Mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are investments made up of bundled residential or commercial mortgages sold to investors. As homeowners make their monthly payments, investors receive returns. These ...

There are three main risks for investors in mortgage-backed securities: interest rate risk, prepayment risk, and default risk. Interest rate risk refers to the chance that market-wide interest ...

The most tangible concern is in the commercial real-estate market. But the rating agency's crystal ball is cloudy when it ...

Many experts say privatizing Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae could significantly alter the mortgage market. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac help keep the mortgage market stable by buying home loans, selling ...

prepayment, credit, and rollover risks. Mortgage REITs, or mREITs, provide real estate financing by originating or purchasing mortgages or mortgage-backed securities. They are an essential part of ...

Our research team assigns Neutral ratings to strategies they’re not confident will outperform a relevant index, or most peers, over a market cycle on a risk ... of a mortgage-backed security.

Mortgage rates are rising, causing a decline in applications, but creating an opportunity for investors to profit through MBS ...

Two Harbors Investment Corp. has a troubled outlook for common stock. Read why TWO stock’s preferred shares, particularly TWO ...

Any time you see us write MBS, or anywhere else for that matter, we're always going to be referring to Mortgage Backed Securities ... This is the "Prepayment Risk" that investors seek to avoid ...

Our research team assigns Negative ratings to strategies they’re confident will underperform a relevant index, or most peers, over a market cycle on a risk ... of a mortgage-backed security.