Goal Financial Launches New Business Strategy to Acquire FFELP Student Loans

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Goal Financial ("Goal") announced today that three of its existing securitization trusts have successfully completed the purchase of $612,585 in federal government guaranteed student loans to mark the beginning of a new strategy focused on the acquisition of FFELP student loans. The student loans were purchased by Student Loan Consolidation Center Student Loan Trust I ("SLCC"), Education Loan Asset-Backed Trust I ("ELAB"), and Higher Education Funding I ("HEF") in the amounts of $347,026, $134,969, and $130,590, respectively.  

Seamus Garland, Goal Financial's CFO, said, "Our existing SLCC, ELAB, and HEF structures give us a unique funding capacity that will allow us to price the acquisition of FFELP loans aggressively relative to more traditional FFELP loan buyers."  

Ken Ruggiero, Goal Financial's President, said, "With this initial purchase completed, we are actively seeking larger portfolios of FFELP loans to acquire. The trusts have been retiring Auction Rate Securities at discounts to par for the past two years. This new program will offer an additional approach to maximizing returns in the trusts."  Goal's loan acquisition program leverages its management team and its existing financial infrastructure – the same infrastructure that enabled the company since 2001 to successfully execute loan purchase and sale transactions totaling over $9 billion. Sellers of FFELP loans should contact Goal at (619) 684-7218.

About Goal Financial

Headquartered in Alexandria, VA, with offices in San Diego, Route 66 Ventures, LLC (dba Goal Financial), has originated over $9 billion in government guaranteed student loans and helped over 200,000 graduate and undergraduate students and families manage their debt through federal and private loan programs. For more information about Goal Financial, contact Ken Ruggiero at (619) 684-7218 or visit www.goalfinancial.net.

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