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Strategic asset allocation is the first step in the investment process for credit portfolios. At this stage, all analyses are from a top-down perspective. In other words, the medium to long-term outlook for credit quality and the future direction of credit spreads is assessed on an aggregate basis, that is, for the credit market as [...]

The third and last type of quantitative credit models that we want to mention briefly are factor models. In contrast to both the structural and reduced-form models, the factor model does not attempt to model default. Rather, linear regression is used to assess the relative richness or cheapness of individual credits. The factor model attributes [...]