2007 Collateral Leveraging 
The Motley Fool
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
The big open secret here is that AGNC, like other mortgage REITs , makes liberal use of leverage in an effort to enhance shareholder returns. For starters, pledging basically means the company is using its mortgage bond portfolio as collateral for loans. In and of itself using leverage isn't a bad thing, but it increases risk.
Blackstone News
JULY 9, 2024
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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. And so, therefore, the usual market forces that push against high leverage in other companies that just naturally with no regulation would limit. Any kind, collateral, non-collateral. ADMATI: OK.
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.
The Big Picture
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
MILLER: The collateral won’t be adequate in our view. And they found on average, when you have a crisis that originates in the finance sector due to too much leverage, too much speculation, on average markets get cut in half and real estate loses about 30% of its value. Or could, would, or wouldn’t be. ” MILLER: Yeah.
The Big Picture
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
And there was one conversation very early in my career, this was actually 2007, where I was interviewing with an asset manager and I pre-meeting, asked them what they thought of the market. This is implicitly leverage. Leverage is a tool that accentuates both the good and the bad. 00:28:05 [Speaker Changed] Exactly.
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