asset-backed security
description: security with value derived from a commodity or asset
142 results
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by Anthony M. Townsend · 15 Jun 2020 · 362pp · 97,288 words
/data/1543151/000119312519103850/d647752ds1.htm#toc. 181deploy predatory pricing: United States Securities and Exchange Commission, Registration Statement. 182“have been created based on cash flows”: “Asset-Backed Security,” Investo-pedia, accessed December 7, 2018, https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/asset-backedsecurity.asp. 183Amazon’s body-tracking technology: “The Learning Machine: Amazon’s
House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street
by William D. Cohan · 15 Nov 2009 · 620pp · 214,639 words
told the jury that he suspected something was amiss when he noticed his bank account was “one or two million light.” In 2007, Peloton's asset-backed securities fund returned 87 percent to investors and was named the best fixed-income fund of the year by EuroHedge magazine. But the fund closed in
Age of Discovery: Navigating the Risks and Rewards of Our New Renaissance
by Ian Goldin and Chris Kutarna · 23 May 2016 · 437pp · 113,173 words
turn of the twenty-first century, these products were niche offerings; by the outbreak of the crisis, they had become the second-largest class of asset-backed securities sold in the US each year. Subprime mortgages were first.53 Industry concentration was also on the rise. In the United States between 1990 and
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by Kevin Mellyn · 30 Sep 2009 · 225pp · 11,355 words
benefited other than him. The man the press dubbed the ‘‘Sheriff of Wall Street’’ did nothing to head off the excesses behind the bubble in asset-backed securities that brought down Wall Street in 2008. In fact, by vindictively driving the one man from power who really understood AIG and who essentially managed
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 14 Sep 2017 · 520pp · 153,517 words
.S. markets with money. This oversupply of cheap cash lowered U.S. treasury note yields, and so the money flowed into the next safest investment— asset-backed securities, or home mortgages. The financial sector met the demand by selling, bundling, insuring, and creating new “structured products,” and then originating more mortgage loans. This
In FED We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic
by David Wessel · 3 Aug 2009 · 350pp · 109,220 words
was so enthusiastic about the innovation that he publicly announced it before the Treasury and the Fed had agreed on details. Called TALF, for Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, the program was targeted at the 40 percent of all U.S. consumer lending that didn’t stay on the books of banks
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
by Simon Johnson and James Kwak · 29 Mar 2010 · 430pp · 109,064 words
), including Salomon, grew from $33 billion in assets, or 1.4 percent of GDP, to $3.1 trillion in assets, or 22 percent of GDP. Asset-backed securities such as collateralized debt obligations (CDOs), which hardly existed in 1978, accounted for another $4.5 trillion in assets in 2007, or 32 percent of
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by Robert P. Baker · 4 Oct 2015
How I Became a Quant: Insights From 25 of Wall Street's Elite
by Richard R. Lindsey and Barry Schachter · 30 Jun 2007
set of proprietary analytical tools including prepayment and option-adjusted spread (OAS) models for fixed rate mortgages, adjustable rate mortgages, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), and asset-backed securities (ABS). He has also developed the Flow Uncertainty Index, which is used by insurance regulators to assess the risk of CMO portfolios. Mr. Davidson worked
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
debt together, and the risk of default is sufficiently uncorrelated, then you can structure part of the resulting cash flow into a safer security. An asset-backed security also has the extra benefit of a claim on an underlying real asset. It is not like the holder of a mortgage-backed security must
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, 513–14; investments in Old Babylonian period and, 55; Lowenfeld on benefits of investment for, 417; money fief for soldier and, 243; pension funds holding asset-backed securities for, 385; worldwide pension provisions for, 511, 516. See also life annuities; Social Security return on investment, 6–7; alternative use of capital and, 237
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