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Net-asset-value (NAV) loans, which layer additional leverage onto private companies already burdened with significant debt, have come under scrutiny, particularly when buyout firms use them to fund distributions rather than growth. Other investors who are sitting on a lot of cash may see this as an expensive way to get cash back.
This is vastly different from property-owning REITs, which are fairly simple to understand using kitchen table finance. Mortgage REITs buy mortgages that have been cobbled together into bond-like securities, often called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO). Basically, you buy a property and rent it out. A lot can go wrong.
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However, it is still a company so it has more leeway in the way its business gets financed. The big open secret here is that AGNC, like other mortgage REITs , makes liberal use of leverage in an effort to enhance shareholder returns. In and of itself using leverage isn't a bad thing, but it increases risk.
PARTNER CONTENT F und finance is witnessing exponential grow th, b ut this comes with escalating operational requirements for sponsors and lenders as they scale these facilities. Keeping pace with growth The use of fund finance has grown exponentially in recent years, as demand for both subscription lines and NAV lending has ballooned.
As an operating business, we are able to use cash flows, as well as proceeds from equity and debt financing, to accumulate bitcoin, which serves as our primary treasury reserve asset. These capital market levers allow us to deploy intelligent leverage to increase our Bitcoin holdings in a manner which we believe has created shareholder value.
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The Fund focuses on asset-based specialty private credit investments in a variety of trade formats across a broad array of collateral types within consumer, real asset, and other specialty lending markets.
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EPR owns physical properties, while AGNC invests in mortgages that have been pooled into bond-like investments often called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), or something similar. Leverage, meanwhile, plays an important role for mortgage REITs, with the portfolio of CMOs often acting as collateral.
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. Adding to the concern here, REITs like Annaly often use leverage to enhance returns. In this way, it is something like a mutual fund or asset manager.
We are executing our strategy of both product and client segment diversification while leveraging technology to increase operating efficiency and enhance the customer experience. It's looking at opportunities for flow or new sales financing, as well as third-party blocks. So it's ongoing, looking at our own balance sheet optimization.
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Harrison Masters -- Director, Investor Relations and Strategic Finance Good afternoon and welcome to nCino's second quarter fiscal 2024 earnings call. Leveraging this holistic view of the customer, nCino facilitates gathering deposits, originating any loan product, onboarding customers, and portfolio management, all from one platform.
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Earnings available for distribution exceeded our dividend by $0.03, demonstrating our ability to consistently earn strong returns with prudent leverage, which stood at 5.8 And consistent with prior quarters, we favored high-quality prepayment-protected collateral with durable cash flows. return for the first half of the year.
He led investment banking activities including mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital raising, structured finance and syndicated lending, supporting Citi’s broader banking client base and international businesses in over 95 countries.
At this time, I'd like to turn the floor over to Dustin Hauenstein, senior vice president of finance. Dustin Hauenstein -- Senior Vice President, Finance Good morning. We are committed to more aggressively leveraging consumer insights to lean into our greatest areas of differentiation. Please go ahead.
Loan production in the quarter was again diverse across multiple areas with particular strength in our middle-market sponsor finance vertical, our solar business, and our general lending small business verticals. It is collateralized. It was a collateralized loan. Turning to Slide 10. As for growth, pipelines do remain healthy.
Our ability to manage through this volatility is attributable to our diversified capital allocation, prudent hedge portfolio, and responsible leverage position. And even with the reduction in leverage from 6.4 Now turning to details on financing, funding markets remain ample and liquid. times to 5.8 billion for the quarter.
market and leveraging our growing SmileShop footprint to drive upsells for our CarePlus offering. Leveraging all the benefits of SMP together drives improved financial performance on top of our core business. SMP is showing signs of driving stronger marketing efficiencies through tangible benefits by reducing our cost per lead.
In our keynote address, we highlighted how some of the biggest brands in the world, including organizations like Hilton Hotels, Amica Insurance, and Sony Interactive Entertainment leverage the power and unified capabilities of MicroStrategy to transform how they operate and succeed amid fierce competition.
And by leveraging generative AI, we can deliver great client experiences at scale by handling more interactions and keeping more clients engaged with better automation. Recent data shows that clients using chat have conversion rates three times higher compared to those who didn't leverage chat.
“It gets back to the ability to grow the operating performance of the companies and making sure that returns” come from that rather than from “financial leverage,” he tells Bloomberg. And the use of PIK and other forms of so-called “back leverage” makes it even more difficult to get a clear picture on the state of privately owned companies.
million customers and generated $305 million in pre-tax servicing income, thanks to continued strong operating leverage. And meanwhile, we continue to deliver very strong operating leverage. This platform is one example of how we leverage those 16 petabytes of data. We grew the servicing portfolio to $1.2 billion, up from $3.2
In fact, you couldn't ask for a better demonstration of operating leverage. We reported pre-tax income of $288 million, up 58% year over year, reflecting the benefits of growth in operating leverage, while CPR speeds came in slightly below expectations. These results reflect strong growth, with the portfolio ending the quarter at $1.2
This lack of multifamily and agency maturities is good from a maturity risk standpoint, but will require our team to search outside the W&D portfolio for financing opportunities, something our team has done consistently as W&D has climbed the league tables and built a $132 billion servicing portfolio. Those are two examples.
To restate our long-term funding framework, we will look to maximize CAFD per share net of the cost of financing, while also ensuring that and investment needs its long-term metrics aligned with its underwriting criteria. The last piece of our funding framework will be external equity issuance. We don't need to.
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And is there maybe a pull-forward of some expenses from next year in order to position you for improved positive operating leverage? So, it's important when you consider all this, our revenue and expense, that we are firmly committed to generating positive operating leverage over the back half of 2024. Five of those are office related.
Walt joined the bank in 2015 and brings 18 years of experience in the financial industry, including various finance, treasury, accounting, audit, and deposit analytic roles. Lastly, a comment or two on operating leverage before we move on to the most surprising development at the SBA since we started this bank. Moving to Slide 5.
billion point-of-sale financing business, which will augment the existing offerings in our home and auto and health and wellness sales platforms. In closing, Synchrony is focused on leveraging our core strengths to optimize our business position and build our long history of delivering steady, growth, and strong risk-adjusted returns.
By leveraging AI, we will transform an industry that is ripe for innovation, establishing Rocket as the premier choice for clients and partners, including local real estate agents, mortgage brokers and financial institutions. Today, we're in an even better position to drive operating leverage through automation and AI.
With the commitment to Luna Valley and Daggett I along with the offer for an investment into an enhanced Pine Forest project complex and financing structure, we continue to complete actions on our checklist toward providing further visibility into growth beyond the previously established target of $2.15 Turning to Slide 5.
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In the coming months, we expect to release an optional feature that allows borrowers to provide collateral to support their personal loan application. We also expanded our finance offering with 88 dealerships now offering Upstart auto lending, up from 27 a year ago. Expecting to reach 90% of US consumers by the end of this quarter.
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