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| From "The Birmingham Business Journal" - 6/6/2014 |
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| Fire Power ! |
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| Match Play! |
afternoon; the "playing with matches", political recklessness of "some boys and girls" in Virginia had lit a bonfire under APCO's home office, threatening to torch the reputation of the largest credit union in Birmingham. At 2:55 pm APCO got blasted by the Birmingham Business Journal without warning nor cause. What a dangerous surprise, what a great way to start a weekend!!For those of you unfamiliar with APCO, the credit union is one of the best, most conservatively managed CUs in the Country. Here are a few of its "key ratios" as of March 31, 2014:
Assets: $ 2.4 Billion
Well-Capitalized: 9.87%
Chargeoffs: .47%
ROA: .77%
Growth: 7.62%
Net Op. Expense: .39%**
(** and no that's not a typo!!!
- Peer Avg. is 2.43% !)
... and those numbers are not flukes or "one-offs", APCO Employees CU has always been this good!!
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| Liar Fire... ! |
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| "Send in the Clowns..." |
But maybe Mr. Mann , the APCO Board, and all the 70,000 APCO members in Alabama "haven't gotten the message" yet. "They" (APCO Employees) are at risk....
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| Sending a message... ! |
But to all the folks associated with the highly capitalized, remarkably well-managed, and wildly safe and sound APCO Employees Credit Union, here's a little "message" and some Southern Comfort from "down home"....
"Hold On".... Shake it off !!
(and... "Bless my heart and bless yours, too!")
(and... "Bless my heart and bless yours, too!")
5 comments:
It does seem that APCO has a greater duration on investments and potential extension risk if rates go up.
I can not believe that NCUA and the credit union has not looked at the effects of a rate shock on the credit union. Also, if NCUA had concerns about the ability of the credit union to hold the investments to maturity they would force a reclassification to available for sale.
With the very low Operating Expense ratio, the ability to absorb the lower yielding return on investments would be enhanced.
We know credit union CEO's listen to Matz, and they have determined that she is just in over her head on this matter.
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NCUA's egregious and continuing "blind spot" is that they fail to understand that liquidity is 1000 times more important than "duration", or NEV, or SIRRT ratios...
It wasn't duration which brought down Lehman nor the corporates, nor the money market funds, nor AIG...
APCO has almost perfect liquidity in its investment assets... something that does not appear in NCUA silliness such as a SIRRT ratio.... bring in the clowns!
Absolutely agree with Jim about the liquidity comments. Only having access to the 5300 lead to the observation that this credit union had an unusual maturity schedule for their investments. Suspect that Ms. Matz was faced with the painful challenge of thinking before expressing a decision. Guess she decided on the latter.
When you compare APCO to SECU investments you get two completely different views of investment in credit union land. SECU is very short term in Treasuries and APCO seems to be laddered in Federal agencies with 1/3 being rather long in maturity. Neither is necessarily right or wrong for their individual circumstances.
Ms. Matz has no statutory authority to discuss publicly the circumstances of individual credit unions. Any concerns that she had about the investment program of APCO should have been handled through the regulatory process. Suspect that there is no identified investment problem with investments at APCO that NCUA can not prove and therefore what they can not achieve through proper regulatory channels, they attempt to achieve by misguided and potentially illegal public pronouncements.
Seems that NCUA has problems with public announcements of the Camel Code, but no problem with discussion credit union specifics. Talk about bring in the clowns!
I hope your commenter was joking. Because very few CEO's are listening or believing the garbage that is coming our of Matz's mouth and her office. Does she really believe we are so stupid to just go along because she says what she says and she is the Chairman. News flash everyone in the industry is talking about how incompetent and destructive you are for the industry. Thanks for uniting the industry to fight to preserve it by any means possible against you and your ego driven staffs.
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