TOXIC ASSETS
Assets whose value had substantially declined when the secondary market disappears. The term was coined during the financial crisis between 2008 and 2009 on mortgage-backed securities, credit default swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. Also called troubled assets.
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Permutation
In mathematics, one of several ways of arranging or picking a set of items. The number of permutations possible for arranging a given a set of n nu ...
Hope Now Alliance
Hope Now Alliance was established in 2007 to respond to upset homeowners in the U.S. This organization consists of investors in mortgage-backed sec ...
Sample Selection Bias
Sample Selection Bias is a type of bias resulting from the selection of non-random data meant for statistical analysis.
Mortgage Constant
Ratio between the annual amount payable to the original value of the mortgage loan plus principal and interest. This is only applicable to loans wi ...
Broad-Based Weighted Average
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