Investments

Arch's second CRT transaction this year to obtain indemnity reinsurance for mortgage-insurance premiums comes at a time it is also experiencing rising 60-plus-day delinquencies on its outstanding securitized pools.

Blackstone Group, which led Wall Street's initial foray into the single-family rental business, is making a new investment in suburban houses at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is pressuring traditional commercial real estate.

There’s been a flurry of interest in so-called fallen angels recently as investors seek alternatives to the ultra-low yields on high-grade debt.

The transaction is the first in two years for MidCap, which provides startup and expansion financing for biosciences/healthcare and technology firms backed by VC and private equity.

While cutting losers to buy winners is an age-old investment proposition, the Covid-19 pandemic may create even more openings than the past crises that became bonanzas for real estate investors.

There were questions about the GSEs' use of structured credit risk transfers in the single-family market given an earlier pandemic-related market disruption.

The industry’s turmoil, including 'strategic options' being pursued by corporate debt obligors like Transocean and Seadrill, has sparked the biggest wave of restructurings since 2017, when the effects of the last oil price downturn reverberated through the industry.

Investors should consider alternatives such as private credit as they search for positive yield in a world of low or negative interest rates, according to asset manager Nuveen LLC.

Ginnie Mae helped to fund more than $70 billion in loans aimed at helping low- and moderate-income borrowers in July.

As the tally of corporate defaults climbs, the potential for collateralized loan obligation ETFs may pose a risk for retail investors, according to GTS Mischler Principal Reggie Browne.

The private equity megalith's mortgage trust made a second-quarter net income of over $17.5 million and $85.2 million in core earnings.

After receiving a third-party stamp of approval, Fannie Mae announced July 27 completing the latest two issuances of a single-family green mortgage backed security as part of an ongoing program that started in April and expands its long-time multi-family green MBS program.

There is hope among issuers that the structural changes brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic can bolster CLO resiliency, thereby enabling market participants to better weather the next economic storm.

The mortgage REIT's external manager responded by filing a new lawsuit against it, calling the move "baseless and retaliatory."

The coronavirus impact in the U.,S. alone has resulted in a 30% year-over-year decline across securitizations, CLOs and MBS.

Ocwen Financial's preliminary second-quarter results put it back in the black, and it is positioning its growing distressed-servicing expertise and pandemic-induced exposures as a net positive.

The Detroit lender disclosed that the consumer bureau had sent a civil investigative demand to Rocket Homes Real Estate for potential violations of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act.

The big drop in CLO equity this year signals investor fear that this downturn will be more like the 1998 to 2003 period, where company defaults rise and stay elevated over the course of years, and profiting from improving prices in loans is hard.

he report concluded that the industry should fare well compared with its peers, but that loans to mid-sized European companies remained vulnerable to fall-out from Covid-19.

B. Riley FBR raised its ratings for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to sell from neutral on the possibility the net worth sweep is declared illegal.