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What does securitized mean? Securitized is the completed method by which a financial institution’s debt is assembled into an instrument, such as a bond. It is packaged in compliance with regulatory rules to be sold to the public, and thus the institution’s balance sheet is freed up to use the loaned capital for additional transactions.

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Finance allah shmoop What does securitized mean Well it happens

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when you make a security out of clay or mortgage

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bonds or debt backing two hundred thirty nine airplanes Well

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basically when you securitize something you're creating one large thing

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out of many small things to create liquidity and broader

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investment interest and flexibility and given category So think about

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the most famous securitisation in history Collateralized mortgage obligations or

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c M o's Where in a bunch of clever wall

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street people securitized subprime or high risk mortgages created that

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cmo security and then sold the crap out of it

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to investors And then bad things happened when an investor

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reviews one mortgage investment like a manny here Great guy

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Excellent golfer manny here is a gardener He makes forty

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five grand a year and now well meet His wife

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has moral The substitute school teacher She makes thirty grand

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a year Well they have three kids and for somehow

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able to get a loan for seven hundred fifty thousand

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dollars to buy this freaking amazing mansion Had one investor

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looked at this transaction while they would have realized that

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something was off Like how can a total family household

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income of seventy five grand be able to pay ten

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times that number in a mortgage Well a fudge here

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Ah fudge there a teaser rate for six months a

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sickly old uncle who promised to die soon and and

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yeah so when loans get securitized and it usually is

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loans are debt that gets securitized like this The theory

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was that there'd be less volatility less risk when lots

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of them were pooled together in one package But in

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fact there was on ly perversely extreme incentive to write

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loans from the various lending institutions writing those loans And

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there was poor management and poor governance in new well

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poor math and also porsche moving So the subprime mortgage

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securitized behemoth blew up famously and almost destroyed the american

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financial system Other things get securitized as well For example

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real estate holdings get securitized and what's called a reet

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or real estate investment trust which puts in tow one

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investing vehicle a whole bunch of usually aligned buildings like

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think a package of old age homes or a package

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of shopping malls or of office buildings or massage parlors

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or whatever floats your boat well the process simply makes

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one easily investable security out of lots of disconnected individual

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investments and usually that's good for everyone Everyone but this 00:02:23.908 --> [endTime] guy

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