MVEA 2024 Luncheon
Join us for the 2024 Luncheon Keynote Address!
Speaker: Hamilton Fout, Ph.D. VP at Fannie Mae
Date: Friday, October 25th
Time: 12:15PM-1:15PM
Room: Brookside
Cost: $30 (MVEA Member) or $50 (NonMembers)
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Speaker Biography
Hamilton Fout is Fannie Mae’s Vice President of Economic & Strategic Research, reporting to the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist. Fout is responsible for providing the forecasts of loan volumes and profiles to various business units of Fannie Mae. Fout is an important source of information regarding regional housing risks, the transmission of macro developments through the mortgage market, stress testing, and issues related to mortgage risks and cash flows.
Prior to joining the Economic & Strategic Research group, Fout worked in the Underwriting and Pricing division of Fannie Mae focusing on issues related to credit risk. In this role, he had primary responsibility for tracking and reporting on regional risks within Fannie Mae’s credit portfolio, developing property-level and loan-level risk models, and monitoring and evaluating portfolio-level risks and opportunities for the company’s Single-Family book of business.
Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Fout worked as an assistant professor at Kansas State University, where he taught econometrics and undergraduate and graduate-level macro courses. He remains an adjunct member of the faculty. Fout’s recently published research focused on mortgage performance, severity, and collateral valuation. Fout received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina and a B.S. in economics and business from Florida State University.