Michael Nierenberg
Analyst
Sure. So on the – let’s go through each sector real quick. On the legacy non-agency securities market, which continues to pay down, we see levered returns there at something around 5% to 6% depending upon the type of asset class. And that’s on the legacy side. And some of the new deals you may see a tad higher, but in general, you’re talking about again 5% to 6%. The loan business on re-performing loans and our call strategies, we believe we continue to see in the double-digits around that part of our business. Our results have been very good. I do think there is going to be a scarcity of assets for sale as banks and our friends in DC continue to clean up their balance sheets. So if you look like last year, for example, I think supply was down probably something between 30% and 40% from the prior year overall in the re-performing and non-performing loan business, so that cause prices to go up. On a relative basis, if you look at the mortgage market and compare it to IT and high yields, we are – and I think you’ve seen some research out there – the mortgage market itself I think on a relative value basis is cheap to those sectors, so I think we’ll continue to see better performance. There is a lot of capital chasing the same assets. So, risk-adjusted returns are going to continue to tighten as long as we have a normalized kind of geopolitical world and economy. On the MSR front, we’ve been pretty active. I mean, obviously, we did the Ditech deal. Our MSR team has been active working with different third-party originators to acquire MSRs at what we think levered returns are kind of mid-teens at this point. The discipline around hedging and protecting book value there is something that is extremely important. But overall, returns have been terrific in that sector. So I think as we go forward, our continued growth will be around our MSR business, our loan business, our call business, and growing our operating businesses. All of these continue to be pretty much the same mission that we had since we began the company in 2013. So really haven’t deviated from there. On the opportunistic side, if things come our way, we look at a lot of deals, we look at a lot of different companies, we’ll continue to deploy capital as we see fit. But overall, I think we’re happy working on our call strategy, investing in MSRs, investing in loans, where we think the returns are good, probably less than the bond side and then see where we go from there.