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		<title><![CDATA[Ailing Commercial Mortgage Securities Deepen CRE Woes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The market for commercial mortgage-backed securities is in a funk, adding to problems for banks and investors by Alain Sherter]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:50:13 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Webster Financial Corporation Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question-and-answer session. Operator instructions Our first question is coming from Ken Zerbe with Morgan Stanley. Please state your question. Ken Zerbe &#8211; Morgan Stanley Good morning. James Smith Good morning. Ken Zerbe &#8211; Morgan Stanley I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:48:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Had Enough of This Economic Crisis Yet?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know about you, but I've had about enough of this economic crisis. Just today's news along is enough to make me want to hang myself. What do you do to get by? by Steve Tobak]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:04:31 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=151036]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article provides insight into commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS. CMBS are bonds that have been collateralized by a pool of commercial real estate mortgages. All of the principal and interest from the mortgages flow to bondholders over the life of the bonds. Typically CMBS trusts range in size from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Market Flourishes as Supply Tops $130 Billion]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=103647]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article discusses the commercial mortgage market and its perspective. Issuance in the commercial mortgage backed securities CMBS market continued to show strength in the first quarter of 1997, with total volume of $6.2 billion in the period. Although issuance is slightly off from the $7.1 billion issued in the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[VAR for Mortgage Backed Securities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=62320]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Value at Risk VaR is a mathematical approach for estimating the maximum potential loss of a given portfolio within some field of time with some likelihood of occurrence. Monte Carlo Simulation calculates the potential portfolio loss using market scenarios that were created from historic volatility and correlation estimates. As correlation...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parameter Stability and the Valuation of Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=118327]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper examines the effect of parameter instability on the valuation of mortgages and mortgage-backed securities. In particular, the paper prices 1997 issue mortgages subject to the 1998 bond market rally events assuming an empirically derived prepayment model constructed on data reflecting the 1993 experience and compares results to those...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities: Prepayment and Default]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74738]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the major developments in real estate finance during the 1990s was the emergence of a viable market for commercial mortgage backed securities. The growth in this market has spurred greater interest in empirical and theoretical research on commercial mortgage default and prepayment. The article employs a competing risks...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CMOs, Duration Risk and a New Mortgage]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=63165]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article presents an alternative mortgage that retains the fixed-rate feature of a fixed-rate mortgage FRM, but accelerates the principal amortization when interest rates rise, exposing the buyer to less duration risk in a rising interest rate environment. This mortgage, labeled the adjustable amortization mortgage AAM, is shown to have...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mortgage-Backed Securities]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=54468]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A mortgage-backed security MBS is a security that is based on a pool of underlying mortgages. MBS are usually based on mortgages that are guaranteed by a government agency for payment of principal and a guarantee of timely payment. The analysis of MBS concentrates on the nature of the underlying...]]></description>
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		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=109863]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This tutorial summarizes and gives information about Mortgage Backed Securities. Mortgage Backed Securities are an undiscovered gem. While these securities are primarily used to provide safe income there is also the opportunity to get some capital appreciation as interest rates fall. Principal and interest from the individual mortgages are used...]]></description>
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