I was playing with some assumptions for commercial loan amortizations and came up with the this Excel spreadsheet. For example: Assume the borrower wants to make payments quarterly, semi-annually, annually, or bi-monthly, instead of monthly, in order to match the borrowers source of income. You might want to oblige the borrower, but you still want […]

Just what everyone has been waiting for, another CPR vector analysis. I have at least two other CPR vector posts. This one allows for your own CPR model, with CPRs potentially changing each year. I say potentially, because one could keep the same CPR for numerous years. First enter a description of the pool on […]

Technical trading is a little out of my wheelhouse, but when I came across the exponential moving average (EMA), I thought it was interesting enough to build a model. You can do a Google search to see how various traders use a simple moving average (SMA) and an EMA. As is true in all my […]

Readers might remember my original post and spreadsheet http://pistulka.com/Other/?p=1473 in August 2015 called Cherry-Picking a Loan Portfolio.  That spreadsheet relied upon going through a loan portfolio and placing an X next to the loans you were interested in purchasing. It was one way I used to purchase participation loans from other credit unions. They would show […]

Most of my 50 year career was in fixed income investments (Bonds, MBS, etc.). We did not use MIRR, but we did have concepts that had some of the same advantages. If you have been following this blog, you have seen terms such as Holding Period Return (HPR) or Horizon Analysis. My posts on bond […]

Disclaimer: I am not an lawyer, and offer this spreadsheet free with no guarantees either written or implied, as to the appropriate use of this spreadsheet, or its accuracy. I am not recommending this spreadsheet to be used for any particular state or municipality.     Let us assume that you live in a state […]

Note: I have updated this post and spreadsheet with another way to create your own CPR vectors: Annual CPR Vectors Previously, I showed a way to vary the CPR prepayment rates http://pistulka.com/Other/?p=1300 on an amortization schedule. That method did not include ramps. This spreadsheet shows how to ramp CPRs up, down, and flat. In this […]

HEL (Home Equity Prepayment) is similar to the PSA prepayment model in that it starts a 2% CPR in the first month and increasing at 2% CPR until month 10. It then remains at 20% CPR for the remaining life of the pool. Increases or decreases to the standard 100 HEL are made the same […]

I have to admit that I have never purchased or sold manufactured housing loan pools, but am aware that those that do own or trade these pools, have different assumptions when applying prepayment rates. The MHP calculation is very close the PSA ramp, except that the first month starts with a 3.7 CPR, and each […]

In the previous spreadsheet used to calculate historic CPR and PSA, I used a separate sheet in the workbook to run an iteration on an amortization schedule in order to calculate PSA. An iteration is only necessary if the loan pools are 29 months old or less. I have replaced the amortization sheet with a […]

A reader asked if I had an example of a CMO Inverse IO, and I did not. Although I have not had access to a Bloomberg to check my assumption, I thought I would give it a try. Actual IO’s may vary from my example, but I think I have captured the essences of an […]

This is my fourth free CMO Excel spreadsheet. This post is going to be very short. You can find a lot of information online, so I am not going to add much. After entering the information on the “Inputs” sheet (yellow cells only), go to the “IO_PO” sheet where you will find ways of analyzing […]

I have posted two other examples (and Excel workbooks) of CMO structures in the past.  Floater & Inverse-Floater CMO and Sequential Pay CMO. Now, we are going to look at a CMO PAC (Planned Amortization Class). It is a simple example, with only two tranches, the PAC and Companion (or sometimes called Support) bonds. The PAC […]

Not all banks treat leap years the same, when calculating interest on deposits. Many financial institutions use basically the same method (or a close variation) I used in this formula. Check with your bank before relying on this method. The method I am referring to is: Interest is compounded daily. The balance on any given […]

My first post on this blog was in August of 2014 and it was called: No XNFV Excel Function? The idea was a formula for calculating future value with dates. There was a XNPV function for present value, but no function for future value. My formula looks like this: =SUMPRODUCT((1+APY)^((MAX(Dates)-Dates)/365)*Data) Of course there are other workarounds, […]