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NEW YORK -- Fannie Mae CEO Daniel Mudd strongly defended the company's retained portfolio business in a conference call last week, saying that interest rate risk is low and the portfolio helps stabilize the U.S. mortgage market.
He said Fannie Mae's duration gap, a key measure of interest rate risk exposure in the portfolio, was currently at zero months. He said the duration gap has remained in the range of plus or minus one month so far during his tenure at the mortgage secondary market giant. "I don't expect duration to remain this low forever," he added during a conference call hosted by UBS.
Mr. Mudd said Fannie Mae's work to keep interest rate risk low "is not an accident," adding that both the company's board and its regulator constantly monitor its risk exposure.
Mr. Mudd said that Fannie Mae offsets "50% to ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Mudd Defends Portfolio Role.(Daniel Mudd )(Brief article)