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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory

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To: russwinter who wrote (999)9/24/2003 1:17:59 PM
From: ild  Read Replies (1) of 110194
 
I don't understand how they get AAA for auto loans (unless
Ford/GM promise to make whole on all losses).
Also what I don't like that they price in swaps. As I
understand this it's leveraged on low short term rates. Am
I wrong?

Bear Stearns Securitizes $3B In Auto Loans From Big 3

By DAVID FELDHEIM

Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
NEW YORK -- Bear Stearns plans to sell another large
securitization of retail auto receivables from its Whole
Auto Loan Trust (WALT), series 2003-1.

The investment bank said the offering will total $2.956
billion and includes equal amounts of auto loans it
purchased from Ford Motor Credit, the financing arm of Ford
Motor Co. (F), General Motors Acceptance Corp., the
financing company for General Motors Corp. (GM) and
DaimlerChrysler North America Holding, the U.S. arm of
DaimlerChrysler AG (DCX).

Market sources said they believe that Bear Stearns has
accumulated these loans over the past year, with the Ford
portion likely left over from the $3 billion in whole loans
the auto maker sold to Bear Stearns last November.

Bear Stearns completed its first whole loan securitization
on Dec. 4, 2002, when its sold $3 billion of notes backed
by loans purchased from Ford and DaimlerChrysler.

Dealers said the deal should be attractive because it
offers well-diversified collateral, but one trader said it
could be a little harder to place because the entire issue
is fixed rate.

Details of the new five-year offering are as follows:

Class Amount AvgLife Rating Guidance

A1 $758 mln 0.26 yr P1/A1+/F1+ 3moLibor minus 4bp area

A2 854 mln 1.00 yr Aaa/AAA/AAA SynthLibor + 8bp area

A3 595 mln 2.00 yr Aaa/AAA/AAA 2 yr Swap + 10bp area

A4 462 mln 2.98 yr Aaa/AAA/AAA 3 yr Swap + 8bp area

B 69 mln 1.84 yr A1/A/A+ 2 yr Swap + 40bp area

C 27 mln 1.77 yr Baa1/BBB/BBB+ 2 yr Swap + 150bp area

D 69 mln 1.44 yr Ba3/BB-/BB private placement

Bear Stearns is lead manager for the placement, with Banc
One Securities and J.P. Morgan Securities as co-managers.
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