Jumbo Pool
Categories: Bonds
That really big house with the really big pool you went to a few times as a kid. The jumbo pool. The pool like no other.
Once you grow up, a new kind of jumbo pool catches your eye: the Ginnie Mae II mortgage-backed security (MBS) multi-issuer pool.
Now we’re talking.
Jumbo pools are the next level in the financial evolution of MBSs. We started with single-issuer pools, which place a bunch of similar mortgages together, all by the same bank. Jumbo pools have more than one issuer, and they’re huge. Investors like jumbo pools because they’re so big, which means you can get great diversity and shared risk. If you invest in a jumbo pool, you’ll get principal and interest payments every year or so from the borrowers whose mortgages are in the jumbo pool.
Investing in a jumbo pool may sound fun...but it’s not so much if too many borrowers in the pool refinance, i.e. pay off their entire mortgage, or pay off their mortgage quickly. These are the risks that come with investing in MBSs in general.
Good for them, anti-climactic for you.
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exciting is that that man-eating plant over there
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mortgages so why would you collateralize a mortgage obligation anyway answer risk
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whole they would create a much less volatile environment than the former
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any given time were you know in do rest as people were dead beating and not [Man playing video games]
paying what they promised to pay back right well collateralizing this group
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Street being Wall Street where greed is good until it's not abused the notion of [Boxing gloves punch collateralized]
collateralized mortgages and actually applied the notion of collateral against
them pledging as collateral the equity in these mortgages or packages of
mortgages and then borrowing against them so it's like leverage on leverage,
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social chairman sending the pledges to get graham crackers marshmallows and
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he just put it out like what was he imbibing there all right well in fact
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it was helium inside of the couch that exploded in the form of many of these [Helium explodes on a couch]
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which resulted in the near bankruptcy of the United States financial system
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