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Fed Official Who Warned on Real Estate Was Active REIT Trader

Published 09/08/2021, 10:54 PM
Updated 09/08/2021, 10:54 PM
© Bloomberg. Eric Rosengren, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, speaks during a Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The event was entitled Should the Fed Stick with the 2 Percent Inflation Target or Rethink It.

© Bloomberg. Eric Rosengren, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, speaks during a Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The event was entitled Should the Fed Stick with the 2 Percent Inflation Target or Rethink It.

(Bloomberg) -- One of the Federal Reserve’s largest internal critics of the risks in U.S. real estate was an active investor in the sector last year, financial disclosures show.

Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren listed stakes in four separate real estate investment trusts and disclosed multiple purchases and sales in those and other securities, the documents show.

Boston Fed spokeswoman Lucy Warsh confirmed that Rosengren’s trades were not conducted via a blind trust but “his investment decisions are consistent with the system’s strong ethics rules and  time frames.”

Separate filings for Dallas Fed chief Robert Kaplan, a former Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). executive, showed multiple $1 million-plus transactions last year as the U.S economy was convulsed by Covid-19. He also disclosed a $1 million-plus stake in the Kansas City Royals baseball team.

The U.S. central bank slashed interest rates to zero in March as the pandemic spread and began buying hundreds of billions of dollars-worth of Treasuries and mortgage-backed securities to calm financial markets.

Rosengren, who has discussed his concerns in commercial real estate in public speeches, has also advocated for the Fed to consider scaling back its MBS purchases faster than Treasuries to avoid overheating the housing market.

The Wall Street Journal first reported Kaplan’s trading activity, which included transactions of over $1 million in more than a dozen companies including Delta Airlines (NYSE:DAL) Inc., Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc.’s Google and Verizon Communications Inc (NYSE:VZ). 

“All transactions were reviewed by the Dallas Fed’s general counsel, who confirmed the transactions were in compliance with the bank’s code of conduct. No trades were made during the Federal Reserve’s blackout period, during which trading activity is prohibited,” the Dallas Fed said in a statement.

All 12 regional fed have provided 2020 financial disclosures for their presidents. Most showed nothing unusual, with little or no trading reported last year. 

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© Bloomberg. Eric Rosengren, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, speaks during a Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy event at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Jan. 8, 2018. The event was entitled Should the Fed Stick with the 2 Percent Inflation Target or Rethink It.

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