‘Sparks, Daniel L
Thursday, March 08, 2007 12:50 AM
‘Winkelried, Jon (EO 85630); Montag, Tom; Viniar, Davi
Cohn, Gary (EO 8883
‘Sherwood, Michael §; McMahon, Bill; Broderick, Graig
ce: Ruzika, Richard
Subject: ‘Mortgage risk
Gust spent tonight negotiating with Acevedited - they plan to send us $21mm in the
morning, we have new information on loans in the warehouse line that allows us to reel
comfortable raining the Loan mark by $10mm, and we will buy $50mm of A-1 rated ABCE
(accredited vehicle} from accounts (we feel that the collateral is pretty good) that rolls
Thursday which will prevent ASCP extension. Then all of cur EPD claims in subprime would
be resolved = we may have a small Alt A claims (probably under $imm). If this happens, the
outcome is good. New Century remains a problem on EPD.
Aside (rom the counterparty risks, the large risks I worry about are listed below:
(2) po and Residential Loan securitization stoppage - either via buyer strike or dramatic
rating agency change.
on the CbO front, we have been locking people at various parts of the capital structure
(uith @ primary Focus on the super-seniors ~ top 508 of the deal), and rushing to get
deals rated. We have liquidated a few deals and could liquidate a couple more, and we are
hot adding risk (we had slowed down cur business dramatically in the past 4 months}, Our
deals break down into 2 $188 Coos of A-cdos (most risky, but good progress), 2 $1BB AA
diversified deals (less downside, less progress), and A other various smaller deals. We
have various risk sharing arrangements, but deal unwinds are very painful
For residential loans, we have not bought mach lately and our Largest pool to eecuritze is
ALt A ($4,355). There is also $1,388 subprime loans and $70dmm seasoned seconds. This
mazket is also very difficult to execute in.
(2) Dramatic credit environment downturn.
Serateh @ dent loans ($90¢mm}, residuals ($756mn), and less 1iguid bond positions - if the
credit environnent significantly worsens, these positions will be hurt by losses, further
lack of Liquidity and lower prices.
(3) Covering our shorts. We have longs against them, but we are still net short.
$48 single name subprime split evenly between A, 888, BBE- and $1.3BB of A-rated Coos.
ABK index ~ overall the department has significant shorts against loan books and the CoO
warehouse. The bulk of these shorts ($985) are on the AAA index, so the downside is
Limited a the index trades at 98
Our shorts in (3) above have provided significant protection so far, and should be helpful
for {1) and (2) in very bad times. However, there is real visk that in medium moves we get
huct in all 3 areas.
Therefore, we are trying to close everything down, but stay on the short side. But ie
takes tims as liquidity is tough. And we will Likely do some other things like buying puts
0 companies with exposures te mortgages.
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Prom: Winkelried, Jon (0 85530}
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5; MeWahon, Bill
Ga: Ruaika, Richard
Subject: Re: Originator exposures
Thanks for that summary. Not bed
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From: Sparks, Daniel b
To: Mentag, Tom; Viniar, David; Winkelried, Jons Cohn, Gary; Sherwood, Michael S} McMahon,
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ce: Ruzika, Richard
Sent: Kad Mar 07 12:09:03 2907
Subject: Originater exposures
Rich and I were catching up. I will send this group another message of our potential large
risk areas a5 further stress happens, and our mitigation plans.
As for the big 3 originators ~ Accredited, New Century and Fremont, cur real exposure is
An the form of put-back claims. gasically, if we get nothing back we would lose around
360mm vs liz loans on our books (we have A reserve of §30nm) and the loans in che trusts
Gould lose around $60nm (we probably suffer about 1/3 of this in ongoing exposures}. The
reason it is not clear is that the loans are not worth 0, there is some value, so there
are estimates as co wnat happens on those loans.
Rumor today is that the FEI is in Accredited.
Other big risk areas I will discuss later relate to CDO and loan execution [rating agency
or mazket shutdown), covering eingle name and index shorts (liquidity), and recained
residuals and loan fesitions (