New York, September 26, 2012 -- Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the ratings of two tranches and
confirmed the ratings of two tranches from resecuritized RMBS issued between
2005 and 2009. The resecuritized bonds are backed by underlying
bonds from different prime jumbo, Alt-A and Option ARM RMBS
transactions.
Complete rating actions are as follows:
Issuer: GSMSC Pass-Through Trust 2009-1R
Cl. 23A2, Confirmed at B2 (sf); previously on Jun 13,
2012 B2 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade
Issuer: MASTR Resecuritization 2005-4CI
Cl. N-2, Confirmed at Ca (sf); previously on
May 31, 2012 Ca (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade
Issuer: MASTR Resecuritization 2006-1CI
Cl. N3, Upgraded to Ba1 (sf); previously on Aug 3,
2012 B3 (sf) Placed Under Review for Possible Upgrade
Cl. N4, Upgraded to B3 (sf); previously on May 15,
2009 Downgraded to C (sf)
RATINGS RATIONALE
The actions reflect the recent performance of the pools of mortgages backing
the underlying bonds and the updated loss expectations on the resecuritzation
bonds.
The principal methodology used in these ratings was "Moody's Approach
to Rating US Resecuritized Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities"
published in February 2011. Please see the Credit Policy page on
www.moodys.com for a copy of this methodology.
The principal methodology used in determining the ratings of the underlying
bonds is described in the Monitoring and Performance Review section in
"Moody's Approach to Rating US Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities"
published in December 2008. For other methodologies used for estimating
losses on RMBS pools, please refer to the methodology publications
"2005 - 2008 US RMBS Surveillance Methodology" published in July
2011. Please see the Credit Policy page on www.moodys.com
for a copy of these methodologies.
The primary source of assumption uncertainty is the uncertainty in our
central macroeconomic forecast and performance volatility due to servicer-related
issues. The unemployment rate fell from 9.0% in April
2011 to 8.1% in August 2012. Moody's forecasts a
further drop to 7.8% for 2013. Moody's expects house
prices to drop another 1% from their 4Q2011 levels before gradually
rising towards the end of 2013. Performance of RMBS continues to
remain highly dependent on servicer procedures. Any change resulting
from servicing transfers or other policy or regulatory change can impact
the performance of these transactions.
As part of the sensitivity analysis, we stressed the updated losses
on the underlying bonds by an additional 10% and found that the
implied ratings of the resecuritization bonds do not change.
A list of these actions including CUSIP identifiers may be found at:
http://moodys.com/viewresearchdoc.aspx?docid=PBS_SF298723
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Jayesh Joseph
Analyst
Structured Finance Group
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.
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Deepika Kothari
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Moody's takes action on $9.8 million of resecuritized RMBS issued by miscellaneous issuers