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Through the securitization, the group of mortgages held by the group, e.g. a bank, is then grouped into a MBS and then sold off to investors as units or certificates. This process of passing on the group of mortgages to the investor is known as a ‘pass-through security’. [12]
Since prepayments typically rise as interest rates fall and vice versa, the basic (pass-through) MBS typically has negative bond convexity (second derivative of price over yield), meaning that the price has more downside than upside as interest rates vary. The MBS-holder's exposure to borrower prepayment has several names: call risk; extension risk
Just as this article describes a bond as a 30-year bond with 6% coupon rate, this article describes a pass-through MBS as a $3 billion pass-through with 6% pass-through rate, a 6.5% WAC, and 340-month WAM. The pass-through rate is different from the WAC; it is the rate that the investor would receive if he/she held this pass-through MBS, and ...
Securitization is the financial practice of pooling various types of contractual debt such as residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, auto loans, or credit card debt obligations (or other non-debt assets which generate receivables) and selling their related cash flows to third party investors as securities, which may be described as bonds, pass-through securities, or collateralized debt ...
MBS instruments are commonly referred to as "pass-through" certificates because the principal and interest of the underlying loans is "passed through" to investors; because of Ginnie Mae's financial backing, these MBS instruments are particularly attractive to investors and, like other Agency MBS instruments, are eligible to be traded in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Common underlying assets held may include mortgage-backed securities, commercial real estate bonds and corporate loans. The SPE issues bonds to investors in exchange for cash, which are used to purchase the portfolio of underlying assets. Like other ABS private label securities, the bonds are not uniform but issued in layers called tranches ...