Thursday 30 April 2009

Two thirds of a fine horse?

Not really. But the assets in Whistlejacket, the defaulted SIV sponsored by Standard Chartered, were liquidated yesterday, and reached an average price of 67.1 cents on the dollar according to Bloomberg. That means that anything more than 2 to 1 leverage in an off balance sheet funding vehicle is too much...

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