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You can't sell your pi coins in the pi network app. because it is not listed yet on any exchange.
The only way you can sell is by trading your pi coins with an investor (a person looking forward to hold massive amounts of pi coins before mainnet launch) .
You don't need to meet the investor directly all the trades are done with a pi vendor/merchant (a person that buys the pi coins from miners and resell it to investors)
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When will I be able to sell my Pi coins?
Pi open mainnet is in 3years time that is 2026. So if you can't wait till then you can still sell your pi coins to Chinese investors looking forward to hold massive amounts of pi coins before mainnet launch in 2026.
You can't meet the investors directly you have to go through their vendors.
A pi vendor is someone who buys pi coins from miners and resell them to investors.
I have a vendor I sell pi coins to and I and my friends have sold more than 10k coins to him.feel free to telegram him if you want to sell.
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Pi coins is not launched yet in any exchange 💱 this means it's not swappable, the current pi displaying on coin market cap is the iou version of pi. And you can learn all about that on my previous post.
RIGHT NOW THE ONLY WAY you can sell pi coins is through verified pi merchants. A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins and resell them to exchanges and crypto whales. Looking forward to hold massive quantities of pi coins before the mainnet launch.
This is because pi network is not doing any pre-sale or ico offerings, the only way to get my coins is from buying from miners. So a merchant facilitates the transactions between the miners and these exchanges holding pi.
I and my friends has sold more than 6000 pi coins successfully with this method. I will be happy to share the contact of my personal pi merchant. The one i trade with, if you have your own merchant you can trade with them. For those who are new.
Message: @Pi_vendor_247 on telegram.
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If you are looking for a pi coin investor. Then look no further because I have the right one he is a pi vendor (he buy and resell to whales in China). I met him on a crypto conference and ever since I and my friends have sold more than 10k pi coins to him And he bought all and still want more. I will drop his telegram handle below just send him a message.
@Pi_vendor_247
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how can i trade pi coins for Bitcoin easily.DOT TECH
Pi is not launched yet on any exchange, it is not sellable, but you can actually exchange your I network coins to other currencies. By selling your pi network coins to investors and holders of the coins.
How can I find a pi network investor
Lol, you don't need to find a investor all you have to do is to sell your pi coins to a vendor [ buys from miners and resells to the holders]
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Yes. You can sell your pi network for other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, usdt , Ethereum and other currencies And this is done easily with the help from a pi merchant.
What is a pi merchant ?
Since pi is not launched yet in any exchange. The only way you can sell right now is through merchants.
A verified Pi merchant is someone who buys pi network coins from miners and resell them to investors looking forward to hold massive quantities of pi coins before mainnet launch in 2026.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade with.
@Pi_vendor_247
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Where can I sell my pi coins at a high rate.
Pi is not launched yet on any exchange. But one can easily sell his or her pi coins to investors who want to hold pi till mainnet launch.
This means crypto whales want to hold pi. And you can get a good rate for selling pi to them. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi vendor below.
A vendor is someone who buys from a miner and resell it to a holder or crypto whale.
Here is the telegram contact of my vendor:
@Pi_vendor_247
how can I sell my mined pi coins profitabily.DOT TECH
Even tho. Pi is not launched yet on any exchange worldwide. You can easily sell your mined pi coins for cash or other cryptocurrencies, Through verified vendors/merchants
Who is a pi vendor?
A pi vendor is a person, that buys pi coins from miners and resell them to Investors interested in holding pi coins till mainnet launch in 2026…
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Even tho Pi network is not listed on any exchange yet.
Buying/Selling or investing in pi network coins is highly possible through the help of vendors. You can buy from vendors[ buy directly from the pi network miners and resell it]. I will leave the telegram contact of my personal vendor.
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The best way to sell your pi coins safely is trading with an exchange..but since pi is not launched in any exchange, and second option is through a VERIFIED pi merchant.
Who is a pi merchant?
A pi merchant is someone who buys pi coins from miners and pioneers and resell them to Investors looking forward to hold massive amounts before mainnet launch in 2026.
I will leave the telegram contact of my personal pi merchant to trade pi coins with.
@Pi_vendor_247
1. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
A NEW DESTINATION FOR
ASSET & LIABILITY MANAGEMENT
18th September 2008
Lehman Fiasco
10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know
10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
Redington Partners 18th September 08
2. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
1. In practice, what happens when a swap counterparty vanishes?
2. What are the risks associated with replacing a terminated swap?
3. What do these events tell us about LDI?
4. How to manage counterparty risk?
5. How will this impact the value of the pension fund’s other assets?
6. How has the market reacted in the last three days?
7. Can the markets get any worse?
8. What should I be asking my asset manager?
9. Could this happen to any other banks?
10. What are the lessons for risk management?
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3. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
Lehman Fiasco
10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know
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What happens when a swap counterparty vanishes?
Mark-to-Market
(MTM) of
Outstanding
Swaps
• Determine exact moment of bankruptcy:
• Value outstanding collateral;
• Obtain 5 bank Quotes to value all outstanding swap positions;
• Or determine “Loss”.
Determine net
payment flows
• Net all outstanding swap contracts with bankrupt counterparty.
•If net payments owed to pension fund, collateral claimed.
•If collateral insufficient, shortfall is unsecured claim in bankruptcy.
•If net payments owed to counterparty, pension fund releases
collateral to counterparty.
New
Swaps/Hedges
•Execute new replacement swaps at current market levels; or
•Buy bonds (Government/inflation) wait for more favourable market
conditions.
•Do nothing - Run market risk.
Swap Collateral
Investment Banks
• Investment banks are providing clients
with a poll of swap prices to help
determine close out levels with Lehman.
• They are also market making on
replacement trades for clients.
• Lehman was not a major LDI
counterparty but by some estimates
they had over £3m PV01 of RPI
exposure and much more in nominals.
• On Monday, 15 Sep ‘08, an estimated
50% to 60% of this was traded which
pushed swap break-evens 10bps
higher.
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What are the key risks / costs associated with replacing a swap?
• Potential shortfall
between value of
collateral and MTM of
swap value;
• Bid / offer spread
charged on
replacement
transaction;
• Open market risk from
time of bankruptcy
until new hedge
implemented;
• Availability of
replacement swap
given illiquid market
conditions.
Breakevens implied by swaps were
sharply higher in the long end with 30yrs
trading at the psychologically important
4.00% level (up 11bps on the day).
Replacement of Lehman Risk (est.) in the Market (change in RPI Swap Curve)
Source: Bloomberg / Redington
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Lehman Brothers UK Defined Benefit Pension fund Liquidator
Expenses
Fixed Secured
Creditors
Pension fund
deficit*
Floating Secured
Creditors
Unsecured
Creditors
Shareholders
* Liquidator obligated to fund to Scheme Specific Funding
level (generally a slightly more prudent basis than IAS19)
Asset Value IAS 19 PV
Liabilities
Buyout Price % of Assets
Actives and
Deferreds
£164 £183 £214 130%
Pensioners £16 £17 £18 113%
Total £180 £200 £232 129%
• Join ranks of creditors.
• Windup the fund – PPF or private insurer with reduced benefits.
• High number of Deferreds and Actives (over 96% of total fund members). This will
increase the longevity risk associated with private buyout quotes.
• If adopted by PPF, existing pensioners will continue to receive current benefits. All
other members’ benefits will be capped at a maximum of £27,770 per annum.
Breakdown of Lehman’s Estimated Buyout Costs (£ Millions)
Source: Redington - All figures based on (limited) publicly available information and
assumption / example of 90% level of IAS 19 funding. No info available on this point.
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What does this tell us about LDI?
• Swaps enable pension funds to manage two major risks – interest rates and inflation;
• Unavoidable corollary is counterparty risk. This is mitigated as both parties post collateral;
• Like house insurance, prudent LDI remains essential. Recent events simply highlight the importance
of understanding risk, selecting and managing secure protection providers.
LDI shuts down
pension fund’s
exposure to:
LDI exposes
pension funds
to:
Rise in Inflation Expectations (last 5 years)
Source: Bloomberg / Redington
8. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
Managing counterparty risk
1. Minimise exposure through tightening CSA conditions
• Credit risk can be reduced by:
• Reducing the time between collateral calls;
• Limiting the types of securities that can be posted as collateral to cash and government bonds;
• Reducing minimum collateral thresholds to zero.
• These agreements are typically “two way”, which may place an additional administrative burden on the pension fund
and/or its fund managers.
• A "distressed" counterparty may agree to more stringent conditions in one direction (i.e. when they post collateral).
2. Re-coupon swap transactions to current mid-market value
• Swap transaction terms should be regularly “updated” such that the hedging bank pays an upfront cash amount to the
pension plan thereby reducing the prevailing mark-to-market value to (or close to) zero, i.e. it settles up its account.
• For this to work, swaps should be re-couponed to have broadly the same interest rate and inflation sensitivity as
previously.
• This is not the same as posting collateral which does not involve re-couponing the original transaction.
Advantages
• Frees up cash to invest in assets to generate a return above LIBOR;
• Reduces credit exposure to swap counterparty;
• If the collateral is restricted to cash / government bonds then the improvement in credit risk may be marginal, but
(depending on funding position/reserving policy / method of calculating current mark-to-market) the hedging bank may
be able to pay a greater value than the current mid-market value;
• If the CSA allows a greater range of collateral (for example, corporate bonds), then re-couponing is likely to achieve a
meaningful reduction in credit risk given the lack of price transparency of such instruments in the current environment.
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Disadvantages
• Given that the re-couponed swaps have zero present value today, there is some likelihood that the pension fund will
have to post collateral to the hedging bank in future – which may, perhaps, be considered a disadvantage.
3. Novate or assign swaps to new swap counterparties
• Pension fund completely replaces hedging bank counterparty in swap agreement. New swap counterparty executes
"back to back" swap with old swap counterparty.
Advantages
• Diversifies credit exposure, providing potentially stronger credit counterparty and reducing exposure to any one bank.
Disadvantages
• Banks will charge a fee for intermediating a swap which, in the worst case, may be of a similar order of magnitude to
implementing a completely new swap.
• The new potential bank counterparty may not want to face the existing counterparty (e.g.: this may be the case if the
existing swap counterparty is distressed or the new bank counterparty already has a large exposure to it).
• The new bank counterparty may not be able to offer the same degree of post-transaction liquidity as the old
counterparty if the trade is subsequently changed/closed out.
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Managing counterparty risk
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How will these events impact the value of the pension fund’s other assets?
Asset Class Impact
Equities Negative. All markets are falling, with financial stocks hardest hit.
Corporate Bonds Negative. Credit spreads ballooning as market participants revalue
counterparty risk.
Government Bonds Positive at the short end, neutral at the longer end.
Property Negative.
Inflation Gilt Breakeven vs Swaps
Breakeven
Gilt breakeven is lower on back of falling oil prices but swap
breakeven moving higher on back of demand for new (replacement)
hedging activity (see p5 above).
Cash Positive. Libor remains well above official short term rates offering an
attractive “flight to quality” haven in the face of volatile markets.
Hedge Funds Varied. Generally negative.
Asset Backed Securities / Illiquid
structured credit (“Proxy Cash”)
Negative. As Lehman assets are fire-sold new lower valuations will be
established for that asset class. The very act of selling will drive values
lower.
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How has the market reacted?
Market Reaction Change Since Monday 15/09/08
UK Equities (FTSE 100) -9.3%
US Equities (S&P 500) -7.6%
Interest Rates (30 Year Interest
Rate Swap)
-8bps
Long Term Inflation Expectations
(30 Year Inflation Swap Rate)
+7bps
Credit Spreads (5 Year iTraxx) +41bps
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Spreads on 10 year Goldman Sachs Credit Default Swaps (CDS)
Collapse of
Northern Rock
Withdrawal of
liquidity in
interbank market
Bear Sterns
bought out by JP
Morgan
Lehman Brothers
file for bankruptcy.
Bank of America
announces purchase
of Merrill Lynch
12Source: Bloomberg / Redington
13. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
Historical FTSE 100 Performance (2000 – 2008)
Can the markets get any worse?
Low: 3,287 (12 March 03)
High: 6,640 (18 May 07)
13
Source: Bloomberg / Redington
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Source: Bloomberg / Redington
CDO crisis
Northern Rock
nationalised
Bear Sterns bought
out by JP Morgan
Lehman Brothers
files for
bankruptcy. Fed
leaves short term
rates unchanged
Can the markets get any worse?
Overnight GBP LIBOR
15. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
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What should I be asking my asset manager?
• Pension funds should seek to understand:
• Their counterparty exposure to:
• US Investment Banks;
• UK and European Investment Banks;
• Other Financial Companies (e.g. Insurers);
• Asset manager strategy in current market conditions.
• For each of the above, Redington would recommend funds monitor:
• Notional Exposure;
• CDD1 (Credit Duration);
• Recovery Values;
• ISDA Schedule Terms;
• ISDA CSA Terms.
• All Asset Valuations
• The current environment makes it very difficult to liquidate. Therefore, we
recommend:
• Where possible, recoup any cash balances associated with swaps;
• Reinvest any funds in low risk assets, e.g. short dated gilts, or long dated
(index-linked) gilts if the fund has remaining PV01 mismatches.
16. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
16
Could this happen to any other banks?
Financial Stocks Under Pressure Movement in Share price
w/c 15th Sept 2008
AIG -83%
Washington Mutual -26%
Goldman Sachs -26%
HBOS -48%
Very few degrees of separation
•Lehman Brothers’ London landlord, Songbird
Estates Plc, insured 4 years of rent payments on
Lehman’s offices in the Canary Wharf financial
district. Insurer? AIG.
17. 10 Things Pension Funds Need to Know…
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What are the lessons for risk management?
• Learn to respect mark-to-market;
• View Risk through several “lenses”;
• Reduce unrewarded risk;
• Examine portfolio strategy;
• Establish Framework to move quickly.
Before AIG reported its second-quarter results,
analysts estimated deterioration in the market may
have required realized losses of as much as $3.25
billion in an unlikely, worst-case scenario. AIG had no
write-offs, and said it expects to collect “substantially
all principal and interest.''
``AIG views recent pricing as indicative of market
turmoil unrelated to the fundamental financial
characteristics of these securities,'' Lewis said, calling
the declines “temporary"
AIG August 2007
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dawid@redingtonpartners.com
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robert.gardner@redingtonpartners.com
Redington Partners LLP
13 -15 Mallow Street London EC1Y 8RD
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 250 3331
www.redingtonpartners.com
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