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Contraction Risk

Contraction risk is a type of prepayment risk that is faced by holders of fixed-income securities and other types of...

Prepayment Risk

A type of risk that is associated with loans and loan pools (pooled loans, such as mortgage pools) in the...

Simultaneous-Pay CMO

A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) that converts a long-term mortgage product with irregular and unstable cash flows into short, medium,…

Simultaneous-Pay Bond

A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) that converts a long-term mortgage product with irregular and unstable cash flows into short, medium,…

Extension Risk

The risk that arises during periods of rising interest rates when borrowers tend to pay off their loans later than...

Prepayment Risk

The risk that arises from premature repayment (by a borrower to a lender) of the "outstanding" amount of a loan...

Planned Amortization Class Bond

A tranche of a collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) that converts a long-term mortgage product with irregular and unstable cash flows...

Companion Tranche

A tranche (specifically, a CMO tranche) that is designed to protect investors from prepayment risk. To that end, it absorbs...

TAC

It stands for targeted amortization class; a type of bond class that has a schedule for repayment of principal which...

Targeted Amortization Class

A type of bond class that has a schedule for repayment of principal which is protected against contraction risk for...