First introduced more than thirty-five years ago, mortgage-backed securities have, over
the past decade, burgeoned into one of the most dynamic sector of the fixed income market.
Nowadays no investment portfolio would be considered truly balanced without a significant
exposure to the MBS sector to match that of a broad-based bond market index and enhance
returns relative to a benchmark.
From the beginning, Frank. Fabozzis investment classic, The Handbook of Mortgage Backed
Securities, has been instrumental in fueling the phenomenal growth of the market. Through
five successive editions, the Handbook has armed investors with timely, authoritative
coverage of all key fundamental and technical aspects of MBS, along with frank appraisals
of the opportunities as well as the risks involved with these continually evolving
instruments.
This new edition is no exception. Like its predecessors, it brings together
contributions by an all-star team of experts who share what they know about today's MBS
markets. Much more than a mere revision, The Handbook of Mortgage-Backed Securities, Sixth
Edition has been substantially updated and expanded. In it you'll find up-to-the-minute
coverage of the latest mortgage-backed products, valuation methodogies, prepayment models,
relative value analysis, trading techniques, and portfolio strategies, organized around
the seven key areas of:
• The fundamentals of MBS products and the mortgage market
• Alternative mortgage products from hybrids and Alt-A mortgages to asset-backed
securities
• Mortgage derivatives, including stripped MBS, PAC bonds, Z bonds, companion bonds
with schedules, and inverse float! cmos
• Prepayment models and behaviol an emphasis on the latest advanc prepayment modeling
and valuat
• Portfolio management tools and techniques, from MBS valuation r to drivers of the
call decision
• Hedging tools and approaches, in the use of options and prepayme derivatives and
tips on how to in" the structure of MSR hedging pro
• Commercial mortgage-backed se including CMBS default risk man types of CMBS
10s, cash flow characteristics, and more
Following in a proud tradition begu century ago, The Handbook of Mor Securities, Sixth
Edition is the definitive those seeking to understand and capitalize generation of MBS
products techniques.
FRANK J. FABOZZI, Ph.D.. CFA, CPA,
is the Federick Frank Adjunct Professor of Finance versitys School of Management. One (
foremost authorities on fixed income s derivative instruments, Dr. Fabozzi is Journal of
Portfolio Management and th author of more than forty books, ir acclaimed The Handbook of
Fixed Ineoi Prior to joining the Yale faculty, he wa ulty of MITs Sloan School of Manage
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