Smart money calls the bottom of the market

For months the biggest impediment to recovery in the structured credit market has not been investors’ fear of defaults, but their fear of short term mark-to-market losses if CDOs fall further in price. Big asset sales, such as UBS offloading $15bn of US mortgage paper to BlackRock, will do a great deal to restore confidence that there is a realistic bottom to the value of securities and that it may be safe to buy.