Manager Activity: Real Estate ABS

Published August 21, 2006, 12:00 a.m. EDT

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Full Credit to Book (Equal if Joint) U.S. Public ABS Market/144A Market

Managers	Proceeds (mils)	Rank	Mkt. Share	# of Issues

Lehman Brothers	36,779.5	1	10.2	85
Countrywide Securities Corp	31,733.9	2	8.8	50
Royal Bank of Scotland Group	31,220.0	3	8.7	76
Credit Suisse	27,916.1	4	7.8	74
Morgan Stanley	27,249.1	5	7.6	28
Deutsche Bank AG	25,876.4	6	7.2	55
Bear Stearns & Co Inc	23,012.5	7	6.4	70
Merrill Lynch & Co Inc	21,122.1	8	5.9	36
Citigroup	19,526.3	9	5.4	52
Goldman Sachs & Co	19,441.5	10	5.4	42

Industry Total	359,710.1	-	100.0	695

Source: Thomson Financial

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