Individual investors can buy mortgage-backed securities (MBS) primarily through or mutual funds , as purchasing individual mortgage pools directly is often complex and restricted to institutional players . The Story of "The Neighborhood Pool"
Imagine your local bank, , lends money to 100 families in your town so they can buy homes. Normally, the bank would wait 30 years for those families to pay them back. However, Bank A wants to help more families right now, but they’ve run out of cash to lend . What are mortgage-backed securities? how to buy mbs