Question regarding Synthetic CDO economic, regarding, advantages, all

draz

Hi all,
I have just covered the asset-backed securities reading and get some confusions on Synthetic CDO. Please give some help.
1. What is the role of senior section? There’s no funding obtained from using debt obligations to senior section as I know.
2. Why does the notional amount in credit-default swap have to be equal to the amount of senior section?
3. One of the economic advantages (arbitrage-driven) in using CDO is that “there are opportunities to be able to effectively buy the assetsincluded in the reference assets via credit-default swap than buy the asset directly” = Who’s actually buying these asset?
4. I don’t understand how banks can use CDO to eliminate loan instruments from their balance sheet by using credit-default swap because proceeds from issuing debt obligations to junior note holders are used to buy high-quality debts, not the banks’ debts as in other structured financial products. Is the reference asset what the bank is holding?
It seems like I’m lost when getting into this section. Please help me. Thank you very much.

malbec

Hi all, I’m still waiting for help. I really need some. Thank you.