"This book contends that the housing markets and shadow banking have been involved in a kind of "dance" over the last two decades. It traces this dance to be between the roles of mortgage markets since the 1980s in both the US and China and the developments of securitization and "shadow banks."...

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 Valuation of Fixed-Income Securities -- Chapter 1 The Time Value of Money -- 1.1 Present Value -- 1.2 Future Value -- 1.3 Present Value of an Annuity -- 1.4 Future Value of an Annuity...

"A complete guide to investing in and managing a portfolio of mortgage- and asset-backed securities Mortgage- and asset-backed securities are not as complex as they might seem. In fact, all of the information, financial models, and software needed to successfully invest in and manage a portfolio...

There have been a number of estimates of the total amount of funding provided by the Federal Reserve to bail out the financial system. For example, Bloomberg recently claimed that the cumulative commitment by the Fed (this includes asset purchases plus lending) was $7.77 trillion. As part of the...