{"id":400719,"date":"2020-05-20T14:21:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/?p=400719"},"modified":"2020-05-20T15:26:07","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T19:26:07","slug":"new-mortgage-backed-securities-market-index-from-ftse-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/news\/products\/new-mortgage-backed-securities-market-index-from-ftse-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"New mortgage-backed securities market index from FTSE Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTSE Russell Canada has introduced a benchmark for the domestic mortgage-backed securities market, providing a new way to access the fixed income investments.<\/p>\n<p>The index provider said Wednesday in a release that the FTSE Canada NHA MBS 975 Index (which stands for National Housing Act mortgage-backed securities) provides a transparent measure for the almost $500-billion market.<\/p>\n<p>It said that BMO Asset Management has already licensed the index for the BMO Canadian MBS Index ETF, which began trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange in February.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Canadian investors now have access to the asset diversification, risk mitigation and yield opportunities of the Canada mortgage bond market through a transparent, rules-based index,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p>Mortgage-backed securities are insured by the Canada Mortgage Housing Corporation and assigned a AAA rating, it added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a transparent, rules-based index for a growing market, the company said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176169,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2315,2312],"tags":[36184,2809],"yst_prominent_words":[5382,61127,61126,59210,45807,29924,11801,10818,6428,6365,1384,4154,2172,2146,2145,2116,2113],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400720,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400719\/revisions\/400720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400719"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmentexecutive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=400719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}