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The Rating Agencies. Guide to Fixed Income: Types and How to Invest Fixed income refers to investments that produce steady cash flows for investors, such as fixed rate interest and dividends. This arrangement has been cited as one of the primary causes of the subprime mortgage crisis which began in ; some securities, particularly mortgage-backed securities MBSs and collateralized debt obligations CDOs , were rated highly by the credit ratings agencies and thus heavily invested in by many organizations and individuals, but were then rapidly and vastly devalued due to defaults, and fear of defaults, on some of the individual components of those securities, such as home loans and credit card accounts. The risks associated with investment-grade bonds or investment-grade corporate debt are considered significantly higher than those associated with first-class government bonds.
