By Albert Fowerbaugh and Julie Rodriguez Aldort ( August 13, 2018, 12:00 PM EDT) -- With the low interest rates that have prevailed since the Great Recession in 2008, auto loan securitizations and their higher yields have attracted significant attention from investors. More than $70 billion in auto-backed securities were sold in 2017.[1] At the same time, auto loan delinquencies are on the rise — as of the end of March 2018, 4.3 percent of auto loan balances were 90 or more days delinquent.[2] With memories of the Great Recession still fresh, fears that the auto loan securitization market is headed for a crash similar to the ill-fated residential mortgage-backed securities, or RMBS, market are on the rise....