When Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae pooled conforming mortgages into securities, they guaranteed the underlying mortgage loans
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When Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae pooled conforming mortgages into securities, they guaranteed the underlying mortgage loans against homeowner defaults. In contrast, there were no guarantees on the mortgages pooled into subprime mortgage–backed securities, so investors bore the exposure to credit risk. Were either of these arrangements necessarily a better way to manage and allocate default risk?
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ISE Essentials Of Investments
ISBN: 9781265450090
12th International Edition
Authors: Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, Alan Marcus
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