Given the pounding they have received for nearly two years now, structured finance investors could be forgiven for seeing their glass as half empty rather than half full. At many points it seemed as if there was no floor low enough for these securities – and just when it appeared that valuations could not fall any further – they did. In late May, however, they could have been forgiven for thinking that they had just woken up from a bad dream: a portfolio of ABS and CDO securities was put up for sale and not only were investors falling...
