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How to Pick Up Alpha in a Mortgage Spread
The repo market is special in many ways. It fails to deliver that you buy something and they don't give it to you. Yeah, it's literally death. And maybe what is sort of a worst situation for a bank because they don't want to get a tap on the shoulder from a regulator. Maybe that's an opportunity for a asset manager like a PIMCO or something else. In general, how much of the opportunity to pick up alpha or extra gains for an asset manager comes from essentially the constraints that are imposed on other types of potential holders? We're talking about mortgages and mortgage spreads.