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Morningstar tweaked ratings of paying clients, SEC claims
The company's credit ratings unit let analysts make adjustments that resulted in higher ratings on commercial mortgage-backed securities, the agency alleges.
Securitization makes a comeback
Breakfast with Benjamin: Securitization comes back and it's not all bad...Plus, how JPMorgan is positioned for rising rates, Deutsche Bank suspends currency traders, GM pays a dividend, and more minimum wage math.
New love for mortgage REITs
2014 could be a good year for mortgage REITs and here's why. Plus: Which housing markets are vulnerable to rising rates, gold-mining stocks for the truest gold bugs, an ETF end zone dance, social media apps took over in 2013, and more proof of Obamacare bumbling.
Markets brace for housing, consumer confidence data
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Markets brace for big economic data, insider selling at 30-year high, SEC tries to get tough, measuring Fed-speak, and how to behave at the company holiday party. Curated by InvestmentNews' senior columnist Jeff Benjamin
Finding safe havens in fixed income as rates climb
The key to finding out whether investors are exposed to too much fixed income or just the wrong fixed income is to look at the typical refuges in a rising rate environment.
They’re b-a-a-c-k! Mortgage bonds hitting the market
Mortgage-backed bonds are hitting the market once again. But questions are already being asked about the risks -- and ratings -- of the home-loan securities.
Non-agency mortgage bonds return to the marketplace
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is planning its second sale of U.S. home loan securities without government backing since…
More from Gross: Fed stuck with bad bonds forever
Pimco boss doesn't foresee full unwinding of obligations from quantitative easing
Wells Fargo to pay $6.5M in MBS settlement
Wells Fargo & Co. will pay more than $6.5 million to settle charges from the Securities and Exchange…
Genworth’s Joelson steps down from running $75B portfolio
Genworth's chief investment officer Ronald Joelson, who oversees $75 billion in assets, is leaving to join Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.
Gross is buying mortgage-backed debt
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC, cut the fund's…
Advisers should tread carefully in subprime market
Arecent rally in subprime-mortgage-backed bonds, which were widely reviled as being among the root causes of the financial…
Bill Gross selling Treasuries, buying these bonds
For the first time in a year, Pimco's Bill Gross reduced his holdings in U.S. Treasuries. So what's the bond king know that we don't?
‘Hedge fund surrogate’ generating returns of 7%-9%
The Innovator Matrix Income Fund utilizes eight categories of pass-throughs to generate a return of 7%-9%.
Judge rejects Citigroup SEC mortgage securities accord
Citigroup Inc.'s $285 million settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over mortgage-backed securities was rejected by federal judge who said he hadn't been given enough facts to approve it.
Pimco pumped on Freddie, Fannie debt
Pacific Investment Management Co. says investors should buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities that slumped in response to planned changes to the government-supported companies' refinancing rules.
Pimco: MBS that fell after refi rules a buy
Investors should buy Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac mortgage-backed securities, which have slumped in response to planned changes to the government-supported companies' refinancing rules, according to Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC
Regions Financial still seeks buyer for Morgan Keegan
Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc. won a small victory last week when a class action brought by investors in a Tennessee state court was dismissed by a federal judge. But it doesn't look as if the troubled securities firm is any closer to being sold than when its parent company, Regions Financial Corp., put it up for sale three months ago
BofA wealth management untouched by record loss from mortgages
Bank of America Corp. is continuing to invest in its wealth management division, despite suffering a record loss from mortgages.
Crisis? What crisis? Slice-and-dice bond offerings back in vogue
Securitized bonds tied to home loans once again generating healthy returns; supply will shrink dramatically in 2011
