Across the 50 banks we analyzed, $2.74 trillion is categorized as Level 1, 2, and 3 assets. Level 2 assets equal $1.48 trillion of the total, or 53.9%. Level 3 assets total $259 billion, or 9.4% of the total. The methodologies banks use to value these sizable Level 2 and 3 asset bases are typically opaque, leaving investors highly vulnerable to the judgments and representations of management. These 50 banks also hold $4.76 trillion in loans, net of $130.8 billion in allowances for loan losses (2.7% of net loans). Despite the “Great Recession”, out of our group of 50 banks, allowances as a percentage of loans range from a paltry 0.2% to 4.7%.
Rappel: les actifs de niveau 2 et 3 sont ceux qui sont "marked to model", ou plus exactement "marked to myth". Souvenons nous de l'énorme différence que peut faire le choix entre un taux d'actualisation de 2 ou de 3% dans un modèle DCF, et concluons que nous sommes désormais du côté de la grande illusion.
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