By the end of 2006, several large
mortgage bond issuers such as Ownit Mortgage Solutions and Sebring Capital went bankrupt (both in December).
Not exact matches
In short,
bonds are loans that investors make to governments, companies, pools of
mortgage owners or many other types of
issuers.
That's the same setup that enabled
bond issuers and
mortgage obligation repackagers to receive jacked - up credit ratings in the run - up to the Great Recession.
HDC has been the # 1
issuer in the nation of
mortgage revenue
bonds for affordable multi-family housing in each of the last three years on Thomson Reuters» annual list of multi-family
bond issuers.
The index will rank U.S. Treasuries, U.S. investment grade corporate
bonds, U.S. investment grade
mortgage backed securities, U.S. high yield debt and U.S. dollar denominated debt of emerging market
issuer according to their momentum / trend scores.
Documentation associated with a first
mortgage bond contains a first
mortgage on at least one of the
issuer's properties.
Read the prospectus for your fund and it will have the average duration as well as information about the
issuers of the
bonds it does invest in (govt, agency,
mortgage backed, foreign, high quality corporate, etc) and whether there are constraints on the target average maturity.
The Fund seeks to achieve this by investing primarily in the following categories of securities and instruments of corporations and other business entities: (i) secured and unsecured floating and fixed rate loans; (ii)
bonds and other debt obligations; (iii) debt obligations of stressed, distressed and bankrupt
issuers; (iv) structured products, including but not limited to,
mortgage - backed and other asset - backed securities and collateralized debt obligations; (v) equities; (vi) other investment companies, including business development companies; and (vii) real estate investment trusts.
Under the current SPV Structure, the
issuer's primary assets must be a
mortgage bond purchased from a depository institution.