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Dec 5 2007
1:00PM
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Subprime Prescience at MetLife
Lavonne Kuykendall quotes Steven Kandarian, MetLife's CIO:
Mr. Kandarian said MetLife identified the risk from subprime loans early and stopped buying subprime mortgage-backed securities rated single-A and below in late 2004.
Note that MetLife's fund managers aren't the kind of people who get huge bonuses for outperforming by a few basis points in a quarter, or who get fired if they don't. They're real-money, long-term investors who buy and hold securities they've looked closely at and believe in. Here endeth the lesson.
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