From India to Milledgeville to $20 Billion in Assets: Sreeni Prabhu on the ATLalts Podcast
Angel Oak Co-Founder and Group CIO Sreeni Prabhu joined the ATLalts podcast for a wide-ranging discussion about Angel Oak’s origin story and potential investment opportunities in structured credit.
HELOC: Home equity line of credit.
Alpha: Measures the difference between a fund’s actual returns and its expected performance, given its level of risk (as measured by beta). A positive alpha figure indicates the fund has performed better than its beta would predict. In contrast, a negative alpha indicates a fund has underperformed, given the expectations established by the fund’s beta.
Asset-Backed Securities (ABS): Securities created by buying and bundling loans –such as residential mortgage loans, commercial loans or student loans –and creating securities backed by those assets, which are then sold to investors.
Collateralized Loan Obligation (CLO): A single security backed by a pool of debt.
Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS): A type of asset-backed security which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages.
Non-Qualified Mortgage (Non-QM): A loan that does not meet the standards of a qualified mortgage and uses non-traditional methods of income verification to help a borrower get approved for a home loan.
Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS): Fixed income securities with cash flows that are collateralized by residential mortgages.
Structured Credit: A type of financial product created by pooling various investments backed by assets into new securities with different risk profiles, often divided into tranches.
As of 9/30/24, Angel Oak Capital had $18.7B billion in assets under management (AUM) through a combination of mutual funds, ETFs, private funds and separately managed accounts. AUM represents the sum of assets managed or serviced, and committed but uncalled capital. Excludes assets invested in affiliated Funds.
As of 6/25/24, Angel Oak Capital’s ETF platform surpassed $1 billion in assets under management.
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