Assignment
As an assistant vice president at a regional bank, your boss has tasked you and the other AVPs to work in a group to acquire $100 million of residential mortgages to be securitized in a pass-through MBS. There must be between 250-300 mortgages in the portfolio, none of them with a maturity below 200 months or greater than 360 months. In the interest of time, your boss suggests that the group assign group members to find (meaning create some hypothetical) a group of diverse mortgages (meaning each with a different interest rate, principal amount, and maturity) and then as a group, aggregate each member's mortgages into a pool to calculate the portfolio WAC and WAM. Your group's task is to provide your boss with a summary spreadsheet that shows the individual mortgages and the portfolio's WAC and WAM calculations, along with a memo of at least 300 words that explains the following:
• The number of residential mortgages in the portfolio and the range of principal values, interest rates, and maturities
• The residential mortgage portfolio's WAC and WAM
• A discussion of the WAC of the pass-through MBS the group has created and whether it represents a coupon rate indicative of a high credit quality or a lower credit quality pool of mortgages. Include in the discussion the MBS issue's spread over the comparable Treasury rate.
• Include in your analysis at least 1 outside source for the Treasury rate.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.