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Asset-backed loans

A lot of banks and brokerages will allow customers to borrow cash against their investments. These loans can be very competitive and dynamic: their interest is computed daily and can be marked to specific benchmark rates with very competitive markups (e.g. InteractiveBrokers offers Fed+1% loans, which today comes up at 1.33%).

The size of these loans moves daily based on the market value of the underlying assets, but can be approximated with a fixed %. E.g. if I have 1M$ in low risk/volatility assets, IBKR might allow me to withdraw up to 50% of that (500k$).

A lot of wealthy folks use these sort of margin accounts as checking accounts, in lieu of selling their investments, so that they never need to realize a capital gain on their investment (they just keep borrowing more and more as their investment grows).

Being able to model such an account would be very useful, as it can prove to be an invaluable tool. It acts sort of like a credit line with a variable interest rate and a variable maximum. The following features would suffice:

  • Be able to model benchmark interest rates (not currently available, but related to inflation).
  • Have a debt that has interest computed on a rate that moves with benchmark interest rates.
  • Have this debt be usable for withdrawals in cash-flow priorities.
  • Have the debt ceiling grow as a % of investments.

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Suggested 25 April 2022 by user Antoine Grondin

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  • 25 April 2022 Antoine Grondin suggested this task

  • 25 April 2022 Kyle Nolan approved this task

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    I’ll add to this rather than a seperate task, but it would be great to choose in loans as to whether you’re paying principal and interest, just interest, or a custom amount.

    26 April 2022
  • 29 April 2022
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    Also: this asset backed loan should somehow show up as an infusion of cash.

    Relevant example: - I buy a 100k house. - I get a 20k$ asset back loan. - I use the 20k$ as a downpayment for the house. - I get an 80k$ mortgage on the rest of the house.

    29 April 2022
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    +1, would really like this. Would also be cool if we could model paying down the margin loan with dividends either from the margined account, or another account.

    21 October 2022
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    It would also be useful to be able to mark interest as tax-exempt for things like margin loans or securities-backed lending used to fund businesses / investments.

    24 April