in Canada and Europe. <\/p>\n<p>Among US institutions, 85% sees credit default swap (CDS) counterparty risk as a serious threat to global markets. Institutions in Europe are slightly more sanguine; with just over 55% describing CDS counterparty risk as a significant danger. <\/p>\n<p>Over 905 of hedge funds, however, said they see counterparty risk relative to credit default swaps as posing a significant threat to global markets. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgefundsreview.com\/public\/showPage.html?page=809656\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge Funds Review Magazine &#8211; Greenwich Associates conducted a study of 146 institutions in North America and Europe to determine how fears of counterparty risk were affecting institutional investment and trading strategies. The study revealed that 37% of participating institutions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1024,572,84,2110,2112,803,2111,1191,2114,866,131,83,2115,2113,941],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-1-million","tag-allegations","tag-beta","tag-conspiracy","tag-critical-challenges","tag-external-managers","tag-financial-services-firms","tag-fund-groups","tag-indexes","tag-levies","tag-loans","tag-medallion","tag-methodology","tag-regional-capital","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}