{"id":2346,"date":"2019-10-29T14:28:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T18:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2022-03-09T10:24:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:24:26","slug":"credit-default-swap-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/credit-default-swap-example\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Credit Default Swap Examples: Bet Against the Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have heard of credit default swaps, but the underlying concept can be hard to understand. What&#8217;s a good credit-default-swap example?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A credit default swap is an insurance policy on a bond<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover two credit-default-swap examples that show how these policies work and the role they played in the 2008 financial crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Credit Default Swap<\/strong> Examples<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A credit default swap functions as an insurance policy on a bond<\/strong>. Like most insurance policies, the seller receives regular premium payments for a fixed term, roughly the same as an auto or home insurance policy might work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credit Default Swap Example #1: GE Bonds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, if you purchased credit default swaps on $100 million of GE bonds, you might pay $200,000 per year for 10 years. Thus, your losses would be capped at $2 million. But if GE defaulted on those bonds, <strong>your payout could be up to $100 million: 50 times what you initially put down<\/strong>. It was a classic asymmetric bet: fixed losses, but potential winnings many multiples over that amount.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/aUsiOV9RBEvD_1W5naPLRRiX2iloyTRUnmWfbJQjQJm1XpiGXAeBFe4Skl-PgjEKIMox40UClwRF8xeL-3e0wh0CzXp2xdzK1ApHTOtvXZl1bMkq8wL9hBKLhqOFKptJHPz8h17U\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Credit Default Swap Example #2: Fire Insurance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading up to the 2007-2008 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/us-housing-shortage\/\">housing crisis<\/a>, a few maverick investors saw that the housing boom wasn&#8217;t sustainable&#8211;it was bound to crash. So they wanted to bet against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/current-housing-market\/\">housing market<\/a> to make a profit when it crashed. To do this, they needed to create credit default swaps for the housing market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was like this group had found a way to purchase dirt-cheap fire insurance coverage on a house that they knew was going to be engulfed in flames the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Burry Creates Credit Default Swaps for the Housing Market<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/dr-michael-burry\/\">Dr. Michael Burry<\/a> was one of these maverick investors. <strong>Burry saw that <em>now <\/em>was the time to act.<\/strong> Once borrowers started getting hit with higher interest rates (in roughly two years), <strong>there would be a wave of defaults that would bring the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/mortgage-bond-market\/\">mortgage bond market<\/a> to its knees.<\/strong> Once that started happening, lots of investors would be desperate to purchase insurance on the bonds they\u2019d invested in\u2014and the only way they would be able to do this would be through the credit default swaps that Burry would own.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he couldn\u2019t wait <em>too <\/em>long to buy the swaps. Once the mortgage market started to crumble, the cost of purchasing insurance on subprime <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-are-mortgage-backed-securities\/\">mortgage-backed securities<\/a> (credit default swaps) would skyrocket, making his trade unfeasible.<strong> Timing was key\u2014he needed to corner the market on credit default swaps before the rest of Wall Street caught on<\/strong>, while the swaps could still be had on the cheap.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was a hitch in his plan: there <em>were <\/em>no credit default swaps for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/what-is-a-subprime-mortgage\/\">subprime mortgage<\/a> bonds. The banks would have to create them. Furthermore, most of the big firms that <em>would <\/em>be willing to create them might run into solvency issues and be unable to actually <em>pay <\/em>Burry the returns on his swaps if his catastrophic predictions were accurate. They were too exposed to subprime.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2005, only Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs expressed any interest. Burry hammered out a deal with them to establish a pay-as-you-go contract, ensuring payment as individual bonds failed. <strong>In May 2005, he purchased $60 million in swaps from Deutsche Bank<\/strong>, $10 million apiece on six separate bonds. Burry hand-picked these bonds after having read the prospectuses, seeing that <strong>they were composed of the dodgiest, most questionable subprime loans.<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But within months, the market was starting to see the wisdom of Burry\u2019s move. Before the end of 2005, representatives from the trading desks at Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanley were asking Burry to sell back the credit default swaps he\u2019d purchased\u2014at very generous prices. Their sudden interest in credit default swaps for housing market loan bundles, which he\u2019d helped them create mere months before, could only mean one thing\u2014<strong>the underlying mortgages were starting to fail.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A Failed Bet?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>To investors who started to buy credit default swaps after Burry, it was as though they\u2019d bought cheap fire insurance on a house that was already on fire. It <em>shouldn\u2019t <\/em>have been this easy\u2014<strong>their swaps were worth <em>far <\/em>more than they\u2019d been purchased for<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a while, it didn&#8217;t seem like purchasing credit default swaps on mortgage bundles would pay off. Burry was baffled by how the market was behaving. The data from the mortgage servicers kept getting worse and worse as 2006 turned to 2007 (and the teaser rates expired). The loans were faltering at higher and higher rates, yet the price of insuring the bonds composed of these loans kept falling. <strong>It was as if a fire insurance policy on a house had become cheaper <em>after <\/em>the house was on fire<\/strong>. The market wasn&#8217;t reacting as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the fall did come. When everyone realized the house was on fire (the housing market was collapsing), investors who had bought fire insurance (credit default swaps) got payouts in the millions of dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard of credit default swaps, but the underlying concept can be hard to understand. What&#8217;s a good credit-default-swap example? A credit default swap is an insurance policy on a bond. 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