Mortgage-Backed Securities: Products, Structuring, and Analytical Techniques

Mortgage-Backed SecuritiesIn the last two decades, the market for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) has quickly grown. In addition to its size, this market has also become increasingly flexible and dynamic.Frank Fabozzi, Anand Bhattacharya, and William Berliner understand the intricacies of the MBS market, and now, with Mortgage-Backed Securities, they share this essential information with you.Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, this comprehensive guide skillfully addresses the investment characteristics, creation, and analysis of mortgage-backed securities. Each informative chapter outlines the products, structures, and analytical techniques traders and investors need to be familiar with in order to succeed on a daily basis.Written for financial professionals by financial professionals, this book covers a variety of MBS-related issues, including: An overview of prepayment and default behavior and performance metrics Fundamental MBS structuring techniques—such as divisions of principal and interest The structuring of private-label CMOs Measuring MBS interest-rate risk Evaluating senior MBS and CMOs An option theoretic approach to valuing MBS

About the Author

Anand K. Bhattacharya is a Managing Director at Countrywide Securities Corporation (CSC), a wholly owned affiliate of Countrywide Financial Corporation. He joined CSC in 1999, where he is responsible for the management of fixed income research and strategies. Immediately prior to joining Countrywide, he was Managing Director responsible for capital markets, risk management and portfolio management oversight at Imperial Credit Industries Inc (ICII) from March 1998 to January 1999. Prior to his employment at ICII, Dr. Bhattacharya held positions at Prudential Securities Inc. from 1990 to 1998 with the most recent position as Managing Director, Global Head of Fixed Income Research. His prior employment includes positions in fixed income research and product management at Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, Franklin Savings Association and its subsidiaries and Security Pacific Merchant Bank. Dr. Bhattacharya has written extensively in various facets of fixed income analysis and portfolio management. He has authored or coauthored over 65 publications in various academic and professional journals and industry handbooks. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Quantitative Methods from Arizona State University.

William S. Berliner is Executive Vice President in charge of the Mortgage Strategies group at Countrywide Securities Corporation. In this capacity, he oversees the generation of relative value analysis and strategies, and writes and edits many of the firm’s reports and publications. He began his career in the Government Operations Department of Bear, Stearns and Co. in 1985. He moved to the Mortgage trading desk in 1987 as a clerk and joined the CMO desk in 1989. He worked on the CMO desk at Bear until 1993, when he left to join Nikko Securities, where he eventually ran CMO trading. He joined Countrywide as a trader in 1996 and moved to the Research Department in early 1998. Mr. Berliner has a BA in Interpersonal Communications from Rutgers College and an MBA in Finance from the Rutgers Graduate School of Business.