• HREMIC issuance for all of 2013 was off 18% from 2012, with 26 transactions totaling $4.95 billion. In 2012, 31 transactions totaling just over $6 billion were issued. HREMIC issuance fell sharply in the fourth quarter, with only 3 HREMICs totaling $313 million. No HREMICs were issued in December 2013, marking the first month since…

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  • HMBS issuance totaled $7.11 billion for the first three quarters of 2013, with 757 pools issued. There are now 11 active HMBS issuers with the newest entrant AAG issuing 14 pools for nearly $288 million, more than 4% of all issuance and already sixth in the 9-months league table rankings. RMS continues its reign as…

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  • See below for a link to the Excel spreadsheet that accompanied today’s presentation.  Please feel free to call us with any questions. TX RM Day Duration

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  • Ten issuers issued exactly 500 HMBS pools in the first half of 2013, totaling $4.909 billion. 256 of these HMBS pools, totaling just over $2.5 billion, were issued in the second quarter, marking a 4% increase over the first quarter of 2013. RMS continues to be the market leader, issuing more than 35% of all…

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  • 244 HMBS pools totaling nearly $2.4 billion were issued in the first quarter of 2013. RMS retained its position as the top HMBS issuer by dollar amount, issuing 63 pools totaling nearly $905 million. RMS was followed by Urban Financial, Live Well, and Generation Mortgage, issuers of approximately $682.6 million, $275.2 million, and $243.5 million,…

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  • First quarter 2013 HREMIC issuance matched last year’s record pace, with 8 HREMICs totaling $1.6 billion, according to Ginnie Mae data. Last year, 31 HREMICs came to market, totaling just over $6 billion. BofA Merrill Lynch edged out Knight Capital for the top underwriter/sponsor in the first quarter of 2013, leading 3 offerings totaling just…

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  • HMBS issuance declined for the second year in a row, tracking the decline in HECM supply. 628 HMBS pools totaling nearly $8.6 billion were issued in 2012, down from $9.9 billion last year and almost 20% below 2010’s record $10.7 billion. For 2012, RMS was the top HMBS issuer, issuing 125 pools totaling nearly $2.6…

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  • Ginnie Mae’s HMBS and HREMIC programs serve as the main engine of finance for the reverse mortgage industry. According to Ginnie Mae’s published data, a record 31 HREMICs totaling $6.013 billion were issued in 2012, double the amount issued in 2011. For 2012, BofA Merrill Lynch was again the top underwriter/sponsor, leading 10 offerings totaling…

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  • December 15, 2012 To the Editor, Re: “Mortgages in Reverse” editorial of December 15-16, 2012 Your editorial suggesting that FHA-insured reverse mortgages (called the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or “HECM”) should be eliminated is akin to throwing out the baby with the bath water. The conditions that once allowed for a thriving private reverse mortgage…

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  • The FHA released its FY 2012 HECM Actuarial Study and MMI Fund Report on November 16. The report reflects many changes to their economic and modeling assumptions, resulting in significantly higher projected losses for the HECM program. This is a dramatic turnaround from just a year ago. We criticized last year’s FHA actuarial study for…

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