I recently came across an interesting thread on a forum concerning the usage of student loans. These people had basically invented a fairly brilliant, if somewhat ethically-grey strategy for maximizing returns when they used a student loan to invest. These individuals (they obviously posted anonymously) were the product of “old money” and they were law students. They obviously thought about money and how to use it to their advantage, much differently than the majority of people. Their parents had retired from their main job before their kids went to school (not as uncommon as one might think given that affluent people tend to have children later in life, and retire much earlier), and consequently had to report little income on their student loan applications. In cases where their parents still earned a wage these future lawyers had waited until they were 21 and consequently considered independent entities as far as student loan programs were concerned. These circumstances allowed them to apply for and collect student loans when they really didn’t need the money. After all, they didn’t work while going to school because their parents paid for everything, so they had no income to report on their loan applications either. So with this fortunate combination they were able to receive large amounts of student loan money from both the provincial and federal governments. In addition to the loan amount, these people even got automatic grants because they were considered to be among the most “in-need.” Interest-Free Investment Loan Anyone? Now many people in their position would have taken the money and had a great time. Who couldn’t use a few thousand dollars worth of beer money in college right? Or possibly one could see themselves buying a nice vehicle of some kind with the money in order to really show off for the ladies/men on campus. Instead, what they did was invest the money. Their foolproof theory was that they would simply invest the money, which consisted of an interest-free loan and a non-repayable grant (essentially free money), and then pay the loan back when it came due a few months after they graduated. Using A Student Loan To Invest – How To Maximize The Strategy I’m not saying what they did is right from an ethical perspective, but from a purely financial point of view, this was a great idea. If the students wanted to be cautious, they could invest in GICs and bonds and earn a free 3% or so on the money for the years they were in school before paying it off when it came due; however, I of course would advocate for a different approach. With the markets in a fairly deep correction, I think there are substantial gains to be made over the next couple of decades in equities. I have published articles before on the stock market average returns over the years, and I believe they make a pretty convincing case that business will rebound as it always does after it shakes off the [...]
Using a Student Loan To Invest – Smart or Unethical?
Debt Consolidation
Much like my “Coffee-a-Day” article, no personal finance site would be complete without an article done on debt consolidation. The truth is that this relatively simple set of principles can save you a lot of money, especially when you are young and taking on a lot of debt to initially start up your life. Obviously the hope is that you never have any debt at all to worry about, but sadly this is not the case for the vast majority of people; therefore, it is useful to learn how this corporate-sounding term of, “debt consolidation” can actually be quite useful to people. The basic idea behind debt consolidation is to take all the debt that your paying high rates of interest on, and try to “move it” to a central debt loan or account with an advantageous interest rate. By combining many debts into one single account or loan, you are likely going to save yourself a lot of time and money. That is all is debt consolidation really is, taking all of your smaller debts (usually consumer credit like payment plans, or credit cards) and combining it all under one larger loan. A good example of this is using a service like moneysupermarket. Make It Easy On Yourself With Debt Consolidation We will get into the financial reasons for doing this in a minute, but the first nice outcome from combining your debts is that you will no longer have to deal with multiple creditors every month. For example, many people have to deal with 3 credit cards, a line of interest, a personal loan, and maybe an instalment payment plan for a specific item. When you consolidate your debt you can take out a central loan and pay off all of these little ones so you just have one account and one number to worry about paying down every month. This is a nice load off of people’s minds, and will likely result in a lot less late payments (consequently helping you pay off your debt faster, as opposed to sinking you further in). With Debt Consolidation You Can Pay Off Your Debt At Low Interest Rates The financial benefits are even more drastic. The most obvious cases where debt consolidation can help the most are for high-interest credit cards. Some credit cards out there are charging 29.9% interest on unpaid accounts! If your investments got that rate of return your principle would double every 27 months! Instead of paying the ungodly rates that of interest that credit cards charge, it is much smarter (and cheaper) to go down to your bank and see what options there are for consolidating your credit. If you have a house that you have paid off (or at least a large portion of it) the bank will likely allow you to take out a Home Equity Line Of Credit (HELOC). A HELOC is a loan that is backed by your house. This means that it is less risky for the bank because [...]
Pay Off the Student Loan or Invest For the Future?
In personal finance circles there is an age old debate whether paying down non-consumer debt such as your mortgage is preferable to investing for your retirement. For students, the principles of this debate extend to the student debt they take away from their post-secondary education. The common conclusion amongst most experts when they answer this question is that, “You should do whatever makes you sleep best at night,” in terms of managing your debt. I have a hard time with this non-committal answer. I know that it makes some degree of practical sense, but for me, what allows me to sleep easiest is making and saving the most money! Will Investing Make More Sense Than To Pay Off The Student Loan? What the argument boils down to is if you think your investments will make more money than the interest you are paying on your loans. This is why anyone who knows anything about money will tell you that the first step to getting on solid financial footing is to do away with consumer debt. Car loans and especially credit cards usually charge rates of interest that are a lot higher than other loans. Even on a 7-8% loan it is tough to say that your investments will absolutely beat this. When you repay debt that interest is considered automatic return! If you could guarantee people 8% investment returns automatically, the vast majority of investors would take that. Pay Off the Student Loan After The Credit Card Debt After taking the initial step of getting rid of all this credit card (certain store-specific cards even have rates as high as 29.99%) and other consumer debt the next steps become more debateable. In the article I wrote last week comparing someone graduating with debt to someone graduating debt-free, we looked at how student loan interest rates work. Canada Student Loans are given at the prime interest + 2.5% if you take a floating credit rate, but at prime + 5% if it is a set rate. Provincial student loans vary from province to province. Ontario student loans (OSAP) are the most common and they charge prime + 1%. The prime interest rates these days are at historical lows, but on average 4-4.5% is probably a safe bet. This means that you will be paying about 7% on your Federal loans, and 5.5% on your Provincial. At these rates I can see how some might want to pay these loans off, but it is important to realize that the interest you pay on student loans is tax deductible. This means that the effective rate would be about 1% lower than those above. So if the effective tax rates for Federal student loans is around 6% (over the life over your loan) and the Provincial loan around 4.5% then it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that anything above the minimum payments should go towards paying off the higher interest rate first. The real question is, if you have $500 left at [...]
Student Loans vs Debt Free – A Lifetime Comparison
For many people student loans are a fact of life. They always knew they would have to get them, and when they did it wasn’t a big deal. After graduation the loans were always there as they started their working life, so they probably never considered what the true cost of the loans was. In order to motivate people to save for their post-secondary education I thought it might help to examine how much it really costs to start off your working life climbing out of debt instead of building your wealth. When trying to calculate the real impact of what a student loan will cost you, we first need to look at the breakdown of where a student loan comes from. For most students 60% of their loan comes from Canada Student Loans and the other 40% comes from Provincial Student Loans. This is important because of the effective interest rates. For your national loans the government offers the choice of a fixed loan at 5% above prime (probably not a good option) or a ‘floating’ loan (this means it increases or decreases as the Bank of Canada’s lending rate goes up or down) at 2.5% above prime. Provincial loans are all unique. The most commonly discussed loan is from Ontario (OSAP) and it is for 1% above prime, while Manitoba’s by comparison was 2.5% above prime until 2009 where they decreased it to 1.5%. For simplicity in our calculations were going to assume an average prime interest rate of 4.5%. In today’s economic climate this would be considered a pretty high average, but in the 1980s it would have been considered ridiculously low. It is a conservative estimate. If we assume by combining our floating interest rate from our Federal loan (60%) and Provincial loan (40%) we will end up with an average of about prime + 2% and we can crunch some numbers. With these variables the average interest rate on the life of your student would be 6.5%. This doesn’t represent the true cost of the loan though because of the student loan tax credit that you could claim on your taxes. For people in the lower tax brackets this will usually be about 17%. This drops your effective interest rate to about 5.5% and this is what we will use for comparison purposes. From the various studies I found on the internet, the average university graduate is currently leaving school with about $23,000 in debt. Some estimates were higher than this, but I think it’s a decent comparison point. The length of the loan is obviously dependant on how quickly you wish to pay it off. I couldn’t find any info on the average amount of time graduates pay their loans off in, but most people are initially set up on 10 year plans. I think that this is another reasonable number to use for our little comparison. So let’s take a look at how much it will cost in total for a 23 year-old university [...]
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