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Standard Formulas for the Analysis of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Other Related Securities

Table of Contents

A. Computational Accuracy

B. Prepayments

1. Cash Flows 2. Mortgage Prepayment Models 3. Average Prepayment Rates for Mortgage Pools 4. ABS Prepayment Rates for Asset Pools

C. Defaults

1. Mortgage Cash Flows with Defaults: Description of Basic Concepts 2. Specifying Mortgage Default Assumptions: Standards and Definitions 3. Standard Formulas for Computing Mortgage Cash Flows with Defaults 4. The Standard Default Assumption (SDA) 5. Use of the SDA for Products Other Than 30-Year Conventional Mortgages 6. Numerical Examples of SDA

D. Assumptions for Generic Pools

1. Mortgage Maturity 2. Mortgage Age 3. Mortgage Coupon

E. Day Counts

1. Calendar Basis 2. Delay Days

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F. Settlement-Based Calculations

1. General Rules 2. CMO Bonds with Unknown Settlement Factors 3. Freddie Mac Multiclass PCs (REMICs)

G. Yield and Yield-Related Measures

1. General Rules 2. Calculations for Floating-Rate MBS 3. Putable Project Loans

H. Accrual Instruments

1. Average Life of Accrual Instruments 2. Accrual Calculations for CMO Z-Bonds

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A. Computational Accuracy

Many common calculations for mortgage-related securities (yields, durations, prepayment rates, etc.) require the calculation of a large number of intermediate quantities (cash flows, principal balances, etc.). All intermediate calculations should be carried out to their full precision, preserving at least ten significant digits of accuracy. This will generally require double-precision computer arithmetic. The only quantities that should be assigned an integer variable type are those that represent whole numbers of days, months or years.

Only when all computations are complete should the final values be rounded for display. Results may be shown to any desired number of decimal places, provided that the last digit presented has been obtained by rounding and not by truncating the complete figure.

The numerical examples that appear throughout the document are intended to provide simple checks against improper implementation of the Standard Formulas, not an exhaustive set of benchmarks that would guarantee conformance.

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B. Prepayments

1. Cash Flows

For a level-payment fixed-rate mortgage pool with gross weighted-average coupon C%, current weighted-average remaining term M months, and M0-M months elapsed since origination, the amortized loan balance (as a fraction of par) is

( )-M

1 ? 1 + C 1200

( ) BAL = 1 ? 1 + C 1200 -M0

and the scheduled gross monthly payment (also as a fraction of par) is

GROSS MORTGAGE PAYMENT = PRINCIPAL + INTEREST

= ( ) ( BAL1 - BAL2 + BAL1 * C 1200)

C 1200

( ) = 1 ? 1 + C 1200 -M0 .

The net payment passed through to investors consists of the scheduled gross payment above,

plus unscheduled prepayments, minus a servicing fee of BAL1 * S/1200, where the servicing percentage (S) is the difference between the gross coupon (C) and the net pass-through

coupon of the security.

The pool factor (F) expresses the principal remaining in the pool each month as a fraction of the original face amount. The survival factor (F/BAL) represents the fraction of $1.00 unit loans remaining in the pool from those originally present at issuance:

POOL FACTOR = SURVIVAL FACTOR * AMORTIZED LOAN BALANCE.

By convention, mortgage-related security analysis assumes that all prepayments are whole prepayments on $1.00 unit loans within the pool.

The cash flows of more complex mortgage securities (CMO bonds, Graduated-Payment Mortgages, Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, etc.) are governed by specific contractual features not addressed here.

Example: A mortgage pass-through is issued with a net coupon of 9.0%, a gross coupon of 9.5% and a term of 360 months. If prepayments for the first month are 0.00025022 (as a fraction of par), then the first cash flow paid to investors will consist of the following components:

(1) Scheduled Amortization =

(2) Unscheduled Prepayments =

(3) Gross Mortgage Interest =

(4) Servicing Fee

=

0.00049188, 0.00025022, 0.00791667, 0.00041667,

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Pass-Through Principal

= (1) + (2) = 0.00074210,

Pass-Through Interest

= (3) ? (4) = 0.00750000,

Pass-Through Cash Flow = (1) + (2) + (3) ? (4) = 0.00824210.

2. Mortgage Prepayment Models

The prepayment rate of a mortgage pool may be expressed in a number of different ways. These measures are equally valid, although a particular method may be more useful in a given instance.

a. The SMM (Single Monthly Mortality) rate of a mortgage pool is the percentage of the mortgage loans outstanding at the beginning of a month assumed to terminate during the month. That is, if in some month the initial and final pool factors are F1 and F2, respectively (as fractions of the original face amount), and the amortized loan balances are BAL1 and BAL2 (as fractions of par), then

F2

=

F1

*

BAL2 BAL1

*

1

-

SMM 100

.

An equivalent means of specifying a one-month prepayment rate is to separate the factor drop for the month (F1?F2) into scheduled and unscheduled principal payments. If there were no unscheduled prepayments during the month, then the factor for the end of the month would have been

Fsched

=

F1

BAL2 BAL1

.

The quantity F1?Fsched represents amortization for the month, and Fsched?F2 represents early prepayment of principal. The one-month prepayment rate can then be defined as

SMM = 100 Fsched - F2 Fsched .

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