A quick recap of what has already been discussed leading into the next segment of this paper. Fannie Mae (FNM) was created in 1938 as a mortgage association and in 1968 it became a Government Sponsored Enterprise (GSE). Freddie Mac (FM) also known as the federal home loan mortgage association was created as a GSE. Both organizations were in the business for buying mortgages from banks and turning them into mortgage backed securities. The differences of the two GSE’s are that FNM would tend to
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sub-prime issues‚ The Business Time Singapore‚ 10 September 2007 5) Janadas Devan‚ Sub-Prime: Words that hid a crisis‚ The Straits Time‚ 2 September 2007 6) Eric Petroff‚ September 2007. Who Is To Blame For The Subprime Crisis? (Online) Available from: http://www.investopedia.com/articles/07/subprime-blame.asp#ixzz1zNTpts3v. Cited 01 July 2012. 7) Diana B. Henriques. Bernie Madoff The wizard of lies. 2011. USA & Canada. Times Book. 8) Rex Nutting‚ MarketWatch. October 2008. Regulators say they made
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1.) Investment Strategies: The investment strategy of the High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Master Fund was to raise capital from investors and that capital was used to buy “collateralized debt obligations” backed by highly rated subprime mortgage back securities. These CDO’s had a higher rate than that of their borrowing rate‚ thus‚ they had added to their expected return by levering more and then buying more CDO’s. To hedge some of the risk of the underlying asset‚ they bought credit default
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Draft- Confidential Khan‚ Iliasu‚ Chowdhry 1 Preventing Residential Mortgage Crises: An Islamic Finance Perspective By Waleed Khan a ‚ Dr. Fatimah B. M. Iliasu b & Sajjad Chowdhry c Abstract The 2008 Financial Crisis has compelled the international financial industry‚ politicians and homeowners to search their souls for the root causes of the problem. Many point to insufficient regulatory supervision‚ others to a culture addicted to credit and sheer greed. While these issues certainly exist‚ we
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with the US subprime mortgage crisis. One of the main culprits that is often pointed to as one of the main triggers of the global financial crisis are the mortgage derivative products‚ where risky mortgages were packaged with more traditionally secure mortgages and sold to corporate investors and other banks as secure investment products. This packaging of mortgages is generally accepted to have masked the real risks that were linked with such a product‚ which gradually grew as lending criteria were
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The financial crisis began in early 2006 when the subprime mortgage market in the U.S. began to display an increasing rate of mortgage defaults. These defaults lead‚ in late 2006‚ to a decline in US housing prices after nearly a decade of exceptionally high growth. Many Americans watched as their primary source of wealth become increasingly devalued. By late 2007‚ the prime mortgage markets were showing higher than normal default rates as well. Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)‚ a
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operating globally with headquarters in New York. The firm had been in operation for 85 years when its outsized position in subprime mortgages raised questions from investors‚ clients‚ and counterparties about the bank’s balance sheet and the quality of its assets. A failed hedge fund sponsored by a subsidiary of the bank in 2007 had brought unwanted questions about subprime loans in general in an increasingly wary market. Bear Stearns had a reputation as an aggressive trading bank willing to take
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trend became booming in America. All kinds of assets you can imagine can be securitized and were packaged on the market for trading. Mortgage‚ sub-mortgage and credit card collection were securitized and were used as collateral for borrowing and lending capital. After 21th century‚ with the fast development of technology‚ especially personal computer‚ various sophisticated financial derivatives‚ which had been so pretentious and stood high above the masses‚ seemed to become so popular that can be
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7 Chapter The Global Financial Crisis The global financial crisis had widespread effects. Out of work like many‚ marketing executive Chuck Bridges 138 wears a variation of the “will work for food” sign. M07_PAYN4592_04_SE_C07.indd 138 06/01/12 6:11 PM Chapter 7 The Global Financial Crisis 139 IntroduCtIon Financial crises and accompanying economic recessions have occurred throughout history. Periodic crises appear to be part of financial systems of dominant or global
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The accounting issues surrounding mortgage backed securities and the collapse of Bear Stearns Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Bear Stearns and their Activities Prior to its Collapse 4 Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) and Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) 5 Accounting Theory‚ Mortgage Backed Securities‚ and the Collapse of Bear Stearns 6 The Offsetting Nature of Relevance and Reliability 7 Fair Value Accounting 9 Information Asymmetry 11 Adverse Selection 11 Moral Hazard
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