Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Death Derivatives: MarketSniper@SOH

I have been a regular though at times inconsistent participant at the Slope of Hope, a trading community bar none - from many different perspectives - insight, intelligence, honesty, and well a whole lot of humorous goings on as well.  There are several 'senior' participants, as traders and life learners - and for me MarketSniper is included in that category.  His views on trading make sense to me as do many other words of wisdom he espouses.  Today was no different - excerpt from one of today's commentary's.  Thanks MS.  and Thanks Tim Knight @ Slope of Hope.



The Lowdown on "Death Derivatives"

After betting trillions on everything from liar loans to mortgages that never should have been issued in the first place, the big banks are back and they're betting on death - yours and mine.

It seems that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM), Deutsche Bank AG (NYSE: DB) and others now want to help securitize "longevity risk" through a newly created derivatives market.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the deal. The banks want to collect billions in fees from pension funds and other institutions by issuing insurance that will manage the risks associated with living longer than the financial planners planned.

What Wall Street is proposing is to package up the fees from these instruments into bonds that are then securitized and sold to investors via a secondary marketplace the banks themselves will effectively create - a "death derivatives" market.

You might think this is farfetched, but the idea is actually far enough along that several financial institutions have already created mortality -rate indices that will be used to price and trade these death instruments.

I got a death derivative for these phukers..called a hangman's noose...Say these turds get on the wrong side of the trade. what are they going to do? Go partners with da boyz and start putting out hits? 
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