Amortization Case Study

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1. -The difference is the amortization pattern associated with each loan type.
-Advantages to the borrower can be they could possibly save money by paying interest only or set up cases where there is negative amortization.
-Advantages to the lender is possible flexibility to earn a large amount of total interest owed in the early years of the loan’s lifetime.
-They are both available to customers and widely used in daily scenarios with regular people.

2. Amortization is the process of loan repayment over a period of time. It means that the payment against the loan is made by means of installment which will have the interest and principal components. This type of arrangement is done mostly in real estate financing business.
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The accrual rate is usually the nominal rate divided by the number of periods within a year that will be used to calculate interest. For example, if interest is to be accrued monthly, the nominal rate is divided by 12; if daily, the nominal rate is divided by 365. The payment rate, or “pay rate”, is the % of the loan to be paid at time intervals specified in the loan agreement. This rate is used to calculate payments which are usually made monthly (but could be quarterly, semi-annual, etc.) If the pay rate exceeds the accrual rate, this indicates that some loan repayment (amortization) is occurring. When it is equal to the accrual rate, amortization is not occurring, …show more content…

In general, the nominal interest rates for a specified period (say 10 years) is said to be a composite of three things; (a) real return-such as the growth rate in real GDP (underlying economic growth in the economy, (b) expected inflation , and (c) premium for risk. For example, if a lender quotes a 6% rate on a mortgage loan at a time when 10 year U.S. government bonds are yielding 3.6%, then the risk premium would be 2.4%. If at that same time growth in real GDP is 2.0% and is expected to continue at that rate for 10 years, then expected inflation can be estimated to be 1.6% (or 6%-2.4%-2.0% = 1.6%). Alternatively, if 10 year U.S. Government Bonds that are indexed for inflation (TIPs) are currently yielding 2.0% and 10 year Treasuries not indexed for inflation are yielding 3.6%, the difference, or 3.6%-2.0%, or 1.6% is an estimate of expected

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