CDOs/CLOs

Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market Managers Proceeds (mils) Rank Mkt. Share # of Issues Citigroup 7,352.6 1 20.1 14 Morgan Stanley 5,873.6 2 16.0 11 Merrill Lynch & Co Inc 5,143.5 3 14.0 11 Credit Suisse First Boston 4,203.5 4 11.5 9 Deutsche Bank AG 3,841.8 5 10.5 7 JP Morgan 3,071.2 6 8.4 7 UBS 2,368.0 7 6.5 5 Banc of America Securities LLC 2,090.1 8 5.7 6 Lehman Brothers 956.3 9 2.6 2 BANK ONE Corp 507.6 10 1.4 1 Industry Total 36,663.0 - 100.0 37 Source: Thomson Financial

Year to date as of Dec 31 Coupon Type Market Average Life Buckets Asset Class Volume Pub/144A Fixed Rate Floating Rate Public 144A 0.0 to 0.9 1.0 to 2.9 3.0 to 5.9 6.0 to 7.9 8.0 to 11.0 Aircraft Leases 3,429 2,202 1,227 3,429 2,402 457 361 208 Auto Loans/Recs 79,778 61,318 18,460 75,534 4,244 24,112 39,688 15,718 125 113 Cash 599 249 350 599 599 Commercial Loans 311 188 123 311 311 Corp Bond/Note 5,803 1,901 3,869 5,803 3,317 874 468 1,144 Corporate Loans 8,069 606 7,426 8,069 2,124 1,206 161 2,624 1,932 Credit Card Rec 63,350 17,611 45,739 62,369 981 20,969 5,408 31,974 2,000 3,000 Equip Loans 547 547 547 177 338 32 Equip. Leases 9,128 5,167 3,960 6,684 2,443 3,230 4,743 1,080 75 Floorplan Recs 7,846 2,132 5,714 7,010 836 2,532 1,790 3,524 Franchisee Loans 728 728 728 500 109 Home Impr Loans 8 8 8 8 Junk Bonds 8,429 1,764 6,665 8,429 3,018 2,390 3,020 Leases 1,388 1,388 1,388 760 178 Loans 2,998 2,998 2,998 2,998 Mnfrd Housing Ct 714 593 121 575 139 103 186 11 359 Mutual Fund Fees 991 116 875 991 991 Non-Jumbo Mtg Ln 79,501 32,348 43,931 71,558 7,943 39,095 17,259 21,427 1,262 307 Oil Receivables 750 750 750 750 Preferred Sec 2,087 678 1,385 2,087 854 108 204 921 Prv Issued Sec 1,899 1,159 615 198 1,701 1,899 Rental Car Rec. 4,125 2,400 1,725 1,000 3,125 1,500 460 2,165 Rev Cred/Home Eq 216,940 89,161 116,586 195,563 21,377 93,366 67,482 49,224 4,577 2,064 Sm Business Loan 845 845 845 401 444 Struc Fin Credit 27,697 5,616 22,045 27,697 12,238 758 4,851 5,463 4,306 Student Loans 39,450 1,900 30,551 32,680 6,770 11,818 6,150 10,269 7,338 2,513 Tax Liens 86 86 86 86 Ticket Rec 220 10 210 220 220 Timeshare Loans 848 715 133 848 170 678 Tobacco Receives 154 154 154 154 Trade Recs 225 105 120 225 225 Unspecified/NA 667 542 125 667 667 Note: Figures are preliminary and subject to change. Data includes U.S. deals and dollar Euro 144As.Source: Thomson Financial

Rev Cred/Home Eq 38% Auto Loans/Recs 14% Non-Jumbo Mtg Ln 14% Credit Card Rec 11% Student Loans 7% Other 16%

A market anomaly in underlying benchmark yield curve dynamics has caused two-year auto paper - historically the most difficult sell in the capital structure - to be shortened slightly and indexed off EDSF rather than interbank swaps. The investor community has demanded this structural change in reaction to current secondary-market quoting methods.

With the return of the CDO bid, one of the biggest winners of late has been home-equity ABS triple-B minus rated subordinates. Routinely pricing with an 800 basis point margin versus Libor, this year, top-tier triple-B minus bonds have cracked the 500 basis point threshold and are now approaching 400 basis point area over Libor.

AIG Life Co. is still rolling out deals that capture the arbitrage between life insurance and annuities. And these deals reportedly come with an interesting twist: The cash is destined for charities.

With $10.5 billion priced and an additional $1.5 billion set to price late in the week, the U.S. ABS primary market is making its last push of the year. Sources did expect the supply to continue into this week before dying off before Christmas.

Brad A. Morrice, vice chairman of mortgage lender New Century Financial Corp., projects the company's production will grow to $30 billion in 2004, adding that New Century was on track to hit its $27 billion target this year. Morrice recently spoke at the Friedman Billings Ramsey Group's investor conference.

With a new angle on monetizing intellectual property, IP Innovations Financial Services recently scored $28 million in start-up capital from Principal Financial Group, for the purpose of guaranteeing loans secured by IP assets.

What a difference a year makes, particularly regarding structured finance. After cycling through a record wave of downgrades in 2002, the CDO market has finally begun to show some ratings stability.