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For three weeks, it struggled to meet margin calls on its highly leveraged portfolio of mortgages and mortgage securities, but said nothing to its public shareholders.
It had a huge, highly leveraged portfolio, and other traders appeared to be circling like vultures, trying to profit from Long-Term's distress.
| Shares in publicly listed private equity firms are getting battered amid fears that another downturn will make their leveraged portfolio companies vulnerable and hamper the firms' ability to cash out of their investments.
I calculate that over the period of 18-plus years, this leveraged portfolio would have returned 23percentt, annualized -- or more than 5 percentage points a year more than Mr. Frank's.
But most of these gains, Mr Swensen points out, came from heavy borrowing by buy-out firms seeking to multiply their private-equity bet.If the same amount of debt had been used to multiply the investments in the S&P, the leveraged portfolio of public equities would have generated an 86% return, beating the buy-outs by nearly 40 percentage points a year or nearly 50 points after fees.
The discount rate is higher for a steeply leveraged portfolio.
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The leverage ratio is calculated by dividing assets by equity, and is a critical variable in leveraged portfolios.
Highly leveraged portfolios are very volatile, and at low levels of equity, portfolios can gain or lose 5% to 10% of their value every single day.
Those funds are going to be squeezed as short rates rise: Dividends that investors reap from these leveraged portfolios will be pared because of ever-costlier fund borrowing.
An obvious extension of this approach is to apply leverage to generate excess returns to the non-leveraged portfolio.
For each analyst, StarMine builds a non-leveraged portfolio based on his or her recommendations.
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