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collateralized debt obligation

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noun

  1.  CDO.  a debt security collateralized by a number of debt obligations including loans and bonds of different credit quality and maturity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Q: Can you explain, in 25 words, what a synthetic collateralized debt obligation is?

From Washington Post Dec. 22, 2015

Who wants to explain in a very simple way what a synthetic collateralized debt obligation is?

From New York Times Nov. 24, 2015

The SEC also said Tourre misled ACA Capital Holdings, the company brought in to select assets linked to Abacus, into believing Paulson would be an equity investor in the $2 billion synthetic collateralized debt obligation offering.

From Washington Post Jul. 30, 2013

The deal at issue in the Tourre case, a synthetic collateralized debt obligation, or CDO, cost investors $1 billion but allowed Paulson & Co., a Goldman Sachs client, to profit, according to the SEC.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 18, 2013

In the process, Goldman Sachs created a security so opaque and complex that it would remain forever misunderstood by investors and rating agencies: the synthetic subprime mortgage bond–backed CDO, or collateralized debt obligation.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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