Morgan Stanley Educates On Credit Hedging, Payer Options Reviewed

Morgan Stanley wants institutional investors to be aware of their credit hedging options going into a likely Federal Reserve rate rise, which was defined by former BlackRock and Treasury official Peter Fisher on CNBC this morning as being the most discussed and predicted in history. In reviewing “appropriate” options, the researchers primarily considered SWAPs, providing insight into the bank’s preferred steps to hedge portfolio exposure.

After establishing that the time to hedge, buy an umbrella, is before the sky turns cloudy, the research outlined three primary steps in hedging. The first being defining hedging situations, the second being selection of the hedging method and the third being monitoring of the hedging methods. Morgan Stanley researchers Sivan Mahadevan and Vishwas Patkar...