April 9, 2020· 41 min
Here’s What’s Happening With Those Korean Structured Notes That Bet Against Market Volatility
Orality
Model
64%
Mixed oral/literate (blogs, casual essays)
Speaker Breakdown
HostTracy Alloway(1,496 words)
M:28%
HostJoe Weisenthal(867 words)
M:28%
GuestBenn Eifert(4,603 words)
M:28%
Oral Indicators
Agonistic49%
literally, completely, very
Engagement64%
you, our, your
Memory Aids100%
listen, now, so
Repetition100%
know (184x), what (47x), market (44x)
Parallelism100%
And I'm Tracy Alloway...., And now we're sort of seeing t..., So there's one in particular w...
Sound Patterns76%
56 question(s), alliteration: "markets move", alliteration: "barclays brief"
Formulaic Phrases5%
you know what, i mean
Literate Indicators
Hedging11%
quite, somewhat, might
Passive Voice10%
was premised, was linked, are called
Abstract Nouns15%
investment, recommendation, stability
Subordination11%
although, unless, therefore
Sentence Length55%
Avg: 18.7 words/sentence
Word Complexity46%
investment, analyze, anticipate
Academic Markers0%
Impersonal Style36%
473 personal pronouns found
Descriptive Style100%
literally, completely, lately
Description
Earlier this year on Odd Lots, we did an episode about Korean structured investment products that were sold to retail investors, whose performance was tied to various market indices around the world. Crucially, those payouts were premised on there not being a major crash in those world markets. Obviously, we’ve seen quite the crash. So, for this week’s episode, we’ve gone back to Benn Eifert, the CIO of QVR Advisors, to check out the state of them now. And we also talk, more broadly, about the extreme volatility we’ve seen around the world, and what drove that, and whether or not we’ve seen the worst. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.