Again, time will tell on this, but I am cautiously optimistic that
the favorable loan to value ratios will protect the portfolio even when the real estate market turns south.
Time will tell on this, but I am cautiously optimistic that
the favorable loan to value ratios will protect the portfolio even when the real estate market turns south (which is guaranteed to happen at some point in the future).
Not exact matches
Another option is
to borrow from a local bank using your cash
value as collateral that might provide more
favorable terms on your
loan, increasing your potential for positive arbitrage.
In addition,
loans can be taken with minimal costs and no penalties at any time (in
favorable policies) AND regardless of
loans the policy will continue
to grow on the full cash
value in a properly structured self banking policy.
A substantial down payment makes your
loan -
to -
value ratio on the car more
favorable for the lender, and reduces the amount you need
to borrow.
However, this «non-forfeiture
value» of a life insurance policy has an important secondary benefit as well — it gives an insurance company the means
to provide policyowners a personal
loan at
favorable interest rates, because the cash
value provides collateral for the
loan.
One of the virtues of cash
value life insurance is that insurance companies are willing
to make
loans against the policy at relatively
favorable interest rates, because the insurance company knows that it can always foreclose on the policy (i.e., force its surrender) as collateral
to repay the
loan.
The fact that the life insurance company has possession and controls that policy cash
value allows the company
to be confident that it will be paid back, and as a result commonly offers life insurance policy
loans at a rather
favorable rate (at least compared
to unsecured personal
loan alternatives like borrowing from the bank, via a credit card, or through a peer -
to - peer
loan).
Agents get you
to think about retirement bucks and bucks
to borrow and infinite banking (which requires consistently large cash
value accumulation and
favorable loan structures) and suddenly you are not talking about life insurance, but a road paved with gold that you can buy at well below the market rate.
Many companies allow existing policyowners
to exchange their existing low
loan rate policies for new adjustable
loan rate policies with
favorable terms or conditions such as enhanced cash
value schedules, higher face amounts, a higher dividend classification, and lower than normal upfront exchange fees.
Borrowers seeking modest
loan -
to -
value loans were able
to find even more
favorable pricing with rates below 5 %.
While interest rates and
loan -
to -
value ratios are currently
favorable, there is a very real possibility that the real estate market could turn in a negative way, causing a wave of REO product
to come back
to the market.
However, a conservative shift among the debt community is aimed primarily at non-investment grade tenants, who have been forced
to accept finance terms at 70 %
to 75 %
loan -
to -
value vs. a more
favorable 90 %
loan -
to -
value ratio not so long ago.