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A great customer experience leads to strong retention, which maximizes returns and makes us the best bid for acquiring MSRs. When it comes to bidding on portfolios, Pyro gives us a massive advantage because we can respond to sellers with great speed and confidence. We look at all these portfolios. We run them.
professional liability and general liability portfolios, where we took underwriting actions to improve profitability. Favorable development in the first nine months of 2024 was most notable within our international professional liability product lines. Our premium growth was driven by select U.S.
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As it relates to our hedges, our balance liability position help protect us from the elevated rate volatility experienced during the first half of the quarter. And while low no-rate collateral still our preferred segment of the MSR market, we expect these flow relationships to add a source of more predictable supply.
And within these coupons, only a small fraction of our pools are backed by generic collateral and approximately 70% have what we would characterize as high-quality prepayment protection and the benefits of our collateral selection were best seen in the latest prepayment report. It's also been great to work with the Rocket team.
Steven Hamner -- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Well, because of the security waterfall, and as you alluded to, there is -- there are other lenders that have first liens on the typical collateral of receivables. And are people looking at the financials to get ready to put in bids?
In some instances, we're adding additional collateral to support the credit. I spent some time this week talking to one of our customers who is a large supplier of construction materials and he indicated that they're getting a lot of requests for bids, they're completing a lot of bids, but they're not seeing a lot of work awarded.
Most of this came from a line item called "Increase in trade and other liabilities." You have to also invest in a lot of in cash and treasuries as collateral. If you're a more active investor, you probably want to pay attention to liquidity, which is generally measured by daily volume and the bid-ask spread.
The 51% partner had the opportunity to match the bid and take us out and they elected not to do so. I mean it's a fully collateralized loan. Please see our Terms and Conditions for additional details, including our Obligatory Capitalized Disclaimers of Liability. Or just any update there? Pickett -- Chief Executive Officer Yes.
And it's collateralized as well by the equity interest in that private investment. So it's well collateralized, high net worth individual with great track record. Bob Stephenson -- Chief Financial Officer Adding – bidding held-for-sale assets that they are held for sale assets, we booked 788,000 in the fourth quarter related to those.
We also executed several liability management transactions during the year. In this regard, we continue to evaluate various liability management opportunities that satisfy our objectives of reducing debt, extending the liquidity runway, simplifying the [Inaudible] structure of our balance sheet, and reducing interest expense.
With investment-grade ratings from two agencies, the company will now benefit from lower interest rates and fees and the elimination of all collateral requirements for both our $1.25 But I'll also tell you that the bids that we're working on today are significantly higher than 50% of those being 2.0.
An underwriting decision typically requires the gathering and verification of thousands of data fields, which are drawn from disparate resources and formats to populate key categories of income, assets, collateral, property and the credit profile. We have been actively bidding. The bids are fairly aggressive.
But suffice it to say, over the last decade, we've acquired hundreds of portfolios, totaling over 700 billion from more than 1,500 sellers, which, by the way, gives us a significant information advantage when bidding for pools. What I'd emphasize is that throughout this time, we were constantly investing in our servicing platform.
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Brian Higgins has put together a amazing track record handling distressed and stressed debts, as well as other forms of credit real estate collateralized obligations. So for example, if things go quite wide and spreads where they can trade 10 bond points wide, being able to buy on the bid side versus the as side. It was formed in 1995.
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They borrowed money at live bid at the time. Perhaps most famously you guys put on a CO bet, a collateralized debt obligation bet that was designed to do well if housing made some extreme moves and it was non-directional, it was hedged. And so they, they have many, many different business lines there. So it was their excess cash.
RITHOLTZ: You hit the bid before — RIEDER: Well, yes. It’s roughly two-thirds, three-quarters of the liabilities in the world. It’s the collateral. Treasury is the collateral in the world that is underneath, you know, most transactions in the world. RIEDER: Yeah. RITHOLTZ: — everything blew up.
Panossian ] 00:08:19 The liabilities, obviously the hedge funds had redemptions. There would’ve been no bid. Now they’re suffering from high rates because they have floating rate liabilities that they never hedged. But for you guys, there’s no bid. That had mismatched assets. That’s an example.
As our efforts to reduce servicing costs improved our bids, we shifted energy to a series of enhancements to our platform. Liquidity consisted of $753 million in unrestricted cash, with the remaining in MSR line capacity, which is fully collateralized and immediately available. We ended the fourth quarter with liquidity of $3.4
I did the, the first time I make it make some bid to, to get to know the people and the, write a story about it. And if somebody has a big loss and it drops way below the, the collateral they put up, that loss gets spread out. If someone loses money, we liquidate the collateral, they’re done.
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