Diverse and sophisticated

In the past few years, originators and arrangers of CDOs have ignored no debt or proxy for debt to act as the underlying assets in a collateralisation, including other CDOs

“The process of increasing sophistication in the CDO market that began last year cannot be reversed,” noted Moody’s in its review of activity in the CDO universe in 2003, noting that much of the new issuance was driven by transactions with a more innovative collateral mix.

Much of the recent product innovation has been aimed largely at increasing the diversification of collateral underlying CDOs, with resecuritisations – or CDOs of ABS – one example of a product that has become increasingly