Agency Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS) – US Govt Bonds That Yield Double or Triple Treasuries
Agency mortgage backed securities are bundles of mortgages which are packaged together as one instrument and sold like a bond. The payments from all the individual mortgages are then distributed to the holder of the agency mortgage backed security.
How Agency Mortgage Backed Securities Work
There are millions of residential mortgages – you may have one yourself. While in some cases banks directly lend the money of the depositors, a large portion of time they don’t. Instead, they sell the mortgages to a government agency (GNMA) or quasi governmental agency (Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac). (tovább…)