There is a scarcity of investors at this year’s ABS East conference hosted by Information Management Network.

The stormy Miami weather at Information Management Network's ABS East conference on Monday was an apt metaphor for the problems facing the mortgage market.

Money managers are hoping pension funds and insurance companies will become big buyers of leveraged loans, picking up the slack from CLOs.

Loan servicer C-III Capital Partners has committed to put $10 million into commercial real estate services firm Grubb & Ellis Co. by investing in a line of credit issued earlier this year by Colony Capital.

Residential lenders issued $350.3 billion of Ginnie Mae MBS in fiscal year 2011, down 15% from the previous fiscal year, according to new figures released by the the agency.

Information and analytics provider CoreLogic and Amherst Holdings have jointly introduced Agency Prepayment Analyzer.

Markit has launched an index that tracks the aggregate return of roughly 100 of the most liquid dollar-denominated leveraged loans, the financial information services company announced today.

Master servicers have been instrumental in dealing with the robosigning debacle in existing securitization deals, said participants at Information Management Network’s ABS East Conference on Sunday.

When it comes to bond pricing, one message that rang out clear at Information Management Network’s ABS East Conference on Sunday: investors need to do their own homework and make sure they know what’s behind the valuation tools they employ.

Dutch RMBS has proven to be one of the rare bright spots in post-crisis European ABS, which could inspire U.S. investors to take a look at the sector, Standard & Poor’s said in a recent report.

Walker & Dunlop closed on a $13.5 million Freddie Mac acquisition loan for a Priderock Capital Partners, LLC property.