September 7th, 2004, 5:27 pm
ABS, MBS, CMBS, CMO, CDO, CBO, and CLO are subset of what are generally characterized as structured products. Below is what the acronyms stand for.MBS = Mortgage-Backed Securities, and the universe of MBS is vast, it is however reserved by market participants to denote the pass-through mortgage bonds (agency pass-through and nonagency pass-through). CMBS = Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities, which are trust certificates (bonds) backed by a pool of commercial mortgage loans. The certificates are tranched on the basis of prepayment and credit.CMO = Collateralized Mortgage-backed Obligations, which are pool of pass-through mortgage bonds tranched to reflect the degree of sensitivity to prepayment (particularly, agency CMO).ABS = Asset Backed Securities, for example home equity loans (HEL), credit cards, etc. These are securities backed by receivables [payments] that are either secured (HEL) or unsecured (credit card), tranched on the basis of prepayment and default risks.CDO = Collateralized Debt Obligation, for example, ABS CDO which consist of a portfolio of different ABS bonds, and the payments to the holders of these trust certificates are derived from the cash flows of the ABS bonds.CBO = Collateralized Bond Obligation, for example high yield [emerging market] CBO which consist of a portfolio of different high yield [emerging market] bonds.CLO = Collateralized [leveraged] Loan Obligation which consist of a portfolio of different leveraged loans.
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