MORTGAGE BACKED SECURITY
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Debt instrument with no ownership right to each mortgage's fractional part of its pool of mortgages backing the security. These are considered 'investment grade' instruments, with paid income generated by the underlying mortgage's principle and interest payments. It is a type of mortgage derivative, Unlike unsecured securities. Also known as mortgage backed certificate.
By Henry Campbell Black
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).