BREAKOUT SESSION: Evaluating Investments in Mortgage Servicing Rights
Rates and regulatory and economic trends all factor into the MSR valuations market conditions and performance. Learn how MSR investors, valuation and hedge experts manage these risks in the current market conditions. Gain historical insight on the changes in MSR values from the pandemic’s low mortgage rate environment, through the rapid rate increases brought on by hedging off inflation, to today’s outlook for MSR values. Sponsored by CoreLogic.
Speakers
Moderator
Gagan is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with 20+ years of experience in financial services and technology. He enjoys solving challenging customer problems in the financial sector and has a proven track record of bringing startup concepts to life and scaling for success, including successfully exiting and selling a global financial services and technology outsourcing company. Since leading an investment group to acquire BSI from a bank in 2006, he has transformed the company from a small loan servicer into a fast growing and leading nationwide mortgage fintech, fostering 70X growth since the acquisition. BSI was named on the Inc. Magazines’ Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for two years and on The Dallas 100 list of fastest growing companies in North Texas for four consecutive years. Gagan was the finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Southwest Region in 2017. He is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Gagan has an MBA from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and a B Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Speakers
Michelle Richardson is the SVP and Chief Financial Officer at Plaza Home Mortgage, Inc., a privately owned, full-service national correspondent and wholesale lender. An industry veteran with more than 20 years of financial and operational experience, Ms. Richardson joined Plaza in 2019. Prior to Plaza, she was Vice President of Treasury at loanDepot and earlier held finance positions with Icon Residential, T-Force, and IMPAC Mortgage. In her current role, she oversees Accounting, Financial Analysis, Treasury, Payroll, Facilities and Administration and has extensive experience in strategic planning, revenue maximization, cost efficiency, timely and accurate financial reporting and the development of effective systems and controls. Ms. Richardson has her Masters in Accounting and is a Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) as well as a Certified Treasury Professional CTP).
With extensive experience in mortgage banking and mortgage servicing, Seth leads the Mortgage Banking Consulting Services practice at Richey May. A sought-after speaker, he often speaks on liquidity and the overall challenges in the mortgage industry. Seth joined Richey May from the STRATMOR Group where he was a principal. Prior to joining STRATMOR, he was EVP of Trading and Analytics at Phoenix Capital. Seth also served as SVP, Servicing Asset Manager at SunTrust Mortgage for more than 10 years, where he developed and led their servicing rights valuation team. His career also includes accounting, analytics and auditing roles at Bank of America, KPMG LLP and United Financial Inc. Seth holds the designation of Certified Mortgage Banker (CMB) from the MBA.
Austin Tilghman is the founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of UCM, one of the leading MSR Hedge Advisory firms. In that role, he is responsible for overall management as well as marketing and trading supervision. Mr. Tilghman is a thirty-five year veteran of the mortgage-backed securities and interest rate derivatives markets. While at J.P. Morgan, Austin ran the mortgage banking desk and headed a design team to offer the first MSR specific products to mortgage bankers. Austin is a frequent panelist at national and state conferences.
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