GSE credit risk-sharing will witness a leveling off of Fannie Mae’s and Freddie Mac’s popular back-end credit risk transactions and an increase in first-loss and front-end risk sharing, according to the Urban Institute. Sales of Fannie’s Connecticut Avenue Securities and Freddie’s Structured Agency Credit Risk have been dominated by money managers and insurance companies, but a recent paper by the UI’s Laurie Goodman and Jim Parrott suggests that this investor base may face some constraints including liquidity issues. The report noted that investors are not able to sell significant positions in CAS or STACR deals without spreads widening significantly because market makers are only willing to hold modest positions given the capital requirements.