Freddie Mac loans under the Home Affordable Refinance Program will continue to perform better than pre-crisis mortgages, which Moody’s said bodes well for credit-risk transfers with exposure to those loans, but they will underperform more recent loans. According to an analysis by Moody’s, HARP borrowers benefited from significant payment reductions, were already showing good performance, and are likely to be more credit savvy. Freddie loans originated in 2005-07 that went through HARP had a 60-plus day delinquency rate of just 1.14 percent, as of March 2017. Moody’s said that’s well below the 6.84 percent 60-plus day delinquency rate for loans in that same period that did not go through HARP. But, the delinquency rates for HARP loans are...