The Big Picture

AUGUST 15, 2023

So if you start with the S&P 500 or in this case stocks and bonds, you only have two asset classes, right. So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. If you look at the types of assets that Yale invests in, you can create a benchmark for each pool.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 16, 2024

Litigation finance is basically specialty finance that looks at legal assets, claims, litigation matters, arbitrations. Looks at those things as financible assets. Just like any other financial asset that has value, you can organize a financing package around the value of those assets, and that's exactly what we do.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

I wanna say it’s about $179 billion in client assets. 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. That had mismatched assets. It’s not an asset that other creditors can go after.

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The Big Picture

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

MILLER: The collateral won’t be adequate in our view. RITHOLTZ: (LAUGHTER) MILLER: But in reality, the buyers that zoomed out to the suburbs were largely from the rental market because they weren’t anchored to another asset. Housing itself, it’s just a slow moving asset. And then he left in 2009.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 26, 2025

Most of its portfolio is in lower-rated corporate bonds (which generate higher yields), but the fund's holdings can also include investment-grade corporate bonds, government bonds, and other assets. Some (although not all) of these loans are secured by assets pledged as collateral. government bonds, and high-yield credit assets.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $307,661 !* We are proud to have contributed to the corporate initiative advocating for the revision of prior reporting standards that categorize Bitcoin as an indefinite-lived intangible asset. On the capital markets front.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 18, 2025

million in circulation, making the world's largest cryptocurrency a finite asset with similar dynamics to gold. Not only can investors in the Ethereum network earn yields on their tokens, but the tokens are also frequently used as collateral in digital asset transactions. Treasury bills.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 9, 2025

Unfortunately, the prices of long-term assets with fixed interest payments are sensitive to interest rate changes. When rapid rate changes lower the value of an mREIT's collateral, they can be forced to sell assets at fire sale prices to boost liquidity and satisfy lenders.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 12, 2025

AGNC allocates 93% of its portfolio to agency MBS assets, which are backed by Fannie Mae , Freddie Mac , or Ginnie Mae to offset the risk of another mortgage crisis. AGNC has also been gradually increasing its portfolio's exposure to riskier non-agency assets to boost its near-term profits. What happened to AGNC over the past year?

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AGNC is also well insulated from a potential mortgage crisis because it allocates over 89% of its portfolio to Agency MBS assets, which are backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae. And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $348,579 !* AGNC trades at $10.47

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 25, 2025

It calls itself "the worlds first and largest Bitcoin Treasury Company" and says it has "adopted Bitcoin as our primary treasury reserve asset. That could be 's a lot of buying pressure, even for an asset with a market cap in excess of $1.7 And Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) , formerly known as MicroStrategy, is all-in. trillion like Bitcoin.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

By using collateral to secure these notes, the REIT was able to lock in a lower interest rate. billion in liquidity by the end of the third quarter via asset sales and the U.K.-secured It's finally in a position where it can refinance some debt instead of having no alternatives other than selling assets and repaying debt as it matures.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 1, 2025

The cost of capital notably includes the interest costs of leverage that uses the portfolio as collateral. That, in turn, could force AGNC Investment to sell assets into a market downturn. If the list of assets you want exposure to includes mortgages, then AGNC Investment, given its total return, is actually a decent option.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

One asset class Wood has not shied away from is cryptocurrency. Treasury bills, largely due to its staking mechanism in which investors can post Ethereum as collateral to validate transactions and earn rewards. However, I think Bitcoin and Ethereum are good long-term assets for investors to have at least some exposure to.

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The Motley Fool

JANUARY 27, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $369,816 !* These were primarily related to the release of the majority of the valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets. In the fourth quarter, total assets grew by $1.9 billion, up 66% year over year.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $344,352 !* They commented on the growing strength and scale of our franchise, our strong return on assets and solid liquidity, and they cited our hedge program as a credit positive. Simply put, our clients are winning.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 14, 2025

A down economy isn't good for crypto because it pulls assets from risky assets like cryptocurrencies into less risky assets or into savings as people have less money to speculate with. So, cryptocurrencies aren't technically impacted by tariffs, but the collateral damage is going to hit the industry.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 5, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $300,764 !* They give the marketing material, collateral benefits and some marketing campaigns to reach out to our customers, webinars, some of the CXO summits we're doing. We just launched asset risk management.

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The Big Picture

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And so graduating right into 2009, right out of the financial crisis, I said, I don’t think I’m gonna get a job. We were talking about luck earlier, got introduced to a local asset manager outside of Boston who saw what I was working on and said, this is really interesting. And I just caught the bug.

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The Motley Fool

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Many believe the Trump administration will seek to pass legislation clarifying crypto gray areas and promoting the use of stablecoins, digital assets pegged to a commodity or currency. Treasury bills, primarily due to its ability to generate yield and its frequent use as collateral in crypto transactions.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 29, 2024

For example, in the first quarter, an over $15 billion asset bank expanded their use of nCino from Treasury onboarding to include small business and consumer lending, as well as deposit account opening. So, we see that customer base of commercial as a tremendous asset to drive more automation and to actually get more customer value out of it.

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The Motley Fool

MARCH 27, 2025

Digital Asset Stockpile that will likely involve several cryptocurrencies. Shiba Inu this week confirmed rumors about the upcoming launch of Shib Finance, a platform that would offer lending, borrowing, and savings in a more comprehensive way than traditional crypto collateral-based lending, and which could improve the utility of Shiba Inu.

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The Big Picture

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

00:09:48 [Speaker Changed] And, and then in January, 2009, we we’re deep into the financial crisis. So, if you remember, we were, we were still rolling out various facilities like the, the, the term asset backed, the lending facility, for example. So that was a big job in the spring of, of 2009. Again, fantastic timing.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

This leading digital asset has soared in the past few years, but in the past seven weeks, it's been trading around the $100,000 level. can be a leader in digital asset innovation. For example, real estate firm Newmarket allows borrowers to use Bitcoin as collateral for parts of loans.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

And the numbers speak for themselves: Nvidia: if you invested $1,000 when we doubled down in 2009, youd have $361,026 !* We signed nine new agreements with collateral counterparties in the public sector, expanding our total addressable market for payroll loans to 70% of the segment. Now, moving to secured lending in Brazil.

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