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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac:
A Brief History of Government-Sponsored Enterprises
Freddie Mac established in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
; ; ; 1970 after the Emergency placed into conservatorship
Fannie Mae established in Home Finance Act to at a time when they
1938 to provide liquidity to provide further liquidity to guaranteed 57% of the $12
the primary and secondary the mortgage markets trillion USA mortgage market
mortgage markets
Fannie Mae became a publicly traded company in Freddie Mac became a
9/68, in part to reduce rising government debt publicly traded company in
levels from the Vietnam War by taking Fannie Mae 12/88 with an initial market
debt off USA Inc.’s balance sheet cap of $3 billion
Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac — What do they do?
They are insurance and investment companies. Both buy residential and
multifamily mortgages which conform to their underwriting standards from banks
and other originators. They either hold them in their portfolios or package them
into residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). These securities, which
carry Fannie and Freddie’s guarantee on them, are then sold to investors
(banks, insurance companies, bond funds, etc.).
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Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac:
What Went Wrong?
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Public Market Capitalizations, 1990 — 2010
7/05 — Fannie Mae and Freddie
ik aa Mac agreedtorestrictionson
growth of their retained
portfolios
9/08 — Fannie
cr Si Cis Ss Mae and Freddie
9/99 — Fannie Mae expanded mortgage | Mac placed into
availability to low-income borrowers conservatorship
under pressure from White House
1/93 - HUD began
promoting broader
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Market Cap ($B)
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1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010
—Freddie Mac —Fannie Mae
Note: HUD is Department of Housing and Urban Development. Source: FactSet.
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