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Welcome to the Pipeline, Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc.‘s newsletter, a “pipeline” of relevant and useful information, focused on recent trends, changes, and advances in the mortgage investor’s market.

HOUSE PRICES AND LDM V4.0 TEMPERING
Eknath Belbase

In this issue of the Pipeline, we present two articles.

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AD&CO’S ANNUAL HPI OUTLOOK UPDATE: MODERATE GROWTH
Alex Levin

On the last business day of August, Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc. (AD&Co) distributed a new set of data files containing the latest FHFA Home-Price Index (HPI) series through 2026Q2. This information dataset alters the HPI outlook used by AD&Co’s models and systems.

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TEMPERING NON-AGENCY LDM V4.0
Eknath Belbase, Vivian Li

Andrew Davidson & Co., Inc. (AD&Co) recently released a beta version of LDM v4.0. In this article, we evaluate the credit model by comparing current non-QM originations against historical data used in model estimation and rating agency subordination levels. We review the model’s performance under different economic shocks - including recessions, stagflations, and extreme stress scenarios – to establish where intentional parameter “tempering” is required to prevent model overfitting during this beta period.

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Date:
09-2019
Issue:
167
Author:
Andrew Davidson
Feiqi Jiang
Alex Levin
Title: EMPIRICAL DURATIONS AND HEDGE RATIOS: CAN AD&CO’S MODELS EXPLAIN THEM
Date:
09-2019
Issue:
167
Author:
Chris Widman
Title: AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTO LOANS
Date:
06-2019
Issue:
166
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: BULLS INTO SUMMER
Date:
06-2019
Issue:
166
Author:
Dan Szakallas
Title: TEMPERING OUR MODEL FOR THE GNII PREPAY SURGE: TUNING FILES TO THE RESCUE
Date:
06-2019
Issue:
166
Author:
Sanjeeban Chatterjee
Title: THE WORLD OF LOANS UNDERLYING NON-AGENCY SECURITIES
Date:
04-2019
Issue:
165
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: TWISTS, KINKS AND INVERSIONS, OH MY!
Date:
04-2019
Issue:
165
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: THE DYNAMICS OF AGENCY CREDIT RISK AND IMPLIED G-FEE: A 2019 EDITION
Date:
04-2019
Issue:
165
Author:
Richard Cooperstein
Title: ECONOMIC PRINCIPLES AND ENDURING HOUSING FINANCE REFORM
Date:
02-2019
Issue:
164
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: HOME ON THE RANGE
Date:
02-2019
Issue:
164
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: OUTLOOK 2019: HOME ON THE RANGE?
Date:
02-2019
Issue:
164
Author:
Daniel Swanson
Title: A LOOK INTO TRENDED DATA
Date:
02-2019
Issue:
164
Author:
John Gao
Alex Levin
Daniel Swanson
Title: 2019 CCAR SCENARIOS: AD&CO'S ANALYTICS AND DATA FILES
Date:
12-2018
Issue:
163
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: HOLIDAY JITTERS
Date:
12-2018
Issue:
163
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: AD&CO UPDATES ITS HPI OUTLOOK
Date:
12-2018
Issue:
163
Author:
Dan Szakallas
Title: INVESTIGATING THE UNEXPECTED RISE IN PREPAYMENTS IN 2018
Date:
12-2018
Issue:
163
Author:
Sanjeeban Chatterjee
Title: NEW TUNINGS FOR NON-AGENCY LOANDYNAMICS MODEL
Date:
10-2018
Issue:
162
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: A WINDY FALL
Date:
10-2018
Issue:
162
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: COMMONLY IGNORED REALITIES OF HOME-PRICE DYNAMICS
Date:
10-2018
Issue:
162
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: A YEAR OF QUANTITATIVE TIGHTENING (QT)
Date:
09-2018
Issue:
161
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: FLOODING FROM FLORENCE
Date:
09-2018
Issue:
161
Author:
Daniel Swanson
Title: IMPACT OF PAST HURRICANES ON THE MORTGAGE UNIVERSE
Date:
09-2018
Issue:
161
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: LOANKINETICS 1.10 IS COMING SOON: PRODUCT HIGHLIGHTS
Date:
08-2018
Issue:
160
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: FRETTING ABOUT FLATNESS
Date:
08-2018
Issue:
160
Author:
Dan Szakallas
Title: TUNING FILE UPDATES FOR AGENCY LDM
Date:
08-2018
Issue:
160
Author:
Alex Levin
Mickey Storms
John Gao
Title: CECL REPORTING FOR MORTGAGES WITH LOANKINETICS
Date:
06-2018
Issue:
159
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: UP AND BACK IN MAY
Date:
06-2018
Issue:
159
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH AD&CO'S HOME PRICE SIMULATION MODEL: PRACTICAL CASE STUDIES
Date:
06-2018
Issue:
159
Author:
Andrew Wilcox
Title: MULTIFAMILY LDM AND CHANGING ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENTS
Date:
05-2018
Issue:
158
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: THE CRT EDITION'INTRODUCING THE AD&CO CRT INDEX
Date:
05-2018
Issue:
158
Author:
Richard Cooperstein
Alex Levin
Jin Chen
Title: DEMOCRATIZING INVESTMENT IN US MORTGAGE CREDIT RISK: Announcing The AD&Co CRT Total-Rate-of-Return Index
Date:
05-2018
Issue:
158
Author:
Eric Limjoco
Title: A MISSIVE FROM THE FRONT LINE OF AD&CO
Date:
03-2018
Issue:
157
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: RATES, SPREADS & CCAR CHANGES
Date:
03-2018
Issue:
157
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: THINGS (FINALLY) START CHANGING
Date:
03-2018
Issue:
157
Author:
John Gao
Alex Levin
Daniel Swanson
Title: CCAR 2018: AD&CO'S ANALYTICS AND DATA FILES
Date:
02-2018
Issue:
156
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: IS THE ZERO LOWER BOUND PERIOD FINALLY OVER?
Date:
02-2018
Issue:
156
Author:
Daniel Swanson
Title: GRANULAR DELINQUENCY BUCKETS IN LDM 2.2
Date:
02-2018
Issue:
156
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Harry Lijia Qin
Title: A PRIMER FOR STACR AND CAS CREDIT RISK TRANSFER DEALS
Date:
01-2018
Issue:
155
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: A NEW YEAR
Date:
01-2018
Issue:
155
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Harry Lijia Qin
Title: TRENDING TRENDS: WHAT CHANGES CAN WE FORECAST FOR 2018?
Date:
01-2018
Issue:
155
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: AN OAS MODEL FOR MULTIFAMILY AGENCY MBS
Date:
01-2018
Issue:
155
Author:
Rose Barnabic
Title: A QUICK LOOK AT THE FIRST CRT BACKED BY HARP REFERENCE POOL
Date:
12-2017
Issue:
154
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: MERRY MODELING: MULTIFAMILY & REVERSE MORTGAGES ' Will They Go Down in History*?
Date:
12-2017
Issue:
154
Author:
Alex Levin
Title: ON MULTI-FAMILY HOME PRICE MODELING
Date:
12-2017
Issue:
154
Author:
AD&Co Modeling Team
Title: GRAPHS OF THE MONTH: AD&CO'S MULTIFAMILY LDM EVALUATES PREPAYMENT AND CREDIT RISK
Date:
12-2017
Issue:
154
Author:
Mackenzie Meadows
Title: THE NEW REVERSE MORTGAGE LANDSCAPE: A PRIMER (PART III OF III)
Date:
10-2017
Issue:
153
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: RISING INTO FALL
Date:
10-2017
Issue:
153
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Harry Lijia Qin
Title: SLOW AND STEADY: A LOOK AT QUANTITATIVE TIGHTENING
Date:
10-2017
Issue:
153
Author:
Rose Barnabic
Title: ON THE ROAD WITH ANDREW DAVIDSON & CO
Date:
09-2017
Issue:
152
Author:
Eknath Belbase
Title: HAMMERED BY HARVEY AND IRMA
Date:
09-2017
Issue:
152
Author:
Dan Szakallas
Daniel Swanson
Sanjeeban Chatterjee
Title: HARVEY CAME, SAW, AND CAUSED DESTRUCTION