Financial Services >> Analyst Interviews >> September 20, 2013

Credit and IO Securities Emerge as Best mREIT Options

Daniel Furtado is an Equity Analyst at Jefferies & Company, Inc., covering the specialty finance industry. He has more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry, spread across equity research and commercial bank lending. Mr. Furtado joined Jefferies & Company, Inc., in April 2007. Prior to that, he worked on the specialty finance research team at FBR Capital Markets & Co. as a Senior Research Associate. He received a B.S. and a B.A. from the University of Arizona in finance and East Asian studies, respectively. Mr. Furtado holds an MBA from Georgetown University.  Profile
TWST: I know you cover a variety of nonbank lending institutions, including the mortgage REITs, which we'll be focusing on today. In general, how have the mortgage REIT stocks been performing this