RMRM News and Press, RMR Mortgage Trust From 06/21/21

CAI International and Mitsubishi HC Capital join forces. At Home Group receives an improved offer but its largest shareholder is not happy with the higher offer. Multiple active deals receive required regulatory and shareholder approvals. For further details see: Merger ...

Certainly a case can be made that some of the recent price movement has been related to declining real long term yields. Rent/price yields are not uniform across cities. They decrease systematically where rents are high. In the mid-20th century, housing yields remained stable beca...

Much of last week’s economic focus was on the inflation report. Inflation was indeed pretty hot year over year, but that wasn’t unexpected. With CPI printing at 5% year over year, bond yields fell. But these are small moves, and the trend for rates is still up for now. ...

Risk-adjusted performance for the Global Market Index (GMI) continued to tick higher in May. GMI’s Sharpe ratio — a measure of risk-adjusted return – rose to 0.82 on a trailing 10-year basis through last month. That’s close to a pandemic high, but still...

The Global Market Index’s (GMI) expected risk premium held steady at 5.9% annualized in May, matching the previous month’s estimate. The framework for estimating equilibrium returns was initially outlined in a 1974 paper by Professor Bill Sharpe. Keep in mind, too, t...

The major asset classes delivered across-the-board gains for a second month in a row in May. Everything apart from cash was up last month, led by a sizzling rally in foreign inflation-linked government bonds. The FTSE Russell World Inflation Index ex-US surged 4.0% last month, the...

RMR Mortgage Trust (Nasdaq:RMRM) today announced the results of its 2021 Annual Meeting of Shareholders which was held today. Adam D. Portnoy was re-elected as a Managing Trustee. The final tabulation of the percentage of shareholders’ votes cast for this Trustee is as fo...

Existing home sales for April confirmed what we have already seen with new home sales: the market peaked at the turn of the year. Sales declined 2.7%, seasonally adjusted, compared with March, to 5.85 million units annualized. That is the lowest number since last July’s 5.90 mi...

Canadian National wins the bid for Kansas City but with a regulatory twist. Movie rental company Redbox decides to take the SPAC route to go public. Consolidation in the regional banking space continues with Glacier Bancorp acquiring Altabancorp. For further details see: ...

I am now arguing that we are in the early stages of a monetary policy mistake that the Fed is committing. I first cover the state of fiscal policy, which has deteriorated like never before. Spending is essentially out of control and off the charts. Inflation is fully expected to a...