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The Industry’s Most Comprehensive Treatment of the Modern MBS/ABS Marketplace–From the Pioneers Who Helped Create the Market "Lakhbir Hayre’s work ranks in the top echelon of fixed income research of the past two decades. Both new entrants and seasoned market professionals can benefit from the insights compiled in this volume."–Greg Parseghian, Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Freddie Mac "This is an enormously comprehensive study of the MBS and ABS markets by one of the most respected people in the field. Its unmatched wealth of institutional and technical detail make it an invaluable reference to anyone interested in these markets."–Richard Stanton, Associate Professor of Finance, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley "This is an excellent and comprehensive guide that is clearly required reading for anyone interested in these important financial markets. I particularly liked the many explicit examples of prepayment modeling approaches."–Francis A. Longstaff, Professor of Finance, The Anderson School, University of California, Los Angeles High credit quality and superior returns have contributed to the growth of MBSs and ABSs in the institutional investment community. Let the Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities provide you with the expert, in-depth treatment you need to understand–and profit from–MBS and ABS investments.
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Mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) and asset-backed securities (ABSs) are the largest sector of today’s bond market, with billions of dollars of securities traded every day. They constitute a core holding of almost all U.S. institutional fixed income investors. The authoritative Salomon Smith Barney Guide to Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Securities assembles recent research conducted by analysts at Salomon Smith Barney–as well as insightful analysis of this research–to provide a comprehensive, sophisticated, and unambiguous examination of today’s MBS and ABS markets. Organized sequentially, with self-contained chapters that can be read on their own to eliminate the confusion so often found in other books of its type, this invaluable guide is an ideal training tool and resource for investment professionals, institutional investors, pension funds, hedge funds, and all others looking for clear, concise, and complete treatment of this multifaceted subject. Look to this guide for information on topics including:
- A general framework for modeling of prepayment rates on residential mortgage loans–critical in estimating security cashflows and investment characteristics
- How the Internet is changing the mortgage origination process, and the resulting implications for prepayment patterns
- Option-adjusted spreads–the standard valuation methodology that combines prepayment and term structure models
- Collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), one of the largest sectors of today’s market
- Nonmortgage-related ABSs, including up-to-date innovations in credit card ABSs
- MBS and collateralized mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) markets in the United Kingdom, and the rapidly growing MBS market in Australia
- Appendices that include a glossary of common terms, a guide to investor resources including Web sites, information on risk-based capital standards, and basic mortgage mathematics
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