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Martin Kamarck

Principal
MAKO Consulting LLC
Member of the Financial Services Council

Martin Kamarck is Principal of MAKO Consulting, providing strategic advice to clients. He is a director of Quadrant Structured Credit Products, a AAA-rated credit derivatives operating company owned by Magnetar Capital & Lehman Brothers. He recently completed longer-term retainer assignments for a European public company (offshore specialty reinsurance) and Booz Allen Hamilton (catastrophic risk). He has over 32 years of experience in law & business and public & private sectors, with expertise in credit risk management & structured credit. Mr. Kamarck held senior positions in the financial guaranty industry for over 13 years: as General Counsel & Co-Founder of the Structured Finance business at FGIC (Jan 1987 - Mar 1993); and as President of Radian's FG businesses (Apr 1999 - Jan 2006). Prior to Radian, Mr. Kamarck was the President and Chair of the US Ex-Im Bank. He began his career in law as a Partner with Morrison & Foerster, where he was chair of the East Coast business practice. (This is me - Update Profile)


Employment History
2006 - present Principal
MAKO Consulting LLC
1999 - 2006 President
Radian Group Inc.
1997 - 1999 President, COO
AEW CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, L.P (LIMITED PARTNERSHIP)
1993 - 1997 Chairman & President
Export-Import Bank of The United States
1987 - 1993 Managing Director
Financial Guaranty Insurance Company
1975 - 1986 Partner/Chair East Coast Business Practice
MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP

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With the GSEs "Nationalized," Will There Still be a Market for Mortgage Insurance? | 09-15-2008
Analysis of: U.S. bails out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ousts CEOs | www.bizjournals.com
Author: Martin Kamarck, Principal, MAKO Consulting LLC

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

With the GSEs "Nationalized," Will There Still be a Market for Mortgage Insurance? | 09-12-2008
Analysis of: U.S. bails out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ousts CEOs | www.bizjournals.com
Author: Martin Kamarck, Principal, MAKO Consulting LLC

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

With the GSEs "Nationalized," Will There Still be a Market for Mortgage Insurance? | 09-12-2008
Analysis of: U.S. bails out Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, ousts CEOs | www.bizjournals.com
Author: Martin Kamarck, Principal, MAKO Consulting LLC

The GSEs succeeded in supporting the creation of a broad, deep, liquid national market for mortgages.  They used their market power to impose standardization on mortgage terms and underwriting.  Thus was born the "conforming mortgage." Mortgage insurance is an artifact of this history. ...

It's not how broadly you spread it; it's how deep. | 02-28-2008
Analysis of: Arcane Market is Next to Face Big Credit Test | www.nytimes.com
Author: Martin Kamarck, Principal, MAKO Consulting LLC

Lesson of monoline debacle: Core issue is concentration of counterparty risk. 

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