While trying to contact a CDO desk late last week, a Loan Market Week staffer was told, "They're all in Scottsdale, Arizona." To which the naïve staffer said, "Oh, at the Asset Securitzation Conference." The bemused person at the other end of the line, responded, "No, playing golf." Believing this was a joke, the reporter went onto the Web Site of the conference and noticed that The Eighth Annual ABS West golf tournament was in fact underway on the Links golf course at the Arizona Biltmore. Sessions had concluded by tee-off.
