Goldman's AI Loan Short
Category: Private Credit Research
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Goldman Sachs is structuring total return swaps to short investment-grade AI-related credit — the first institutional hedge against a $1.5 trillion private-credit AI buildout. Inside the two AI-credit clusters, the TRS-vs-CDS mechanics, and the mark-timing gap that makes this trade work.
Read the full Icarus Asia research note at https://icarusasia.com/research/gs-ai-loan-short.
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