Student Loans ABS

I went down the rabbit hole of Student Loan Asset-Backed Securities. What’s the general sentiment around them? Curious to know if anyone has had any experience buying SLABs or private loan portfolios.

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They are precisely the reason student loan debt will never be forgiven. Too valuable to have an asset you can securitize that has effectively 0 default risk. Just imagine the house of cards you could build on top of something like that...

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