Government Agencies Replaced Foreign Investors as Third-Largest MBS Investor Group at End of 2009
March 19, 2010
The Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have become the largest investors in U.S. residential mortgage securities in the world, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. The two agencies held $1.218 trillion of MBS as of the middle of this month, representing over 17 percent of the total supply in the market. Treasury has already ended its acquisition program... [Includes one chart]