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To get a sense of how quickly the picture has changed for Sallie Mae, expectations on private loan originations for 2009 have dropped by 36% in a little over three months (which might also explain why there is an opening for an EVP of Sales and Marketing):
- July 22nd conference call: Projected 2009 originations at $5.0 billion
- September 16th conference call: Projected 2009 originations at $3.5 billion
- Based on today's earnings release, I would estimate 2009 originations to come in at around the $3.2 billion range.
The central question now is whether they feel the need to modify their loan terms, which currently require interest payments while in school and have an average rate of LIBOR + 10%, in hopes of driving additional volume or whether they are happy with these volumes. With the threat of FFELP disappearing, private loans will become a more important piece of their business model so I suspect they will go back and finetune the product to capture more volume. Their SmartOption loan product was designed from the outset to appeal to potential investors in student loan securities by having shorter terms, immediate cash flow, cosigners on 90% of the loans and stronger underwriting standards.
On the private loan delinquency and default, the company indicated charge-offs continued to rise: