GAO Study: Ginnie Mae Risk Management And Cost Modeling Need Further Attention
March 30, 2012
Ginnie Mae has seen a huge increase in business volume and appears to have adequate reserves, but the agency is still hamstrung by the federal budget process and has work to do to improve its risk management, according to a new Government Accounting Office report. With $1.186 trillion in single-family MBS outstanding and $301.7 billion in new issuance just last year, Ginnie is nearly as big as Freddie Mac minus the retained portfolio. But the agency has a relatively small staff of full-time employees and has to get around the federal budget process by using business revenues to hire...