Investments

A proposed change could resurrect bond buckets, but loan industry observers also point to "covered fund" changes shielding loans from a potentially disruptive court decision.

Freddie Mac saw a decline in net profit in 2019 due to decreased interest rate income, lower amortization revenue and risk-reducing investment costs, but its consecutive-quarter results improved.

CBAM Partners co-founder Don Young retells the firm's fast rise into one of the larger CLO managers, and discusses the state of the market.

Regulators are alarmed about banks' rising exposure to high-risk corporate credits and want more data on how they would perform in a recession.

Eagle Re 2020-1 is backed by the performance of a reference pool of 156,065 loans with an outstanding balance of $40 billion.

Regulators already finalized a rollback of the proprietary trading ban section of the rule but signaled then that their overhaul was not finished.

Impact investing has long centered on environmental and social purpose, but governance could make huge strides as an ESG consideration in 2020.

Fannie Mae is sponsoring a $1.03B CRT transaction, while Caliber Homes Loans, New Residential and Onslow Bay fill the non-QM pipeline

The BSL CLO will have two-year noncall and five-year reinvestment periods, and brings Seix' total CLO AUM to $3.8 billion.

Rising leverage levels and prevalence of cov-lite loans raise concerns despite ongoing macroeconomic growth signs.