{"id":35647,"date":"2013-05-20T11:40:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35647"},"modified":"2013-05-20T11:48:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-20T15:48:53","slug":"hedge-funds-investing-in-junk-mortgage-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/hedge-funds-investing-in-junk-mortgage-bonds.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Investing In Junk Mortgage Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/San_Diego_Home_Mortgage_Loan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-35651 alignright\" alt=\"Home_Mortgage_Loan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/San_Diego_Home_Mortgage_Loan.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/San_Diego_Home_Mortgage_Loan.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/San_Diego_Home_Mortgage_Loan-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>New York (HedgeCo.Net) Hedge funds are speculating that some of the\u00a0mortgage insurers hit the worst\u00a0by the U.S.\u00a0housing crisis\u00a0will big\u00a0winners in the rebound.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds Paulson &amp; Co. and Maverick Capital have both made serious investments into the struggling sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Maverick, run by\u00a0Lee Ainslie, added 23.6 million shares of\u00a0MGIC Investment Corp. (MTG)\u00a0in the first quarter as the stock almost doubled, according to regulatory filings. Billionaire John Paulson\u2019s $18 billion hedge-fund firm acquired 17 million shares of MGIC and 8 million of rivalRadian Group Inc. (RDN).&#8221; <em>Bloomberg reports.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mortgage insurers cover losses when homeowners default and foreclosures fail to recoup costs. The coverage is typically required when homeowners make a down payment of less than 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Akesson<br \/>\nFor\u00a0<a title=\"hedge funds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:alex@hedgeco.net\">alex@hedgeco.net<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund database\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0<a title=\"hedge fund\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/\">Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.Net) Hedge funds are speculating that some of the\u00a0mortgage insurers hit the worst\u00a0by the U.S.\u00a0housing crisis\u00a0will big\u00a0winners in the rebound. Hedge funds Paulson &amp; Co. and Maverick Capital have both made serious investments into the struggling sector. &#8216;Maverick, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16044,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-strategies-2","category-hedgeco-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35647\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}