Laissez-Faire Guy asked:


Supposedly, investors who invested in these mortage backed securities are taking a bath, and the securities have declined big time, right?

Well, these securities must have some value, I mean not every loan is defaulting, and even the ones that are are backed by homes with some real value.

So I figure since everyone is freaking out about these securities, they must be really cheap now. How can I invest in them at today’s sale prices?

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3 Responses to “How can I buy these risky mortgage backed securities I keep hearing about?”

  1. richard t on October 31st, 2008 11:16 pm

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    go to any commercial bank or brokerage house…open a account///////////// tell them what you want to buy and do it………..

  2. Steve B on November 2nd, 2008 2:08 pm

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    They are sold in ‘packages’ of (at least) a few million $$’s at a time ….. there MAY be some specialist Funds that invest in this type of security .. however you might do better to simply buy Bank shares or property funds direct :-)

  3. Oh Boy! on November 5th, 2008 11:05 pm

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    These MBS trade in units of several million dollars. You can’t invest $10,000.

    Also, it requires a significant amount of back office support to track each individual mortgage in the portfolio and account for payments, prepayments, pay offs, etc.

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