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Are there benefits to being naked? The returns and diversification impact of capital structure arbitrage

Giovanni Calice, Maggie Chen, Julian M Williams

The European Journal of Finance, Volume: 19, Issue: 9, Pages: 815 - 840

Swansea University Author: Maggie Chen

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/1351847X.2011.637115

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In a naked credit default swap (CDS) position a party pays an income stream to a seller of protection to swap away default risk on an underlying defaultable security without actually holding this reference instrument. Using mark to market returns on a large cross section of CDS positions, held indep...

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Published in: The European Journal of Finance
ISSN: 1351-847X
Published: 2013
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title Are there benefits to being naked? The returns and diversification impact of capital structure arbitrage
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description In a naked credit default swap (CDS) position a party pays an income stream to a seller of protection to swap away default risk on an underlying defaultable security without actually holding this reference instrument. Using mark to market returns on a large cross section of CDS positions, held independently from their reference entity, we implement a novel test to establish whether their inclusion in an optimised portfolio is replicable by a large set of alternative assets. Overall, we nd signi cant excess returns of over 28% per annum against an optimised benchmark, we speculate that it is these characteristics that could be driving a bubble in the CDS market.
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