The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
AGNC's leverage increases risk In the company's 10Q (which is its quarterly report to the SEC), it states that: We pledge our securities as collateral under our borrowings structured as repurchase agreements with financial institutions. For example, American Home Mortgage, once a top-10 mortgage lender, went bankrupt in 2007.
Blackstone News
JULY 9, 2024
Tyler Dickson added: “I’ve admired Blackstone’s innovation since leading the firm’s IPO in 2007. In the past, Dickson held numerous markets and banking leadership positions including running corporate and investment banking, equity and debt capital markets, leveraged finance, structured finance and securitization businesses.
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The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Collateralized loan obligations from the Great Recession of 2007-2009, part of it is what causes the booms and busts. You get a bust, like we saw, for example, in the housing crisis in 2007-2009. William Bernstein: Exactly. Then all of a sudden bankers and investors get religion, they become a lot more conservative.
The Motley Fool
MAY 3, 2024
We are actively gathering year-end financial information for our entire portfolio, and with most of the data already collected, the weighted average debt service coverage ratio remains over two times, with most of the collaterals in our portfolio generating more than twice their annual debt service payments. Those are two examples.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 8, 2022
So, until the financial crisis of 2007 and 2009 or however you go — you actually time it, I was in this finance bubble. Any kind, collateral, non-collateral. They don’t have collateral. So, that was that and then comes the financial crisis. I was teaching corporate finance. I did research, theoretical research.
The Big Picture
AUGUST 15, 2023
SEIDES: John Yeah, I said back then, the bet started in 2007 and I say today, being in the market and investing in hedge funds is completely apples and oranges. This is the summer of 2007. RITHOLTZ: 2007. And he said, “Well, it has to be this and that “and it has to be collateralized with a letter of credit.”
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
You’ve probably heard some aspects of this from the various interviews I’ve done with Howard Marks talking about the distressed asset fund they set up in 2007. You joined in 2007. But, but fast forward to June of 2007, you know, oaktree in the distressed debt landscape is, is really, you know, second to none.
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