[quote=an][quote=Coronita]But where’s prevalent is it’s done by really rich people where their pledged asset is several orders of magnitude larger than the loan amount…For example, a Mark Zuckerberg borrowed $5.95 million on a 1.75% ARM loan from Morgan Stanley, which as you know is an investment bank. So it was probably some pledge asset arrangement. Morgan Stanley was also the company that was the underwriter for Facebook’s IPO.
He later refinanced it to 1.05% 30 year
ARM loan from a standard bank.
Wishful thinking as this would be wide driver of people forced to sell.[/quote]
Exactly, this is the vehicle for the wealth. Not for your average joe. It allow them to get access to liquity of their stock investment without having to sell it. It’s a win win scenario. Low risk for the lender (easy money).[/quote]
It’s goes well beyond the loan… Because of their large pledged assets, an investment bank is more than happy to given them a ridiculously low rate loan product that most normal people cannot get themselves…for the privilege of having a hand in those pledged assets, which the i-bank can do something with now…
