Have Your Cake, Eat It Too, And End Up With Only Crumbs

January 8, 2015 by OSYB Staff

Margin loans are a means of borrowing against securities in a brokerage account.  Margin debt can either be for the purpose of buying more securities, or “non-purpose lending,” where the proceeds of the loan are used to buy assets outside of brokerage accounts, or goods, or services.  Read more here.