World Bank launches distressed assets programme - Risk.net: "World Bank launches distressed assets programme"
This program looks more like the Treasury PPIP/TARP and has copied the features of those, notably the "Public/Private" partnership dimension. Their is no discussion of the Equity/Debt distribution or source of the funds.
It is regrettable no one has thought about being a market maker on the distressed assets traded at refined levels of granularity as we proposed.
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Showing posts with label PPIF. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Public-Private Investment Program Almost Ready to Begin - NYTimes.com
Public-Private Investment Program Almost Ready to Begin - NYTimes.com
This article has some important numbers to bear in mind:
"The International Monetary Fund estimated last week that financial institutions worldwide still held about $2.8 trillion in troubled mortgages and securities, and that they had booked losses on less than half that amount so far. A big share of those assets is in American banks.
The Public-Private Investment Program would acquire only a tiny fraction of those assets, amounting to $12 billion. All told, the Treasury said, the five firms have thus far raised $3.07 billion in private equity. The Treasury will match that amount, dollar for dollar, with its own equity investment. It will also provide up to $6.13 billion in financing guaranteed by the government.
In effect, the money-management firms will be able to buy about $12 billion in troubled assets. The firms will split any profits evenly with the Treasury, but taxpayers would ultimately be on the hook if the investments lost money."
Finally it looks like it is going to start at long last along the lines that we outlined in The Investment Professional
http://www.theinvestmentprofessional.com/vol_2_no_3/abstract-bics.html
See also my knol articles:
1. Fair Value Pricing, Government Market Making and PPIP
2. Estimating Costs for PPIP Assets in a Market Making Framework & BICs
This article has some important numbers to bear in mind:
"The International Monetary Fund estimated last week that financial institutions worldwide still held about $2.8 trillion in troubled mortgages and securities, and that they had booked losses on less than half that amount so far. A big share of those assets is in American banks.
The Public-Private Investment Program would acquire only a tiny fraction of those assets, amounting to $12 billion. All told, the Treasury said, the five firms have thus far raised $3.07 billion in private equity. The Treasury will match that amount, dollar for dollar, with its own equity investment. It will also provide up to $6.13 billion in financing guaranteed by the government.
In effect, the money-management firms will be able to buy about $12 billion in troubled assets. The firms will split any profits evenly with the Treasury, but taxpayers would ultimately be on the hook if the investments lost money."
Finally it looks like it is going to start at long last along the lines that we outlined in The Investment Professional
http://www.theinvestmentprofessional.com/vol_2_no_3/abstract-bics.html
See also my knol articles:
1. Fair Value Pricing, Government Market Making and PPIP
2. Estimating Costs for PPIP Assets in a Market Making Framework & BICs
Friday, June 5, 2009
Fair Value Pricing, Government Market Making and PPIP - a knol by Phil Kongtcheu
I have just received notice from Prof. Zia Haqq, Conference Manger that an enhanced version of this paper Fair Value Pricing, Government Market Making and PPIP - a knol by Phil Kongtcheu, which includes the continuation paper http://knol.google.com/k/phil-kongtcheu/estimating-costs-for-ppip-assets-in-a/24v2kgtuvzk2v/4 has been accepted for presentation at the conference "Heterogeneous nations and Globalized Financial Markets: New Challenges" which will be held at Imperial College in London July 9-10,2009. www.worldbizconference.com. I submitted the paper without really thinking too much about it and now I am not sure how I can manage to participate even though I really would like to...
The paper contains a more systematic analysis of the subsidies of the govt plan for investors, as well as the pitfalls of the reasoning systematized under the term "fallacy of expectations based risk management"
The paper contains a more systematic analysis of the subsidies of the govt plan for investors, as well as the pitfalls of the reasoning systematized under the term "fallacy of expectations based risk management"
Friday, May 22, 2009
FT.com / Columnists / GillianTett - Why public private plan has bankers squirming
FT.com / Columnists / GillianTett - Why public private plan has bankers squirming
Indeed it is unclear that participation is such a free lunch.
Indeed it is unclear that participation is such a free lunch.
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