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26. Concentrations of Risk
The Company’s activities are subject to significant risks and uncertainties, including the ability of management to adequately develop its service lines, acquire adequate customer and revenue bases, and overall market demand for its services. In addition, the Company engages in various trading and brokerage activities in which counterparties primarily include broker-dealers, banks, and other financial institutions. In the event counterparties do not fulfill their obligations, the Company may be exposed to risk. The risk of default depends on the creditworthiness of the counterparty or issuer of the instrument. It is the Company’s policy to review, as necessary, the credit standing of each counterparty.
Financial instruments, which potentially subject the Company to credit risk, primarily consist of cash and cash equivalents, loans held for investment, and retained bonds.
The Company invests its excess cash balances that may exceed federal insured limits with creditworthy financial institutions, primarily in accounts that are exposed to minimal interest rate and credit risk. The Company maintains multiple banking relationships with both national and regional banks and actively monitors the financial stability of such institutions to ensure they have sufficient capital to meet the Company’s funding needs and can withstand a sudden liquidity stress event or an unexpected significant amount of withdrawal requests submitted at the same time by multiple customers.
Credit risk is reduced by the Company’s underwriting standards, monitoring pledged collateral, and other in-house monitoring procedures performed by management. The Company’s credit exposure for amounts due from investors is minimized since its policy is to sell mortgages only to highly reputable and financially sound financial institutions.
FAR originates, purchases, sells, securitizes, and services HECM. FAR is subject to approval of, and is heavily regulated by, federal and state regulatory agencies as a mortgage lender, Ginnie Mae issuer, broker, and servicer.
The secondary market for the FHA-insured HECM loans is not assured; to the extent the program requires Congressional appropriations in future years, which are not forthcoming, the program could be jeopardized; and/or, consumer demand could be reduced if FHA actions result in a reduction of initial principal limit available to borrowers.
FAR also originates non-agency reverse mortgages. Non-agency reverse mortgage loans are not insured by the FHA.
FAR depends on its ability to securitize reverse mortgages, subsequent borrower draws, mortgage insurance premiums, service fees, and other advances, and would be adversely affected if the ability to access the secondary market were to be limited.
Reverse mortgage loans are sold or financed through one of the following methods: (i) sales or financing securitizations to or pursuant to programs sponsored by Ginnie Mae or (ii) sales or financing securitizations issued to private investors. The Company sold to or securitized with Ginnie Mae $1.0 billion and $1.1 billion of HECM for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The Company sold to or securitized with private investors $1.1 billion of reverse mortgage loans for each of the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
For the year ended December 31, 2024, the reverse mortgage loan sales or financing securitizations issued to private investors consisted of 90.7% non-agency reverse mortgage loans and 9.3% HECM buyouts. For the year ended December 31, 2023, the reverse mortgage loan sales or financing securitizations issued to private investors consisted of 87.3% non-agency reverse mortgage loans and 12.7% HECM buyouts.
Concentrations of credit risk associated with reverse mortgage loans are limited due to the large number of customers and their dispersion across many geographic areas. The table below provides the percentage of all reverse loans in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition by the location in which the home securing the loan is located, and is based on remaining UPB. “Other” consists of loans in states in which concentration individually represents less than 5% of total remaining UPB.
A significant portion of the Company’s non-agency reverse mortgages are originated within the state of California. The Company’s non-agency reverse mortgage loan concentration, based on remaining UPB, is presented in the following table. “Other” consists of loans in states in which concentration individually represents less than 5% of total remaining UPB.
The following table provides the percentage of reverse mortgage loans in the Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition that are insured by the FHA compared to non-agency reverse mortgages.
Loans previously repurchased out of a HMBS that were subsequently securitized contain limited concentrations of credit risk due to the dispersion across many geographic areas. The table below provides the percentage of securitized HECM buyouts in the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition by the location in which the home securing the loan is located, and is based on remaining UPB. “Other” consists of loans in states in which concentration individually represents less than 5% of total remaining UPB.
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