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Institutions Store Up for QE2 Winter

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-The wind-down of quantitative easing will have its negative impact investment company activity when it kicks in this fall. In the meantime, SNL Financial sees the sector in a capital-raising “flurry.”

By John Salustri | Updated on July 12, 2013

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-SNL Financial is tracking a growing number of investment opportunities, feeding what the locally based firm refers to as a “flurry” of capital raising. As we reported last week, the expected fall unwinding of quantitative easing will impact commercial real estate in a way that is other than good. But in the meantime, the public markets are raising common and preferred equity to take advantage of those deals.

“A growing number of investment opportunities spurred commercial mortgage REITs’ capital raising, JMP Securities analyst Steve DeLaney tells SNL. “Those opportunities have come as volatility has rocked the agency MBS market amid talk by the Fed that it plans to wind down its purchases of agency MBS. Agency mortgage REIT stocks have been hit as a result, making equity issuance unattractive for many names.”

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