This ongoing series of podcasts focuses on the impact of the pandemic to the economy and the efficacy of various policy interventions. It features economists, policy makers, and industry experts analyzing real-time information, trends, and policy ideas as we weather this pandemic. 

Topics: Summit Blog, COVID-19, Podcast Series - COVID-19, Commercial Real Estate Market, evolutionary vs. revolutionary changes

Want a peek into our team's current data analysis work? Summit recently developed a new tool to help our mission-based clients visualize the areas heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. By graphically displaying the data, Summit’s mission-based clients can easily digest the severity and unexpected risks presented to their operations by COVID-19.

Topics: Summit Blog, data visualization, mission-oriented finance, data, COVID-19

I had a great conversation with Michael Bright, CEO at the Structured Finance Association, an advocacy group focused on strengthening the structured finance and securitization market.

Topics: Summit Blog, data analytics, Structured Finance, Securitization Market

This ongoing series of podcasts focuses on the impact of the pandemic to the economy and the efficacy of various policy interventions. It features economists, policy makers, and industry experts analyzing real-time information, trends, and policy ideas as we weather this pandemic. 

Topics: Summit Blog, COVID-19, Podcast Series - COVID-19, Virtual Home Appraisals

Summit's Dr. Albert Lee, Balint Peto, and I examined several economic scenarios based on Covid-19's impact on the economy, with special focus to its impact on the mortgage markets.

 

Many of Summit's clients are directly involved in lending and grant programs, and the disruption to the economy will be directly relevant to their existing and future portfolios. This opinion paper discusses different paths the recovery may take, explores detailed impacts on certain funding markets, and analyzes which outcome seems most likely.

Topics: mortgage finance, white paper, COVID-19

The implementation of Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL) in 2020 has been highly anticipated. The new accounting standard should make financial statements better reflect the underlying economics.

However, with a COVID-19 induced recession, there have been talks of delaying its enactment.

In this white paper, Summit Consulting summarizes the accounting elections and provides insights into how to manage accounting volatility due to an uncertain economic outlook.

Topics: white paper, COVID-19, CECL

I recently sat down with Joe Monaghan, CEO of Aon’s Public Sector Partnership, and Bridget Gainer, COO, and discussed risk transfer for the second of a three-part podcast series. (Check out part 1 here.)

Topics: Summit Blog, Complexity Simplified, risk transfer, COVID-19

As expected, renters struggled to pay their April 1st rent. According to the report published by the National Multifamily Housing Council, approximately 31% of multifamily renters did not make their April 1st payment. This figure is up 12 percentage points from March 2020 and 13 percentage points from April 2019.

Topics: Summit Blog, data analytics, predictive analytics, COVID-19, Multifamily Housing

This ongoing series of podcasts focuses on the impact of the pandemic to the economy and the efficacy of various policy interventions. It features economists, policy makers, and industry experts analyzing real-time information, trends, and policy ideas as we weather this pandemic. 

Topics: Summit Blog, Complexity Simplified, COVID-19, Podcast Series - COVID-19, Commercial Real Estate Market, Asset Class

Last week, I spent some time with Summit’s in-house Agile coach, Derek Hills. Derek’s deep experience in Agile and Scrum are helping Summit with stakeholder engagement, transparency, and predictable delivery for some of our most challenging project management engagements.

Topics: Summit Blog, Scrum, Agile, Predictable Delivery, Project Management