Resource Capital Corporation Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

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2008-05-27 15:46:16.0

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Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

(Operator Instructions) And your first question comes from the line of Don Fandetti of CITI. One moment, please proceed.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

Hi, Jonathan, what is the --

Jonathan Cohen

Hi, Don.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

How are you doing? I wanted to get your thoughts on credit I guess in the commercial real estate portfolio over the next few quarters. Do you sort of think in your mind there's risk of one or two more sort of non-performing events?

Jonathan Cohen

No, I'm sorry, Don. As far as -- we feel pretty good about the commercial real estate portfolio. A lot of those are longer-term projects with pretty substantial managers and sponsors with decent or great reserves, debt service reserves and CapEx reserves and projects that are going on. And we don't foresee any.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

Okay. And just to clarify, in your -- it looks like the cash position overall appears to be kind of tight. And I just wonder if some of these -- if you have more non-performing loans, does that -- how do you deal with those that might be on repo? Does that create a need --

Jonathan Cohen

We only have $6.7 million on our recourse repo, which is secured by $25 million.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

But I thought you had $64 million of the three-year repo.

Jonathan Cohen

That's on our term facility.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

Okay. And so, is there no risk there of any type -- if a loan in that facility becomes non-performing or defaults, what happens?

Jonathan Cohen

It's a non-recourse facility to us.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

Okay. So there's no sort of funding demand risk on that.

Jonathan Cohen

No.

Don Fandetti - Citigroup

Okay. And I think that's all I had. Thank you.

Jonathan Cohen

Thanks, Don.

Operator

And your next question comes from the line of Jason Deleeuw of Piper Jaffray. Please proceed.

Jason Deleeuw - Piper Jaffray

Good morning.

Jonathan Cohen

Good morning.

Jason Deleeuw - Piper Jaffray

Just on the net interest income, I know you had LIBOR floors on some of the loans. And should we be expecting an improvement in net interest income if all -- holding everything else equal, just given with how funding costs have trended downward and floors in the loans?

Jonathan Cohen

Yes, I think generally we're satisfied that that's improving things. But obviously, LIBOR on the entire portfolio going down was not a good thing because everything is LIBOR funded.

 

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