mortgage-backed securities

Last year, fixed income exchange traded funds accounted for nearly a third of all ETF inflows. With the Federal Reserve having raised interest rates four times, many of 2018's most popular bond ETFs were short-term bond funds. A new fixed income ETF eschews short-term in favor of longer...

Investors who remember the role various real estate-related securities played in global financial crisis may be skittish about embracing an exchanged-traded fund dedicated to mortgage-backed securities, but some funds dedicated to this asset class are relatively low risk and offer investors an...

Former Bear Stearns mortgage-backed securities (MBS) trader Perry Rahbar recently wrote about the danger of financial innovation without transparency. According to Rahbar, innovation without transparency was the true underlying cause of the Financial Crisis. Rahbar argued that the MBS market itself...