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- Mortgage Backed Securities
- 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...
- White papers
- The Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Market Flourishes as Supply Tops $130 Billion
- 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...
- White papers 2004-06-23
- Commercial Mortgage-backed Securities: Prepayment and Default
- 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...
- White papers 2002-02-19
- CMOs, Duration Risk and a New Mortgage
- 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...
- White papers 2000-01-01
- Mortgage-Backed Securities
- 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...
- White papers
- Ailing Commercial Mortgage Securities Deepen CRE Woes
- The market for commercial mortgage-backed securities is in a funk, adding to problems for banks and investors by Alain Sherter
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- Parameter Stability and the Valuation of Mortgages and Mortgage-Backed Securities
- 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...
- White papers 2002-06-01
- Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
- 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...
- White papers 2004-10-26
Additional Resources
- Reverse Mortgage Brokers Are No Angels
- A few days ago, I put up a spoofy post called "Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary." One of my top picks was reverse mortgage broker. My reasoning:Â As the population ages and taps out any retirement savings left after the financial crisis, reverse mortgages, which are available...
- Blog posts 2009-10-29
- How to Know If a Reverse Mortgage Is Right for You
- If you're of the right age, short on cash, and sitting on hundreds of thousands of dollars in home equity, reverse mortgages can be a sweet deal. But these loans aren't sure things. Here's how to know if a reverse mortgage is right for you. ...
- Articles 2009-06-02
- Which Banks are -- and Aren't -- Modifying Home Loans?
- The federal Making Home Affordable initiative is off to a slow start in its mission of offering mortgage relief to millions of Americans hurt by the real estate bust. That's mostly because adjusting the loan terms, interest rate or principal for, say, a recently unemployed homeowner doesn't pay for...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Mortgages
- A list of mortgages filed with the Oklahoma County Clerk's office is published daily in The Journal Record. Information listed for each mortgage includes book and page numbers, names of the mortgagor and mortgagee, mortgage loan amount, property description, and when available the property's street address. Listings of mortgagor and...
- Research articles 1999-07-23
- Mortgage Survey: The buyer's market takes off
- Mortgage lenders are bending over backwards to attract new business, which is good news for home buyers. The range of products on the market has never been better and there are some great deals to be had. Currently, fixed-rate deals are attracting most interest. Recent hikes in interest...
- Research articles 1998-05-16
- Security National reports a decline in its earnings
- Salt Lake-based Security National Financial Corp. on Friday reported net earnings of $2.1 million, or 35 cents per share, for the year ended Dec. 31. That compares with $6.6 million, or $1.13 per share, for 2003. The company said revenue totaled $117.2 million last year, down from $145...
- Research articles 2005-04-16
- Trust promises security and yield.
- Byline: Mike Taylor Mar 11, 2007 (Money Management - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Trilogy Funds Management will soon launch a new fund, the Trilogy First Mortgage Income Trust. Roger Bacon, executive chair of the fund, says the new trust will invest only in registered...
- Research articles 2007-03-11
- More Seniors Find Financial Security with Allied Home Mortgage; Company Listed as Top Originator of Reverse Mortgages in FY 2002
- Business Editors HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 31, 2002 A rising number of senior citizens found financial security in fiscal year 2002 with help from Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation. The company was recently listed as a top originator of FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgages HECMs, or "reverse mortgages," in figures...
- Research articles 2002-10-31
- Should I Take a Reverse Mortgage?
- Dear Ali: I'm retired and some of my stocks have suffered all this financial trouble we've been having, so my banker mentioned a reverse mortgage to me. What do you think, is that worth looking into, or is there a catch? I can't tell if they're scams or not. ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- Five Jobs for Lousy Times and No Talent Necessary
- CNNMoney recently came out with its list of the "50 Best Jobs in America." The list assemblers ranked jobs based on personal satisfaction, job security, future growth, benefit to society, stress -- and presumably pay, since, after all, it's CNNMoney, not CNNSelf-gratification. The...
- Blog posts 2009-10-22
- Iceland shows the dangers ahead for us all
- In the build-up to the global crisis of 2008, tiny Iceland was a canary in the mine, a leading indicator of wider vulnerabilities. Now, amid growing optimism about global recovery, Iceland may again be a leading indicator of trouble ahead. In the space of a few days last October Iceland's...
- News items 2009-08-26
- LaSalle Bank missing tape of mortgage information.(Business)
- Byline: Mike Comerford Daily Herald Business Writer Presumed lost in the mail, a computer tape with confidential information on 2 million residential mortgages has been missing for about a month, according to LaSalle Bank Corp.' s mortgage unit. The tape listed mortgage...
- Research articles 2005-12-17
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