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Home » Urban Institute Echoes Actuarial Report’s Concerns about HECM Volatility and Its Impact on Health of FHA’s MMIF
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Urban Institute Echoes Actuarial Report’s Concerns about HECM Volatility and Its Impact on Health of FHA’s MMIF

December 3, 2015
Combining the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage program and the traditional forward mortgage program in assessing the soundness of the FHA Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund could produce inaccurate results and ill-advised policy changes, warned the Urban Institute. Analysts at the institute said the FHA’s basis for assessing the MMI Fund’s solvency creates a distorted picture of the value of the fund and that the agency should separately assess its forward and reverse mortgage businesses to get an accurate picture of their performance and impact on the fund. The FY 2015 actuarial report drew...
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