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Annual Default Rate of Residential MBS Was 'Near Zero' in the 1990s.(mortgage-backed securities)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
The average annual default rate on structured finance deals rated by Fitch was 0.01% of principal during the past decade, the rating agency announced.
Moreover, the average annual default rate on residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities was even lower, Fitch said.
By studying $1.5 billion of RMBS, CMBS and asset backed securities rated by Fitch over an 11-year period, Fitch found that the structured finance market performed well. By comparison, the average annual default rates for U.S. corporate bonds equaled 0.77% between 1990 and 1999, Fitch said.
Fitch said the average annual default rate for about $500 billion of rated RMBS "was closer to zero" than to the overall 0.01% for the entire structured finance market. During the entire 11-year period, just 0.02% of the Fitch rated RMBS defaulted.
The strong economy, stable housing markets and a deep knowledge base of residential mortgage performance data all contributed to the low default rate, Fitch said.
The default rate for CMBS also was impressive. Only 2 classes of debt from one transaction of Fitch's $172 billion of rated CMBS defaulted, resulting in a 0.04% cumulative default rate and an average annual default rate of less than the 0.01% structured finance average.
The average annual default rate of the asset-backed securities was slightly higher than 0.01%, Fitch said.
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