Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS): Basic to Advanced

Description

This course will introduce you to a variety of the more  commonly-encountered types of mortgage-backed securities, pass-through  securities, and CMO's, as well as a lot of the concepts used to assess  the attractiveness of mortgage-backed securities and a lot of the  details to help understand mortgage-backed securities and how they work. 

This course contains 21 lectures among 4 sections: 

• Introduction to Mortgages and Mortgage Backed Securities

• Pass Through Securities

• Analysis of Pass Through Securities

• Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs)

More about this course and Starweaver

This course is led by a seasoned capital markets industry practitioner and executive with many years of hands-on, in-the-trenches financial markets sales, trading and analysis work. It has been designed, produced and delivered by Starweaver. Starweaver is one of the most highly regarded, well-established training providers in the World, providing training courses to many of the leading financial institutions and technology companies, including:

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What You Will Learn!

• Describe the characteristics and types of mortgage loans and how they are securitized into mortgage-backed securities (MBS)
• Understand the role of MBS in the broader fixed income market and how they are used in portfolio construction and asset allocation strategies
• Evaluate the suitability of different MBS for different investor objectives and risk tolerances
• Determine the appropriate pricing and valuation techniques for different types of MBS
• Analyze the impact of interest rates and prepayment rates on the value of MBS
• Analyze the performance and risk characteristics of pass-through securities and how they differ from other types of MBS
• To describe what are pass-through securities, their risks, and how prices & yields are calculated for these instruments
• Understand the mechanics of collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), their purpose and how they are structured to manage risk and return

Who Should Attend!

• Analysts and associates in commercial, corporate and investment banking.

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