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AGNC Investment: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

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And such REITs often employ leverage, usually using their loan portfolio as collateral, to enhance returns. In some ways, a mortgage REIT is more like a mutual fund than a company. The answer is institutional investors focused on asset allocation. That list might include pension funds, endowments, and insurance companies.

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Annaly Capital Management's Total Return Won't Pay the Bills

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It's fairly easy to understand what property owning REITs do: They buy physical assets and lease them out to tenants. Its revenue comes from the interest it collects on these bond-like securities, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation. That's what you'd do if you had a rental property.

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I'm Not Buying Annaly Capital. Here's Why.

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Generally, this comes in the form of mortgages that have been pooled together into bond-like securities called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), or something similar. In this way, it is something like a mutual fund or asset manager. But that's just not what I'm looking to do.

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1 Stock I Wouldn't Touch With a 10-Foot Pole

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A mortgage REIT like AGNC buys mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like securities, often referred to as something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). Generally, leverage is employed so that more CMOs can be bought, with the CMO portfolio acting as collateral for the loan.

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Annaly Capital Management: Buy, Sell, or Hold?

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In this way, it's kind of like a mutual fund that focuses on mortgages. The answer is investors who follow a fairly complex asset allocation model (which should obviously include mortgages as an asset class). In fact, the most common asset allocators are large investors like pension funds, family offices, and endowments.

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Here's Why 1 Investment Bank Says Blackstone Just Hit a "Major Milestone"

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Blackstone (NYSE: BX) recently reached a huge milestone when it surpassed over $1 trillion in assets under management ( AUM ) in the second quarter. It became the first global alternative asset manager to hit that level and will add another notch to its belt when it joins the S&P 500 index later this month.

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MicroStrategy (MSTR) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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