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  2. What are mortgage-backed securities? - AOL

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    A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is an investment product that consists of thousands of individual mortgages. Investors can purchase MBSs on the secondary market and directly from the issuer. When ...

  3. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage-backed security (MBS) is a type of asset-backed security (an "instrument") which is secured by a mortgage or collection of mortgages. The mortgages are aggregated and sold to a group of individuals (a government agency or investment bank) that securitizes, or packages, the loans together into a security that investors can buy.

  4. Secondary mortgage market: What it is and how it works - AOL

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    The secondary mortgage market is a financial marketplace, where investors buy and sell bundled packages consisting of many individual loans — called mortgage-backed securities.

  5. Secondary mortgage market - Wikipedia

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    The secondary mortgage market is the market for the sale of securities or bonds collateralized by the value of mortgage loans.A mortgage lender, commercial bank, or specialized firm will group together many loans (from the "primary mortgage market" [1]) and sell grouped loans known as collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs) or mortgage-backed securities (MBS) to investors such as pension ...

  6. Option-adjusted spread - Wikipedia

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    For an MBS, the word "option" in option-adjusted spread relates primarily to the right of property owners, whose mortgages back the security, to prepay the mortgage amount. Since mortgage borrowers will tend to exercise this right when it is favourable for them and unfavourable for the bond-holder, buying an MBS implicitly involves selling an ...

  7. Mortgage-Backed Securities Return, but Are We Really Ready? - AOL

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  8. Residential mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    Residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by residential real estate mortgages. [1]Bonds securitizing mortgages are usually treated as a separate class, making reference to the general package of financial agreements that typically represents cash yields that are paid to investors and that are supported by cash payments received from homeowners ...

  9. Commercial mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    Commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) are a type of mortgage-backed security backed by commercial and multifamily mortgages rather than residential real estate. CMBS tend to be more complex and volatile than residential mortgage-backed securities due to the unique nature of the underlying property assets. [1]