The Institutional Risk Analyst

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If you figure that the seven year portion of the Treasury curve is around 4% today, a nearly 7% yield on EverBank's NDFI loan book seems pretty risky. But in fact the average yield on this loan category was over 10% for all 100 plus banks in Peer Group 1. So while EverBank certainly has a concentration in NDFI lending, it is not the highest yield. JPMorgan (JPM) was 5.9% in Q3, putting the House of Morgan in the 80th percentile of Peer Group 1. 

As we told Daniela Cambone last week, the collapse of private equity and credit could be one of the biggest busts we've ever seen on Wall Street. Why? Because the world of private equity and credit is entirely illiquid, something that retail and even institutional investors cannot tolerate in times of market stress.