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- VAR for Mortgage Backed Securities
- Value at Risk VaR is a mathematical approach for estimating the maximum potential loss of a given portfolio within some field of time with some likelihood of occurrence. Monte Carlo Simulation calculates the potential portfolio loss using market scenarios that were created from historic volatility and correlation estimates. As correlation...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Parameter Stability and the Valuation of Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities
- The paper examines the effect of parameter instability on the valuation of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. In particular, the paper prices 1997 issue mortgages subject to the 1998 bond market rally events assuming an empirically derived prepayment model constructed on data reflecting the 1993 experience and compares results to those...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Webster Financial Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. Operator instructions Our first question is coming from Ken Zerbe with Morgan Stanley. Please state your question. Ken Zerbe – Morgan Stanley Good morning. James Smith Good morning. Ken Zerbe – Morgan Stanley I...
- Earnings calls 2009-01-23
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- Countrywide Financial Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Paul Miller from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. Please go ahead. Paul Miller - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Thank you very much. Angelo, you've been through a lot of these different cycles out there and this doesn't seems to be...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- ARM funds for safety and yield. (adjustable rate home mortgage security mutual funds)
- The adjustable rate home mortgage security ARM mutual fund has become an attractive alternative form of investment since low short-term interests are showing indications of rate improvement. The growing popularity of ARMs is attributed to its ability toThe adjustable rate home mortgage security ARM mutual fund has become an attractive...
- Research articles 1992-07-01
- Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc. to Participate in NYSSA REIT Conference
- VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Bimini Mortgage Management, Inc. (NYSE:BMM), a real estate investment trust that invests primarily in residential mortgage-related securities, today announced that Jeffrey J. Zimmer, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President, and Robert Cauley, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer, will participate in the New York Society...
- Research articles 2005-03-29
- Michael Burns has been hired as a mortgage loan officer for Arvest Bank's U.S. Highway 10 branch in Little Rock
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Burns has been hired as a mortgage loan officer for Arvest Bank's U.S. Highway 10 branch in Little Rock. Burns came to Arvest from First Security Bank and has been a mortgage lender for five years. Also, Keri Yarbrough has been hired as...
- Research articles 2008-11-24
- Poor Math Skills Are a Barrier to Financial Security
- Managing your financial life involves some basic math skills. Nothing terribly complicated, and it's stuff you probably learned by sixth grade. But according to an article I recently read in the Journal of Financial Planning, many people aren't very good at basic math PDF link. That's a problem, because if...
- Blog posts 2009-04-27
- Reuters: Who's Buying Distressed Debt - And Why
- It’s not just Blackrock BLK! Jennifer Ablan provides a helpful roundup of who’s buying distressed debt, and why: BlackRock Inc., Third Avenue Value Management LLC, Trust Company of the West, Pacific Investment Management Co., or Pimco, and Metropolitan West Asset Management have launched or plan to launch...
- External links 2008-08-08
- Retirement Planning: What to Do Now
- Whether you're 25 years away from retirement or you've already started packing up your office, there are specific steps you should now take to ensure your financial security. This step-by-step guide will keep you on track for a stress-free dismount from the corporate treadmill. 20 to 25 Years...
- Articles 2009-10-14
- Kohler on the Crisis | BTalk Australia
- (21min 39) On today’s BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Kohler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Spectator, about the credit crisis. How did it happen? What part did Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae play? Why was the collapse of Lehman Brothers so significant? What will happen next and what, if anything,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- Is the end of the credit crunch finally in sight?
- This week marks the second anniversary of the beginning of the most traumatic global financial crisis in living memory, a crash that has brought banks to their knees, triggered the deepest recession since the 1930s and stretched the finances of some families to breaking point. August 9, 2007, will go...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Retire When You Want To
- Yes, it's possible — if you make a few smart moves while you're working and reconsider where you'll live once you stop. Well, yes, we have. And it’s still...
- Articles 2009-06-29
- Carolina Group Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Your first question is coming from Bob Glasspiegel with Langen McAlenney. Robert Glasspiegel - Langen McAlenney Good morning and let me say I appreciate your answer. And Jimmy I share your confusion at the stock reaction today. I do...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-30
- Need to know: Logitech acquisition ... Macy's loss ... Henkel profits up ...
- View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Unemployment: Official figures showed that the unemployment rate rose by 30,000 to 2.46 million in the three months to the end of September, compared with the figures for the previous quarter. Economic growth: The Bank of England has surprised analysts by...
- News items 2009-11-11
- Check out the Best 401(k)s
- Does your 401k suck? (Or is it just you?) Find out by stacking up yours against three outstanding plans, each with particular strengths, offered by three very different companies: IBM, M. A. Mortenson, and Nationwide. ...
- Articles 2009-03-09
- Lower Your Taxes: 10 Moves to Make Now
- Don?t wait until December to look for ways to trim your 2009 taxes. That will be too late to take advantage of some key tax breaks that require a little time to implement. So start making these moves now ? before it?s too late to claim the write-offs on your...
- Articles 2009-11-02
- Iceland shows the dangers ahead for us all
- In the build-up to the global crisis of 2008, tiny Iceland was a canary in the mine, a leading indicator of wider vulnerabilities. Now, amid growing optimism about global recovery, Iceland may again be a leading indicator of trouble ahead. In the space of a few days last October Iceland's...
- News items 2009-08-26
- This Time, WaMu May Have To Say Yes To Chase
- Earlier this year, New York-based JP Morgan Chase tried to acquire the sagging Washington Mutual in an all-stock deal worth $8 per share. At the time, WaMu's CEO Kerry Killinger's  reply to Chase leader Jamie Dimon was your basic, "thanks, but no thanks." Apparently, Killinger was betting that an infusion of capital from private investors, coupled with an easing...
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- The Fruits of Frugality
- Despite our recent history, Americans haven't always been spendthrifts: from 1950 to 1992, the saving rate averaged 8.6 percent. What a return to a savings rate that high might look like in terms of social habits, the country's mood, and our position in the world…In the wake of the...
- Articles 2009-03-17
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