SIVs: Could you survive a financial collapse?

Michael Ehrlich; Asokan Anandarajan

doi:10.1002/jcaf.20399

SIVs: Could you survive a financial collapse?

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The newspapers are suddenly full of worries about structured investment vehicles (SIVs). These are huge, risky investment instruments used by large banks and hedge funds. But fund managers of major companies have invested in money markets, which in turn—unknown to the company fund managers—have invested in the risky SIVs. Any major collapse of the SIVs could spread financial panic. So what are corporate managers to do? Are there strategies to avoid financial disaster? And what questions should auditors ask right now?

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	27-35
Number of pages	9
Journal	Journal of Corporate Accounting and Finance
Volume	19
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/jcaf.20399
State	Published - May 1 2008

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Accounting
Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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SIVs: Could you survive a financial collapse?

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