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Christopher Whalen
R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 16, 2022
- 6 min
The Year That Was: 2022
Many in the Buy Side chorus are looking forward to lower interest rates, but we are concerned that next year could really be about solvency
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
Record Losses for Mortgage Banks Presage Tough Year Ahead
Is 2023 the year of the Return of the Distressed Loan Trade?
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 4, 2022
- 5 min
TIAA Sells Everbank; Mortgage Earnings Wrap
The big news this week starts with the poor showing by Rocket Companies (RKT), reporting a loss for Q3 2022 and a big decline in volumes.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 17, 2022
- 6 min
No End to Conservatorship for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will likely sit in conservatorship indefinitely unless and until Congress acts first.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 6, 2022
- 6 min
Memo to Gary Gensler: Beware the “Non-Controlling Interest”
As a result of the adoption of "artificial intelligence," the 21st Century investor is mostly a victim in waiting.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Feb 25, 2022
- 7 min
Update: HMPT, RKT, NRZ & UPST
UPST has seen its valuation cut by 60% since March of last year, when its common equity traded at a mere 31x book value.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 12, 2021
- 6 min
Update: Blend Labs, Guild Mortgage and United Wholesale Mortgage
To paraphrase our friend and fellow mortgage maven Rob Chrisman, ponder a 2022 lending market that’s 75% purchases and just 4.79 million uni
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Nov 8, 2021
- 6 min
Update: Rocket Companies, PennyMac Financial Services & Home Point
When issuers like RKT and PFSI are paying up for servicing assets, you know that the secondary loan market is getting tougher by the day.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 23, 2021
- 7 min
Interview: Lee Smith, Flagstar Bank
We expect to see a lot more M&A activity over the next 12 – 18 months, as that’s the only way for some players to grow share.
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 19, 2021
- 6 min
Fed Chairman Jay Powell as RobinHood
There is, after all, no free lunch for investors when the Fed is serving the thin meal of Financial Repression
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 16, 2021
- 5 min
Update: Rocket Companies and United Wholesale Mortgage
Growing numbers of investors are burned by mortgage stocks. Big question: Will the industry snap back due to now falling interest rates?
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Aug 9, 2021
- 5 min
Update: Mr. Cooper & New Residential Investment
The big surge in income and net worth caused by the FOMC last year is rapidly ending. Winter has returned to mortgage land...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 30, 2021
- 7 min
Profile: Blend Labs, Inc ("BLND")
Is BLND worth more than RKT, or entrenched data monopolies and solution providers such as BKI or even CLGX?
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Jun 8, 2021
- 7 min
Icons of Meme Investing
Fed Chairman Jay Powell effectively is short an equity put option to the world...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- May 14, 2021
- 6 min
Update: Rocket Companies & United Wholesale Mortgage
We view RKT's refusal to provide this material information to investors as a significant omission in its public disclosure...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
Is XRP a Security? And Is Everything About FOMO?
Whether you are chasing alpha in stocks or buying crypto tokens or making non-agency mortgage loans, the maddening crowd is FOMO...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Apr 5, 2021
- 13 min
Update: Commercial, Residential Loans & MSRs
We continue to believe that issuers and funds should be accumulating conventional servicing. Rates bottomed in February...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Mar 29, 2021
- 8 min
Nonbanks Face Labyrinth of Risk from COVID Loans
Given that IMBs now service two-thirds of all 1-4 family residential mortgage loans, the risk to the nonbanks from COVID is growing...
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R. Christopher Whalen
- Dec 28, 2020
- 8 min
Outlook 2021: Financials & Credit Markets
New issue volumes in all of the major securities asset classes other than Treasury debt are trending lower as 2021 begins....
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