Odeon Capital Group LLC Releases Primer on Countrywide Revolving Home Equity Loan Shelf Offering

Firm Expands Suite of Investment Analyst Research with Detailed Look at Undervalued Asset Class

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Odeon Capital Group LLC (“Odeon”), the independent fixed income broker dealer with investment banking and research services, today released a primer on the Countrywide Revolving Home Equity Loan Shelf offering (CWHEL). The report highlights the strengths and weaknesses of this particular shelf registration and how they affect the price, yield and weighted average life of the emerging asset class.

“We believe that CWHEL bonds’ double digit risk-adjusted yields provide an attractive risk/reward for investors”

A subject of tremendous attention from traditional as well as non-traditional ABS/MBS investors in recent years, the CWHEL shelf offers diverse performance metrics across the second lien sector, according to Ankur Makhija, a senior research analyst at Odeon.

“Non-traditional ABS/MBS investors can utilize second lien wrapped bonds such as the CWHEL shelf to invest in the housing market,” said Makhija. “Prudent investing in CWHEL bonds may provide investment opportunities that are simply not available in other ABS/MBS asset classes.”

To the traditional ABS/MBS investor, this shelf and the second-lien residential mortgage-backed securities asset class (comprising closed-end second-liens and home equity lines of credit as collateral) have increasingly drawn interest due to disappointing collateral performance and credit complications with the backstop function traditionally provided by most monolines. “We believe that CWHEL bonds’ double digit risk-adjusted yields provide an attractive risk/reward for investors,” said Makhija.

The full research document is available upon request at www.odeoncap.com/contact.

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