He started out at Goldman as a mortgage bond trader, working his way up to chief financial officer, and then president.
Investors are no longer feeding the mortgage bond beast, or cutting off demand and thus severely crimping the ability of companies like Countrywide to operate.
AAA-rated mortgage bond even one with a high yield would never lose value.
The epicenter of all this finger-pointing: Capitol Hill Thursday, as lawmakers, regulators, and executives gathered to debate how to deal with the crisis gripping the credit markets, particularly the perilous state of the mortgage bond industry.
At the same time dozens of deals like the Chrysler and Alliance Boots loans, have been postponed or canceled in the weeks since investors started getting spooked about credit quality concerns in the mortgage bond markets.
What started in the subprime mortgage bond market earlier this year is filtering into the broader credit markets, but the nervousness is less a sign of deteriorating credit quality--defaults are at historic lows of 0.3%, according to Coffey--and more an oversupply issue.
The SPDR Barclays Capital Mortgage Backed Bond ETF ( MBG) seeks to provide investment results that, before fees and expenses, correspond generally to the price and yield performance of an index that tracks the U.S. agency mortgage pass-through sector of the U.S. investment grade bond market.
Bank of China's interest in securitization coincides with an unprecedented start to the year for the commercial-mortgage-bond market.
Goldman also said it has received subpoenas from unspecified regulators seeking information on the firm's mortgage business and products such as Abacus 2007-AC1, a mortgage-bond deal.
The SEC's focus on advice provided by lawyers in mortgage-bond deals is part of the wider push by officials to punish alleged wrongdoing tied to the financial crisis.
So far, the pain has been limited to homeowners, home builders and banks like Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, HSBC Holdings, which have been writing down the value of their mortgage-bond portfolios.
In mortgage securitisation, for instance, the lender is supplanted by the broker, the loan originator, the servicer (who collects payments), the investor and the arranger, not to mention the rating agencies and mortgage-bond insurers.
Adding to his credentials, he has already turned around a troubled institution (the exchange was reeling when he took over in 2004, after Richard Grasso was ousted because of his enormous pay packet) and he has bags of experience in the areas where Merrill is most deficient (he ran the mortgage-bond desk at Goldman Sachs before becoming the investment bank's chief operating officer).
Second, many pension funds were badly wounded in the mortgage-backed bond crunch of 2008 and 2009.
If you decide to buy a mortgage-backed bond, pay attention to where the pool is coming from.
When you buy a mortgage-backed bond, you are in effect buying a straight bond and then giving away a call option to the homeowners.
Mortgage-backed bond issues require a sophisticated appreciation of credit risk.
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As you know, before the collapse of the mortgage-backed bond market in 2007, banks routinely offered mortgages worth more than 90% of the value of a house - and even 100% mortgages were relatively common.
Many of the mortgage companies would essentially take a mortgage, lending you money, and then sell that mortgage as a bond or basically as debt to Wall Street, and the Wall Street investor would then take the risk off the shoulders of the mortgage banker.
Because, again, since no one knew which mortgage would default first, it was impossible to assign a specific mortgage to a specific bond.
Like the mortgage market, the municipal bond market has morphed into its own new era of highflying finance, adjustable-rate loans and complex securities.
By buying Treasury and government-agency debt, central banks have financed America's current-account deficit, and pushed down bond yields and mortgage rates, allowing America's consumer spending and borrowing binge to continue for longer.
And to keep its exchange rate pegged to the dollar, China has been buying vast amounts of American Treasury bonds, which has helped to depress bond yields and mortgage rates, fuelling America's property boom.
Some young man in a bank lobby talked him into a dodgy bond fund that contained mortgage derivatives and lost money.
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If Brazil develops as expected, the derivatives, mortgage-securitisation and corporate-bond markets may become bigger, making investment banking a more balance-sheet-intensive affair.
Essentially leveraged bond funds that own mortgage-backed securities, the Agency MREITs have been the among the few financial stocks to deliver positive total returns in the last 18 months since credit concerns resurfaced for most bank and financial stocks.
It is long-term bond yields, and the mortgage rates allied to them, that give the economy its tempo.
Mr. REED: The person left holding the buck is going to be the investor at the other end of the table, the person who's - or the company, typically, a hedge fund or something like that who has bought that mortgage paper, that security or that bond from the company that lent you the money originally.
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