By Covered Bond Investor™ Staff
Tucked away in Fitch Ratings’ recent “Comparative Study of Covered Bonds 2008/09,” which crunches numbers relating to the 105 covered bond programs that Fitch publicly rates, are some interesting facts about the U.S. in comparison to the rest of the world.
Example: Even though U.S. financial institutions have not issued any public [...]

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quote of the day  “When the government parks its tanks on capitalism’s lawns, that spells trouble for those who invest, add value and create jobs,” says Tim Price, director of investments at PFP Wealth Management in London. “Trillion-dollar bailouts do not only leave massive public-sector deficits in their wake, they also leave the presence [...]

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Let it happen or make it happen, it’s up to you! Or, with mortgage rates, it is up to the Fed. The Fed’s buying mortgage-backed securities has kept mortgage rates low, right? And one way to attract private investors to buy mortgage securities is to make the yield attractive, right? Well, Credit Suisse is of [...]

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To Our Clients, Colleagues and Friends,

We’ve received a lot of mail lately regarding Angelo Mozilo, most of it negative. We’ve never met him, and yes, he may have been arrogant.  But let’s look at his career at Countrywide. For 39 years, no one did more to help America ’s homeowners, and no one built a [...]

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