Foreign Investors, Individuals, Step Up to the Plate In Booming Mortgage Securities Market of 2006
March 31, 2006
With some of the traditional heavy hitters in the MBS investment community playing a quieter role in 2005, foreign institutions and individual investors dramatically stepped up their participation in the residential MBS market, according to a new analysis by Inside MBS & ABS. Federal Reserve Board data show that the supply of residential MBS in the market grew by some $717.6 billion last year, hitting a record $5.139 trillion. That represented a huge supply of…