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mutual funds holding commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS)

Which mutual funds, either open-end or closed-end, invest in CMBS? They have plunged in value and have been a cause of the stock market crash. An article on CMBS is at

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. I think CMBS may currently be a good buy, but as I have written inanother thread, non-government bonds now trade like stocks and arerisky investments.

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beliavsky
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The above may help a bit, or give you a lead. My guess is that CMBS were sprinkled around. It was interesting reading an article (below) written in 2004 about how the various classes of financial professionals were falling all over themselves trying to buy them .... Now they're collapsing all over themselves trying to get rid of them.

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dapperdobbs

open-end or closed-end, invest in CMBS?

Thank you. There is at least one mortgage REIT that specializes in CMBS.

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beliavsky

You have to go back and read each prospectus very closely. Plus they dont always name such investments in the same names used in the newspapers. Err on the side of caution if the investment isnt a recognizable name.

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rick++

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