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Assignment for next week

For next week's assignment, each student will select a country and investigate its strategies for addressing issues arising from the financial crisis. Focus on what measures have been implemented to remedy these problems. To earn extra credit, please prepare a one-page synopsis of your findings in bullet points. Don't forget to attend Office Hours in Room 1047 on the first floor for any questions or assistance regarding the assignment.

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Assignment for next week

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  1. Assignment for next week Each – pick a country Research what that country is doing to remedy problems raised by financial crisis. EXTRA CREDIT: prepare a synopsis of what you find. One page – bullet points! OFFICE: Rm. 1047 [First Floor of this Building] Ofc. Hrs?
  2. Couple of misc. concepts before moving on… Escrow: HYPOTHETICAL: Seller owns an apartment bldg. – FMV = $3 mill. Lender #1: 1st mortgage with = $1 million (bal. due) Lender #2: 2nd mortgage = $400,000 (bal. due) Judgment recorded vs. X in amt. of $100 k Buyer - contracts to buy X’s bldg. for $3 million.
  3. Escrow opens Lender #1: 1st mortgage with = $1 million (bal. due) Lender #2: 2nd mortgage = $400,000 (bal. due) Judgment recorded vs. X in amt. of $100 k Buyer will borrow $2.3 million from Wells Fargo Bank. What does Buyer ultimately want? What does Wells Fargo want? How will Wells Fargo gets what it wants? What will happen to Lender #1 and #2?
  4. ESCROW INSTRUCTIONS Pgs. 54-55 of materials Duty of escrow officer Ultimate result: Title Insurance Policy

  5. The Global Financial Crisis

    Impact on other countries
  6. What did you learn from the assignment for today? This American Life: (2008) Giant Pool of Money–or- some other program?
  7. Secondary mortgage market - pg. 49 What is it? Why does it exist? Mortgages sold by originators Packaged into mortgage-backed securities Sold to investors
  8. Four major participants in Secondary Mtg. Market Who are they? Mortgage originator Aggregator: large mortgage originators with ties to Wall Street firms and government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Securities dealer: Most Wall Street brokerage firms have MBS trading desks. Investor
  9. Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) STEPS (Investopedia): Real estate buyers borrow from financial institutions. Financial institutions sell mortgages to MBS entities. MBS entities form mortgage pools. Individuals invest in mortgage pools.
  10. Types of MBS Pass-through or participation certificate Direct ownership in pool of mortgages Get pro rata share of all pymts made Prepayment – affects yield Collateralizated Mortgage Obligation (CMO) Pools of pass-through mortgages: Pass-Through Securities CMO Issuer Individual Investors
  11. Sequential Pay Collateralized Mortgage Obligation (CMO) CMO issuers - distribute cash flow to bondholders from a series of classes, called tranches. Each tranche holds mortgage- backed securities with similar maturity and cash flow patterns. CMO issuer – 1st pays stated coupon interest rate to bondholders in each tranche. Principal payments go first to the investors in the first tranches. Once they are paid off, investors in later tranches will receive principal pymts.
  12. Who are the investors in Mortgage Backed Securities? Foreign governments Pension Funds Insurance Companies Banks Hedge Funds – sophisticated investors U.S. – must be accredited (certain income/net worth) Speculative investments/large risk
  13. Housing bubble burst – 2006/2007 Value of securities tied to U.S. Real Estate Qs re/ bank solvency, credit availability, Investor confidence Caused global stock markets to plummet 2008/2009 Credit – tightened; trade slowed
  14. Example: BNP Paribas Aug. 9, 2007: "a complete evaporation of liquidity", blocked withdrawals from three hedge funds. The significance of this event was not immediately recognized but soon led to a panic as investors and savers attempted to liquidate assets deposited in highly leveraged financial institutions.
  15. BNP Paribas is one of the world's largest global banking groups, headquartered in Paris, with its second global headquarters in London. In 2012, BNP Paribas was ranked by Bloomberg and Forbes as the fourth largest bank in the world, as measured by total assets.
  16. CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP (AIG) Explain Insured obligations of fin. institutions AIG received premium in exchange for promise to pay $ to party A if party B defaulted U.S. govt. had to bail it out – taxpayers provided over $180 billion to AIG (2008/09)
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