One of my favorite investment bloggers, Clark Street Value, recently wrote about mortgage real estate investment trust (mREIT) Ladder Capital (LADR). Ladder mainly invests in commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS), or pools of mortgage loans to businesses.
The post described how Ladder is well positioned to survive the current downturn due to its high quality assets and use of unsecured debt to fund those assets. It provided much information about both topics; I encourage interested readers to read it.
As an investor, though, I am not just interested in how well a