CWMBS $285.7MM Mtge P-T Ctfs Series 2002-14 Rated By Fitch Ratings.Business Editors CWMBS, Inc.'s (CWMBS) $285.7 million Mortgage Pass-Through Trust series 2002-14, Alternative Loan Trust 2002-9, classes A-1 through A-8, PO and A-R (senior certificates) are rated 'AAA' by Fitch Ratings Fitch Ratings An international rating agency for financial institutions, insurance companies, and corporate, sovereign, and municipal debt. Fitch Ratings has headquarters in New York and London and is wholly owned by FIMALAC of Paris. . The 'AAA' rating on the senior certificates reflects the 4.75% subordination provided by classes M, B-1, B-2, and the privately offered classes B-3 through B-5 certificates. Fitch believes the above credit enhancement Credit Enhancement A method whereby a company attempts to improve its debt or credit worthiness. Notes: Credit enhancements take many different forms. An example of a credit enhancement would be conversion rights added on to a debt instrument in order to lower the issuing will be adequate to support mortgagor defaults as well as bankruptcy, fraud and special hazard losses in limited amounts. In addition, the ratings also reflect the quality of the underlying mortgage collateral, strength of the legal and financial structures and the master servicing capabilities of Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP (Countrywide Servicing), a direct wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. (CHL CHL crown-heel length. ). The senior certificates represent an ownership interest in a pool of conventional, fully amortizing, 20- to 30-year fixed-rate, mortgage loans secured by first liens on one-to four-family residential properties. As of the cut-off date (June 1, 2002), the mortgage pool demonstrates an approximate weighted-average original loan-to-value ratio Loan-to-value ratio (LTV) The ratio of money borrowed on a property to the property's fair market value. (OLTV OLTV Original Loan-to-Value ratio OLTV on Line Television ) of 75.63%. Approximately 9.57% and 62.21% of the loans were originated under the No Income/No Asset and Reduced Documentation Programs, respectively. Cash-out refinance loans represent 15.01% of the mortgage pool, second homes 4.05% and investor properties 2.76%. The average loan balance is $434,659. The three states that represent the largest portion of mortgage loans are California (44.84%), Florida (5.14%) and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (4.36%). The collateral characteristics provided are based off the initial mortgage loans as of the cut-off date. Fitch ensures that the deposits of subsequent loans conform to representations made by Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. Approximately 43.64% and 56.36% of the initial mortgage loans were originated under CHL's Standard Underwriting Guidelines and Expanded Underwriting Guidelines, respectively. Mortgage loans underwritten pursuant to the Expanded Underwriting Guidelines may have higher loan-to-value ratios, higher loan amounts, higher debt-to-income ratios and different documentation requirements than those associated with the Standard Underwriting Guidelines. In analyzing the collateral pool, Fitch adjusted its frequency of foreclosure and loss assumptions to account for the presence of these attributes. CWMBS purchased the mortgage loans from CHL and deposited the loans in the trust, which issued the certificates, representing undivided beneficial ownership in the trust. For federal income tax purposes, an election will be made to treat the trust fund as multiple real estate mortgage investment conduits Real Estate Mortgage Investment Conduit (REMIC) A pass-through tax entity that can hold mortgages secured by any type of real property and can issue multiple classes of ownership interests to investors in the form of pass-through certificates, bonds, or other legal forms. (REMICs). |
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