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The Open Secret That Is AGNC Investment's Achilles' Heel

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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.

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Why New Fortress Energy Rallied Today

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The company also agreed to have these notes secured by a 49% stake in New Fortress' Brazil operations, giving creditors more collateral than they had prior. When compared with the company's $7 billion-plus in net debt, that's still a high leverage ratio. Then today, the company priced a public offering of its shares, selling 46.3

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How Coinbase's Newest Innovation Could Boost Bitcoin's Long-Term Value by Billions

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By creating cbBTC, Coinbase lets users leverage their Bitcoin in DeFi while keeping the original Bitcoin fully backed. However, with the introduction of cbBTC, Bitcoin holders can now leverage their assets within DeFi easily. However, that might be changing as Coinbase has introduced a new Bitcoin-equivalent token: cbBTC.

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3 Things You Need to Know If You Buy Annaly Capital Today

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Technically, mortgage REITs like Annaly usually buy bond-like securities that represent a pooled collection of mortgages, often called something like a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO). Then there's the fact that mortgage REITs like Annaly tend to use leverage to enhance returns. Image source: Getty Images.

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Beach Point Closes Second CLO Totaling $397.44m

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Beach Point’s second Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO). Beach Point Portfolio Manager and head of High Yield and Leveraged Loan strategies Sinjin Bowron said, “We were very pleased with the strong interest in the firm from investors and are excited about the opportunities ahead for our growing CLO platform.

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Carlyle Raises Over $600 Million for its First CLO Captive Equity Fund

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Global investment firm, Carlyle (NASDAQ: CG) today announced the final close of its inaugural collateralized loan obligation (“CLO”) captive equity fund, CLO Partners. The fund raised more than $600 million, exceeding its initial $500 million target.

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A Bull Market Could Be Here: AGNC Investment Isn't the Bargain You Think

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Mortgage REITs buy mortgages that have been cobbled together into bond-like securities, often called collateralized mortgage obligations (CMO). To complicate things, mortgage REITs generally use leverage, often backed by the value of the CMOs it owns, in an attempt to enhance returns. Image source: Getty Images. A lot can go wrong.