A collateralized debt obligation (CDO) is a complex financial product backed by a pool of loans and other assets and sold to institutional investors.

CDOs are structured debt instruments and when comprised of mortgages are known as mortgage-backed securities (MBS).

Learn more about mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations and synthetic investments. Find out how these investments are created.

A synthetic CDO is a collateralized debt obligation that invests in credit default swaps or other non-cash assets to gain exposure to fixed income.

A mortgage is a type of loan used to purchase or maintain a home, plot of land, or other type of real estate. The borrower agrees to pay the lender over ...

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A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) is a type of mortgage-backed security that contains a pool of mortgages bundled together and sold as an investment.

A collateralized debt obligation is a product structured by a bank in which an investor buys a share of a pool of bonds, loans, asset-backed securities, and ...

CDO collateral became dominated by high risk (BBB or A) tranches recycled from other asset-backed securities, whose assets were usually subprime mortgages.

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