The assessment of default risk is also critical in the valuation of corporate bonds and credit derivatives such as basket-default swaps. There is an important distinction between default risk under ...
According to the S&P data, personal care products and home furnishing firms posted the highest increases in default risk scored in November. with 0.8 percentage point increases in each industry.
So what's the catch? Since risk cannot be eliminated, only transferred, the catch is that someone else (CLO equity tranches) is holding the default risk. As mentioned above in Figure 3 ...