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FNMA See Federal National Mortgage Association. Fannie Mae (Federal National Mortgage Association) What Does Fannie Mae—Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) Mean? A government-sponsored enterprise (GSE) that was created in 1938 to expand the flow of mortgage money by creating a secondary mortgage market. Fannie Mae is a publicly traded company that operates under a congressional charter that directs it to channel its efforts into increasing the availability of affordable home ownership for low-, moderate-, and middle-income Americans. Investopedia explains Fannie Mae—Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA) Fannie Mae purchases and guarantees mortgages that meet its funding criteria. Through this process it secures mortgages to form mortgage-backed securities (MBSs). The market for Fannie Mae's MBSs is extremely large. Pension funds, insurance companies, and foreign governments are among the investors in Fannie Mae's MBSs. To promote home ownership, Fannie Mae also holds a large portfolio of its own and other institutions' MBSs, known as its retained portfolio. To fund this portfolio, Fannie Mae issues debt known in the marketplace as agency debt. Fannie Mae's “little brother” is Freddie Mac. Together, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac purchase or guarantee 40 to 60% of all mortgages originated annually in the United States, depending on market conditions and consumer trends. Related Terms: How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This article examines when ordinary loss treatment will be allowed for hedging transactions, based on FNMA and the final regulations. The recently adopted Internal Revenue Service rules on hedging transactions certainly are welcome but, on examination, seem to do little more than capitulate to the decision on hedging rendered by the Tax Court in FNMA v. The whipsaw possibility was obliterated to a large extent by the Tax Court decision in Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), 100 TC 541 (1993), in which losses sustained on certain interestrate futures, short sales of Treasury securities and put options on Treasury futures were allowed as ordinary, since they were an "integral part" of a system by which FNMA purchased and held mortgages. |
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