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ABS
“Tax havens! Derivatives! Bearer paper!”
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Secured MTN. Heavy, but dreary. |
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| Amendability |
Fat chance. If you don’t like it, ummm — well, what did you buy it for? |
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| Collateral |
Fully funded, backed with juicy second mortgages on residential homes in suburban Reno? Yum Yum. |
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| Transferability |
Bearer paper right? Good luck with that. Buy ABS, get stuck with it. |
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| Leverage |
Usually not, but skip down the tranches and just maybe! |
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| Fright-o-meter |
Can frighten the bejesus out of those of a nervous disposition. But bark worse than bite. |
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Asset-backed security — The term “asset-backed security”—
(A) means a fixed-income or other security collateralized by any type of self-liquidating financial asset (including a loan, a lease, a mortgage, or a secured or unsecured receivable) that allows the holder of the security to receive payments that depend primarily on cash flow from the asset, including—
- (i) a collateralized mortgage obligation;
- (ii) a collateralized debt obligation;
- (iii) a collateralized bond obligation;
- (iv) a collateralized debt obligation of asset-backed securities;
- (v) a collateralized debt obligation of collateralized debt obligations; and
- (vi) a security that the Commission, by rule, determines to be an asset-backed security for purposes of this section; and
(B) does not include a security issued by a finance subsidiary held by the parent company or a company controlled by the parent company, if none of the securities issued by the finance subsidiary are held by an entity that is not controlled by the parent company. [1]
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