Team Hedge Fund

We thought this was a cautionary tale — but it’s turned into a horror story. All the tranches of this issue, GSAMP-2006 S3, that were originally rated below AAA have defaulted. Two of the three original AAA -rated tranches (French for “slices”) are facing losses of about 90%, and even the “super senior,” safer-than-mere-AAA slice is facing losses of 25%. How could this happen? And what lessons can we take away from it?
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