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Deer Park Road targets legacy non-agency RMBS; Warns of dangerous REPO markets

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Deer Park Road Management's STS Master Fund was down 1.51% net for December, bringing its full-year return to -7.62% for 2019. The fund lost 95 basis points in realized losses on positions sold during December and generated 0.93% of net asset value in cash flow.

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Credit markets shifting

In their December letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, the Deer Park Road team said the credit markets overall have been shifting as the spread across sectors continued to tighten through December. Non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities dud well throughout the year, but they underperformed corporate bonds, which have recorded "unprecedented returns," they said....

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.