Strong performance in the subprime mortgage sector helped fuel issuance of home-equity securitization in the early part of 2005, a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis and ranking reveals. Overall, $115.75 billion in new securities backed by home-equity loans, including subprime, second liens, high loan-to-value mortgages, home-equity lines-of-credit and other products – were issued during the first three months of this year. That was up 31.7 percent from the same period in 2004. …