mortgage-backed funds

mortgage-backed funds definition - finance
A mutual fund that invests at least two-thirds of its portfolio in pooled mortgage-backed securities. Mortgage-backed securities are debt instruments whose principal and interest are backed up by underlying mortgage assets.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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