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zerohedge.com / by Tyler Durden / 02/02/2016 18:30 -0500
In the leadup to the financial crisis, lenders did some pretty silly things.
The securitization bonanza and the attendant proliferation of the “originate to sell” model drove lenders to adopt increasingly lax underwriting standards.
Put simply, the pool of creditworthy borrowers is by definition finite. That’s a problem because the securitization machine needs feeding. So what do you do if you’re a lender? Why, you expand the pool of eligible borrowers by making it easier to get a loan.
And we’re not talking about a giving would-be buyers a few FICO points worth of leeway here. We’re talking about the infamous “liar loans” which produced myriad tales of a market run horribly amok as everyone from maids to strippers could buy a McMansion with little to nothing in the way of documentation.
Well don’t look now, but the infamous Alt-As are making a comeback thanks to “big money managers including Neuberger Berman, Pacific Investment Management Co. and an affiliate of Blackstone Group LP [who] are lobbying lenders to make more of these “liar’ loans—or even buying loan-origination companies to control more of the supply themselves,” WSJ reports.
Once again, it’s the same old story. ZIRP has left investors starved for yield and that’s herding money into riskier and riskier assets and creating demand for paper backed by everything from subprime auto to P2P loans. Alt-As can carry rates as high as 8% which obviously looks great to anyone who’s stuck squeezing 300 bps out of something you picked up during last year’s IG issuance bonanza.
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