How did John Paulson profit from the subprime mortgage crisis?
Feb 25, 2011 by In Rainbows 44 | Posted in Investing
John Paulson is said to have been one of the persons to have profited most during subprime mortgage crisis . He's the director of a large hedge fund and apparently listened to Meredith Whitney's predictions of the crash. Can someone explain what his maneuvers
He employed a few strategies, but his biggest was buying Credit Default Swaps (CDS) on various pools of subprime mortgages (called Collateralized Debt Obligations, or CDOs). You can think of CDS as insurance policies on the pools of mortgages. He would
| Feb 25, 2011
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