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Lambert Strether, in an e-mail titled “A data conversion effort that shows FCIC’s “Resource Library” is farcically bad and obfuscatory” noted: Obviously, any independent evaluation of the material is not at all a priority with these guys. Yes, they’ve made it easy enough to DISTRIBUTE, and no doubt there will be an iPhone app any day now.
When hedge funds are too boring. Laurence Fletcher reports today on rich individuals with high risk appetites who are getting frustrated with modest hedge fund returns:
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Wall Street Collects $4 Billion From Taxpayers as Swaps Backfire. The subprime mortgage crisis isn’t the only calamity Wall Street created that’s upending the finances of U.S. states and cities.
For more than a decade, banks and insurance companies convinced governments and nonprofits that financial engineering would lower interest rates on bonds sold for public projects such as roads, bridges and schools. That failed promise has cost more than $4 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as hundreds of borrowers from the Bay Area Toll Authority in Oakland, California, to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, quietly paid Wall Street to end agreements since 2008. California’s water resources department this year spent $305 million unwinding interest-rate bets that backfired, handing over the money to banks led by New York-based Morgan Stanley.
North Carolina paid $59.8 million in August, enough to cover the annual salaries of about 1,400 full-time state employees. Budget Deficits $4 Billion. Global Economics - Nouriel Roubini's EconoMonitor. An Effort to Adapt a European-Style Tool to U.S. Mortgages. A covered bond is a securitized debt instrument backed by a pool of high-quality assets, usually mortgages.
But unlike the assets in a securitized mortgage bond, the assets in a covered bond, known as a cover pool, are kept on the issuer’s balance sheet. This may provide an extra measure of safety, as the issuer will be less likely to underwrite risky loans, experts say. There is no established market for the bonds in the United States, though they are a $3 trillion business overseas and lately have been attracting American institutional investors. This year, Representative Scott Garrett, Republican of New Jersey, introduced a bill that would establish a covered bond framework here. The House Financial Services Committee passed the bill in July, and it narrowly missed being included in the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul law.
Experts predict that covered bond legislation could pass both houses next year. “Banks need alternative methods for financing mortgages,” said Jerry R. While Mr. Mr. National Venture Capital Association. Finance. Commercial Financing Specialist For Income Properties. LSTA Home Page. Privateequity 1.
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