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  2. What are mortgage-backed securities? - AOL

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    Mortgage-backed securities offer key benefits to the players in the mortgage market, including banks, investors and even mortgage borrowers themselves. However, investing in an MBS has pros and ...

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

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    They may create a range of bonds that are very safe to a little risky, with lower payouts for the safer bonds and higher payouts for riskier notes. ... Pros and cons of the secondary mortgage ...

  4. Mortgage-backed security - Wikipedia

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    A mortgage bond is a bond backed by a pool of mortgages on a real estate asset such as a house. More generally, bonds which are secured by the pledge of specific assets are called mortgage bonds. Mortgage bonds can pay interest in either monthly, quarterly or semiannual periods. The prevalence of mortgage bonds is commonly credited to Mike Vranos.

  5. Securitization - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Pros and cons of bond funds in a lower interest rate ... - AOL

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    Here’s a look at the pros and cons of bond funds in a lower interest rate environment. Pros. Rise in bond prices: When rates fall, the prices of bonds held by the bond fund go up. This is ...

  7. Are some bonds safer than others? - AOL

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    Types of bonds more likely to be affected by liquidity risk: High-yield bonds, muni bonds, some corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities and asset-backed securities. Bonds vs. bond funds ...

  8. Zero-coupon bonds: What they are, pros and cons, tips to invest

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    What are the pros and cons of zero-coupon bonds? A bond that doesn’t pay interest might seem a little paradoxical compared to the typical expectation of investing in bonds, but there might be a ...

  9. The little-known factor that could help mortgage rates go lower

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    A component of mortgage rates known as the spread has been falling in recent weeks after years of being elevated. If it keeps dropping, that could help send rates lower in the months ahead ...