Oddo & Cie, a French stockbroker and money manager, plans to close three funds totaling 1 billion euros ($1.37 billion), citing the ``unprecedented'' crisis in the U.S. asset-backed securities market.
Oddo said it will wind down the funds within the ``shortest possible time frame'' because of a plunge in prices for collateralized debt obligations, notes backed by other bonds, loans and their derivatives.
The highest level of defaults in 10 years on U.S. mortgages drove the risk premium on corporate bonds in Europe to the widest in at least three years yesterday, based on prices for credit-default swaps. Commerzbank AG, Germany's second-biggest bank by assets, yesterday said it expects to make provisions of about 80 million euros for potential loan losses tied to the U.S. subprime mortgage market, and IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG in Dusseldorf said it was scrapping its earnings forecast as ``massive uncertainty'' threatens access to funding.
``Like many actors, we have tried to revitalize the performance of our funds by investing in CDOs,'' Arnaud Ploix, a spokesman for Paris-based Oddo, said in an interview today. ``Like others, we noticed recent problems with short-term liquidity and were caught out by the subprime dilemma.''
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look at what bzh did off a rumor this morning, the market is scared, fingers poised over the sell button.
Bonddad, thought you might want to know there is now a blog tracking hedge fund implosions, modeled on Aaron Krowne's blog. Here's the address: http://www.obfuscationoracle.blogspot.com/
He's up to number 18 this afternoon. Cheers.
who is going to loan money to Bear from here on out? If they go Chapter 11 on those funds, the creditors are completely screwed up to 17 billion. (total was 18 billion but Bear gave an initial promise of 1.6 billion, that gave out fast...)
can those creditors take the entire cram down ?
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