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May 19, 2008
Kill Two Birds with One Stone - Outsource IT, Marketing Materials and Reporting
Analysis of: Brokers to cut technology spending by 7% | www.financialnews-us.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Modern investment banking, brokerage and asset management live and die with top flight IT systems. Risk and Information Management are at the core of the securities business. Reducing costs in the downturn is important, but maintaining operating efficiency and risk controls is a regulatory necessit...
May 13, 2008
Munich Re - Re-insurance with built in stablizers
Analysis of: Munich Re Net Income Drops 20% | www.propertyandcasualtyinsurancenews.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
Most of Munich Re's securities investments are in European investment grade and government bonds. As inflation increases, re-invested funds will earn a higher rate of return. Their investments in equities, private equity and more complex fixed income securities are managed by a professional captive...
May 12, 2008
Why the German prpoerty market differs from US and UK counterparts
Analysis of: Dollar fall may trigger German property sell-off | www.reuters.com
Author: GLG Expert Contributor
The German property market has built in stablizers: lower leverage, more moderate price increases over a longer period, lower volatility and underbuilding in many cities. The willingness of German investors, both retail and institutional, to invest directly and indirectly in residential and...
Mark MariottiApril 29, 2008
If history teaches us anything... it teaches us NOT to predict the future.
Analysis of: Is now the time to aggressively buy semi stocks, i.e. is the bottom of the cycle near? | www.edn.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
But the future can be managed. We can look at the past cycles and then extrapolate forward potential probabilities. When markets contract, they can keep contracting to oblivion. But the probabilities of markets which are infrastructure tested, tried and true, tend to rebound. Demand growth and upgrades...
Mark MariottiApril 28, 2008
Rotation continues towards Internet commerce.
Analysis of: Internet Economy Looks Strong, Some Experts Say | www.cio.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
Many factors, such as; convenience,  better fraud protection, acceptance,  user interface improvements, peer reviews, dysfunctional brick and mortar stores, high transportation costs all contribute to the growth of Internet commerce. The list is very short which tracks products and services...
Mark MariottiApril 28, 2008
Trading is a transaction based model
Analysis of: TD Ameritrade 2Q profit rises 32 percent on trading activity | biz.yahoo.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
Whether markets are up or down - if a trading company such as TD Ameritrade (merged from many different trading companies and platforms), Scottrade, Schwab, Knight, etc runs their business efficiently, trade volume effect growth.Seems that towards the end (long trade exits - short...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Congress changed the rules
Analysis of: Freddie to Finance Jumbo Loans | online.wsj.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
Freddie Mac (GSE - Government-Sponsored Enterprises) wastes no time and begins to finance $10 billion to $15 billion in jumbo mortgages from big lenders. This follows the actions of other GSE's to add liquidity into the real estate market. I sincerely believe that this effort will help to flatten...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Steady Freddy... Fannie... Penny and the FHA
Analysis of: Mortgage applications up, FHA index climbs more | www.reuters.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
Current 'so called' mortgage metrics are not necessarially useful now or in the future. Ratios and numbers can always leave room for interpretaion and misdiagnosis.   Definately positive refi action is taking place for the strapped borrowers and principal committed investors; the GSE's should keep...
Mark MariottiApril 21, 2008
Firms like WaMu are pass-thru lenders. Ease investor anxiety NOW
Analysis of: WaMu Ditches the Wholesale Mortgage Biz | www.businessweek.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
a) Ease investor anxiety NOW   b) Secondary Mortgage Market Investors have been worried that recent data indicate a slowing economy, which would continue to cut into potential profit growth and actual principal at some of the nation's biggest mortgage companies, and portfolios.
Mark MariottiApril 17, 2008
Patterns and behaviors CHANGE - and then CHANGE again...
Analysis of: WaMu Ditches the Wholesale Mortgage Biz | www.businessweek.com
Author: Mark Mariotti, CEO, Future Management Holdings Inc
a) it does appear that the independent mortgage broker is going the way of the independent insurance agent and the independent fee based financial planner b) technlogy will be key in providing the independent mortgage broker, the acutal end-user (borrower) and actual owner-buyer-investor of...

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