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Comparing credit indices: are CDS indices a better investment than corporate bonds?

May 2021

Credit default swap (CDS) indices, such as the iTraxx and CDX families, have grown considerably in volumes since their inception in the early 2000s. In this paper we use more than 15 years of data to assess how successful using the most liquid CDS indices has been to take long risk exposure to credit markets.

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