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Laurence G. Taff (Author)

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September 27, 2002
Providing the expertise of an internal business consultant to one of the largest issuers of mortgage securities, Investing in Mortgage Securities serves as a high-level introduction to mortgage securities presented within the framework of fixed income securities. It presents institutional investors, portfolio managers, traders, and sophisticated individual investors with a clear, concise, and unified approach to valuing, pricing, and investing in mortgage securities.

The author supplies a complete explanation of all types of mortgages and fixed income securities and highlights the differences between bonds, mortgages, and mortgage derivatives. The text walks you through all the necessary steps, including worked out mathematical examples, to ensure that you make the best buy and sell decisions possible. It also contains exercises to help you test your knowledge before making significant investment decisions.

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Laurence G. Taff (Cabin John, MD) is a Quantitative Systems Technologist for one of the nation's largest buyers of mortgages and issuers of mortgage-backed securities. An expert in mathematical modeling and software coding, he is also an astronomical physicist and former Branch Chief of scientific operations on the Hubble Space Telescope project. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Mortgages in the U.S. are mostly fixed-rate securities. Read the first page
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noncallable version, paying interest quarterly, paying interest semiannually, sequential pay classes, standard variable rate, unscheduled principal payments, compute the market value, callable instrument, mortgage bond market, initial principal amount, interest rate modeling, master servicer, cash floss, outstanding principal balance, float toy, modified duration, unpaid principal balance, weighted average coupon, bullet bond, prepayment speeds, periodic interest rate, coupon rate, interest rate path, current yield curve, prepayment risk
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Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, Ginnie Mae, Federal Home Loan Bank, Treasury Bill, Treasury Note, European Central Bank, European Union, Wall Street, World War, Bank of England, German Pfandbrief, Monte Carlo, Numerical Example Consider, Payment Number Nominal Value, Rural Housing Service
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