Financial leverage is also one of the main reasons do disappear for Lehman Brothers. Financial leverage is the company used the loan to fund the growth of assets, calculated by the ratio: total assets/equity. It measure the Bank's level of risk in meeting the rising prices of property or meet a debt. In the commercial bank rate be control at levels 12 times. However this rate at Lehman Brothers is very high about 20 times. Since 1975, the investment banks were not for financial leverage too 15 times. But since 2004, the U.s. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has repealed this regulation with 5 big Wall Street including Lehman Brothers. As of early 2008, financial leverage of this organization is very high about 80 times. Securitization of real estate is a property type to bring big profits for Wall Street members do the interest rates of securities are usually a lot higher when borrowers on the currency market. Therefore, financial institutions, especially banks, investment banks often borrow on the money market to buy real estate and securities enjoy the difference in interest rates. To be the organisation to the mortgage by the property, usually real estate securities again.Do not control the amount of money being lent, when the real estate market is stabilizing financial institutions constantly spin on the process to create a gigantic profits. At the same time, the process of "raising the lever" makes this financial leverage advanced. However, when the real estate market has a problem then the discount real estate securities investors started to worry for the amount borrowers because of reduced collateral value. They often require financial institutions to pay back the money or increase collateral. Due to the tight money market, financial institutions are forced to sell the real estate securities at low prices to return money to investors, causing a large losses. With a high leverage rate on average 30% of the property value, just falling 3.3%, then the entire property of this financial institutions evaporated, leading to bankruptcy or were acquired. So factors that bring back the glory to Lehman Brothers (financial leverage) are also factors in lives of this bank
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