PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Glenn M. Schultz AU - Frank J. Fabozzi TI - Primer on Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Specified Pools and Their Convexity Profiles AID - 10.3905/jfi.2022.1.133 DP - 2022 Feb 28 TA - The Journal of Fixed Income PG - jfi.2022.1.133 4099 - https://pm-research.com/content/early/2022/02/28/jfi.2022.1.133.short 4100 - https://pm-research.com/content/early/2022/02/28/jfi.2022.1.133.full AB - Specified pools are agency mortgage-backed securities whose loan pools have been found to exhibit different (i.e., superior to or inferior) convexity relative to generic to-be-announced pools. In this article, the authors describe the various sectors of the specified pool market, the convexity profile of the sectors of the specified pool market, and the monitoring of specified pool prepayment differentials.