Capped Rate
A capped rate is well, just like it sounds...a rate that is capped. In home financing terms, it is an interest rate that has been capped at a certain percent and cannot ever go above that set mark.
Let's say you're buying your dream house for a cool $900,000 bucks. You're discussing the details of your forever loan with your mortgage guy and he's droning on with the boring details of origination fees, PMI, closing costs, and attorney's fees, but you're only thinking about the stupidly, ridiculous amount of time that you'll be paying on the loan and about how much it's really going to cost you in the long run.
He's getting to the part about a capped rate and never having to pay more than x%...which suddenly peaks your interest (sounds like you might be saving a little dough on this baby). He explains that the current variable rate on your mortgage is 3.5% but because it's variable, this can fluctuate with the market. However, the interest is capped at 6% which means your rate will never go above that. Sounds like a deal! Until he says that you were actually only approved for a $90,000 loan. Humph.
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Finance: What is a Wrap Account?31 Views
Finance allah shmoop what is a rap account Okay yeah
yeah inserted joke about eminem here a rap account with
a w wraps into one annual fee All of the
services you'd normally pay for ala carte at a given
brokerage that is a broker might charge you a one
percent rap account fee to manage all the assets you
have with her in return for things like quote no
fee unquote access to their proprietary mutual funds you get
toe by the mutual funds no load and the quotes
air there because there is a fee annually to manage
the fund But at least this way there is no
fee to buy into the fund or no load their
god it see how that works The rap account can
also include unlimited trading at quote no fee unquote as
well like quotes or there again because there's usually a
spread on each trade like you buy a twenty eight
dollars and twenty seven cents and you sell a twenty
eight dollars in nineteen cents So there's a seat since
spread they're they're still making money on each trade There
just isn't an incremental fee tacked on top of all
That so your broker khun get that second home in
the hamptons and that one percent feet Well that's based
on the total amount invested with the broker got it
So if you have a million dollars invested with them
it's ten grand a year for that rap account fi
system we'll wrap accounts often come with minimum investment levels
well above those of a mutual fund like twenty five
fifty grand or more But in having a one feet
covers all approach a broker is not incentivized to churn
the account or do really anything to generate commissions for
themselves because there ain't any The only thing they're incentivized
to dio is gather more of your assets or make
your assets be worth more so they can keep going
on the whole one percent dance Yeah the notion goes
in theory anyway that if the broker helps client invest
well over time the client will remain a loyal one
and stay with that broker for a very long high
margin to the brokers Time for many large brokerages rap
accounts allowed their clients to be able to buy various
flavors of funds mutual hedge or index at quote wholesale
Prices unquote That is if the fund is a captive
fund maintained by the brokerage The rap account allows the
client to buy with no commissioner upfront charges which is
kind of a nice nice deal for him Yeah quick
example If jay z gives his broker one hundred million
dollars under a rap account that charges one percent the
broker will charge a million bucks a year in return
for handling all of jay z's trading wiring and a
whole bunch of other services got it One percent on
the hundred million broker makes million bucks a year and
if jay z also has a rap account you know
with no w there Well there's always a chance Queen 00:02:45.555 --> [endTime] bee well pop in for a cameo
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