Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our liquidity reflects our ability to meet our current obligations (including our operating expenses and, when applicable, the retirement of, and margin calls relating to, our debt, and margin calls relating to hedges on our commitments to purchase or originate mortgage loans and on our MSR investments), fund new originations and purchases, and make investments as we identify them. We expect our primary sources of liquidity to be through cash flows from business activities, proceeds from bank borrowings and proceeds from and issuance of equity or debt offerings. We believe that our liquidity is sufficient to meet our current liquidity needs.
Our current borrowing strategy is to finance our assets where we believe such borrowing is prudent, appropriate and available. Our primary borrowing activities are in the form of sales of assets under agreements to repurchase, sales of mortgage loan participation purchase and sale certificates, notes payable secured by mortgage servicing rights and unsecured senior notes. A significant amount of our borrowings have short-term maturities and provide for advances with terms ranging from 30 days to 364 days. Because a significant portion of our current debt facilities consist of short-term debt, we expect to renew these facilities in advance of maturity in order to ensure our ongoing liquidity and access to capital or otherwise allow ourselves sufficient time to replace any necessary financing.
Secured debt facilities for MSRs and servicing advances take various forms. Fannie Mae MSRs, Ginnie Mae MSRs and servicing advances are pledged to special purpose entities, each of which may issue variable funding notes (“VFNs”) and term notes and term loans that are secured by such Ginnie Mae or Fannie Mae assets. Term notes are issued to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of Securities Act and term loans are syndicated to banking entities, while the VFNs are sold to bank partners under agreements to repurchase. Freddie Mac MSR’s are pledged to a single lender under a bi-lateral loan and security agreement.
On February 29, 2024, the Company through its indirect subsidiary, PNMAC GMSR ISSUER TRUST (the “Issuer Trust”), issued an aggregate principal amount of $425 million in secured term notes (the “2024-GT1 Notes”) to qualified institutional buyers under Rule 144A of the Securities Act. The 2024-GT1 Notes will mature on March 26, 2029 or, if extended, either March 25, 2030 or March, 25, 2031. The 2024-GT1 Notes rank pari passu with other secured term notes issued by the Issuer Trust and are secured by certain participation certificates relating to Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights and excess servicing spread relating to such mortgage servicing rights that are financed by PLS.
On May 23, 2024, the Company, together with its subsidiaries, issued $650 million in 7.125% unsecured senior notes due in 2030 in a private placement to “qualified institutional buyers” under Rule 144A of the Securities Act.
On July 25, 2024, the Company, the Issuer Trust and PLS entered into two VFN repurchase agreements, as part of the structured finance transaction that PLS uses to finance Ginnie Mae mortgage servicing rights and related excess servicing spread and servicing advance receivables. The Series 2024-MSRVF1 Master Repurchase Agreement by and between PLS, as seller, and Mizuho Bank, Ltd. (“Mizuho”), as administrative agent and as a buyer, is related to the excess servicing spread. The Series 2020-SPIADVF1 Master Repurchase Agreement by and between PLS, as seller, and Mizuho, as administrative agent and buyer, is related to the servicing advance receivables. The maximum amount outstanding under both repurchase agreements is $350 million and each agreement is set to expire on July 25, 2026.
Our repurchase agreements represent the sales of assets together with agreements for us to buy back the respective assets at a later date. The table below presents the average, maximum daily and ending balances:
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| | Quarter ended September 30, | | Nine months ended September 30, | |
| | 2024 | | 2023 | | 2024 | | 2023 | |
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Average balance | | $ | 5,638,124 | | $ | 3,208,434 | | $ | 4,982,988 | | $ | 3,800,502 | |
Maximum daily balance | | $ | 6,608,245 | | $ | 4,418,359 | | $ | 7,122,796 | | $ | 6,358,007 | |
Balance at period end | | | | | | | | $ | 6,609,703 | | $ | 4,418,297 | |
The differences between the average and maximum daily balances on our repurchase agreements reflect both the effect of increasing loan inventory levels during the quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2024 and the