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Why Letting the Stock Brokerages Compete for Our Clients’ Stock Loans Produces a Better Stock Loan

Let’s say you own a multi-stock portfolio that includes some bonds and mutual funds, totalling about $100,000 in value. It’s not in an IRA, and the stocks are all solid, have been in the market for awhile, and come with prices of at least $5 a share. If so, you qualify for the A. B. Nicholas LeverageLine credit line program, which has no impact on our client’s credit records, as

April 30, 2020 4:29 PM

View Our New REITLINE Video Today

Add New PostOur REITLine loan program allows individuals with normally unsellable UPREIT securities to obtain cash via credit line against their portfolio. Previously, real estate investors who received payment for the sale of their property in UPREIT tax-deferred securities could not obtain cash from that sale unless they converted the UPREIT to a normal marketable REIT, a typically costly process in the sale automatically becomes taxable when this is done.With

November 13, 2020 5:40 PM

New, Super-Low Fixed Rates from A. B. Nicholas!

A. B. Nicholas is happy to announce new fixed rates for all stock loans for portfolios of at least $80,000 in initial value. With Loan-to-Value that is the best in the U. S. market (up to 97%) in a licensed, secure, institutional credit line, we now offer via our partner firms the lowest rates in the industry for fixed-rate stock loans. Our latest fixed-rate promotions. Starting today… 3 year fixed

October 23, 2020 12:22 PM

A. B. Nicholas now offers competitive bids from four major firms for all stock loan applicants.

A. B. Nicholas is happy to announce the additon of our fourth funding partner, E-Trade, as a bidder for our stock loan applicants via the ABN LeverageLine program. Now our clients with eligible portfolios (see our requirements here) may receive stock loan bids from up to four — soon to be five — major firms in a “let the stock loan lenders compete” process that can get ABN borrowers superior,

October 10, 2020 12:22 PM

Finance professionals: Join A.B. Nicholas as a referral agent for great paydays!

Join the leader in non-margin-loan lending and refer your clients into our A.B. Nicholas LeverageLine program, where licensed institutional brokerages & banks compete to deliver the lowest-rate, highest-LTV stock loan in the market today. FINRA-member licensed lenders. RTed A+ by the Better Business Bureau 2015- present. Apply today! Our average referral fee payout is $3,000 per referred and closed transaction (our closing rate: 95%). www.abnicholas.com/agents. .

August 20, 2020 11:29 AM

COVID or No COVID, A. B. Nicholas Securities Finance Provides a Stock Loan Service That Can’t be Beat

When it comes to obtaining a loan against your stock, bond, or mutual fund portfolio, only one company has chosen to focus 100% of their attention on perfecting the best lending vehicle for investors on the market today: A. B. Nicholas, the securities-based business and personal finance people. Rated A+ by the BBB for 7 years straight, ABN offers a unique, specialized service that no investor seriously considering a loan

July 9, 2020 1:27 PM

Weekly Wednesday Noon (EDT) Informal Q& A Lunch Sessions for ABN Agents

A reminder to all registered/certified A. B. Nicholas Agents: we will begin weekly Wednesday conference call meetings at noon EDT every Wednesday with Wednesday, May 37 as outer first guest speaker session featuring a visit from one of our licensed lender advisors. bring your questions and ideas. Just call 339-207-7814 and you are in. No codes to punch. Note that sessions will be recorded and placed into your agent portal

May 24, 2020 11:11 AM

ABN Luncheon Wednesdays Noon – Guest Speakers

ABN LUNCHEONS CONTINUE An All-Hands Meeting for A. B. Nicholas Certified Agents. Wednesdays at Noon Same Dial-In Number Every Week) Dial In: (No code, direct): 339-207-7814 12PM Eastern Time Not a Certified Agent yet? Would you like to join A. B. Nicholas as a Certified Agent for serious referral fees? Please apply here. Every Wednesdays at noon (EDT) our A. B. Nicholas Agent Lunches will continue and will include guest

May 21, 2020 3:05 PM

Why Our LeverageLine Makes Money – Lots of It – for our Smartest Agents

There are certain attributes of the successful A. B. Nicholas referral agent that can be gleaned from over a decade of experience with over 3,000 agents here at ABN, some failures, some moderate successes, and some great successes with incomes in the six figure range. So what makes for the most successful of agents? Lets make this simple. Our successful agents all understand that despite being a heavily regulated securities-related

May 1, 2020 12:45 PM

COVID19 and LeverageLine

With so many of us having to adjust our routines these days, some may ask where our A. B. Nicholas LeverageLine stands. The answer? We’re open for business with no changes, as all of our work was always done online or over the phone, both for the clients and the lending institutions with which we’ve partnered. There is not change. But the time for our LeverageLine stock loan program could

April 20, 2020 2:16 PM

Coronavirus and LeverageLine “Insurance”

There Could be No Better Time for a Stock Loan than Now…. Apply Today for Free! What better insurance policy could you have than a credit line that costs you nothing until you use it, collateralized by your stock portfolio? Why not stay IN the market to enjoy the rise that will inevitably come from the end of the pandemic? Why pay capital gains taxes and be left behind when

April 7, 2020 9:42 AM

ABN Launches New One-Minute Introductory Video

February 23, 2020 9:38 PM

Build Your Business with LeverageLine

LeverageLine came to the rescue for Joseph Wesson III, owner of a lavendar farm in Howard Country, Maryland. Mr. Wesson’s farm could not get its produce to market in time; dried lavender had to get to the consumer quickly to retain all the characteristics that make it a health produce for millions. But without the right trucking services, the crop will be lost and unsellable. Wesson owned $1 million in

December 13, 2019 11:38 AM

LeverageLine Builds an Entrepreneur’s Dream…

Marcy Tyler saw her first cycling race when she was only eight years old. At the time, the speed, acquiline form, and power of the cyclists had impressed her like a tsunami. From that day on, she committed herself to becoming a cyclist. And so she was, through high school, and her junior year of college. She even won the Indianapolis Swift Racers cup at age 21. Her collection of

December 12, 2019 1:43 PM

Major Purchase or Credit Card Management Up Ahead?

Marjorie had decided to pay off her daughter’s mortgage as a sort of christening present on the birth of her first grandchild. The cost: $550,000. Marjorie’s assets: her husband had left her approximately $1M in stocks and bonds via his will; her $750,000 home, with $300,000 remaining on her own mortgage); her savings account ($45,000), and miscellaneous smaller accounts plus a parcel of undeveloped farmland in Utah. A. B. Nicholas

December 5, 2019 11:06 AM

LeverageLine Saves a Life….

Marsha Ames lived in Topeka Kansas with her family of six, a happy homemaker married to a steel shed company executive. Their lovely single family residence was on a corner of a street in suburban Topeka that could have been the setting for a Hallmark channel movie. Life was good; the future bright. Then she went to her doctor for a routine exam and they dianosed her with stage 3

November 25, 2019 11:43 AM

Have Us Speak to Your Salesforce about LeverageLine Credit Lines for Stock Portfolio Owners.

We offer what is arguably the best stock loan program in the U. S. market today, with the lowest rates and highest loan-to-value plus quickest delivery of funds in the nation for a 100% secure, licensed, FINRA-member-managed program. We are A. B. Nicholas, and securities finance is what we do and have done exclusively for over a decade. We have three major household-name licensed institutional brokerages who have agreed to

November 8, 2019 6:16 PM

Why an A. B. Nicholas Stock Loan and Not One from Your Current Brokerage?

When it comes to money, there is a reason why so many financial institutions have named themselves with words like “Trust”, “Fidelity” or “Assurance” for example. That’s because outside perhaps of the medical profession, nowhere else in human life is trust and confidence in the efficacy, honesty, and integrity of a company (or individual) more important. This applies to stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and so forth too. It is also

October 22, 2019 5:04 PM

A Stock Loan Against Your Cannabis Stock Portfolio? Yep, We Can…

If you have been an investor in one of the many cannabis-related stocks that have sprung up on the boards over the past several years, you’ve probably been stymied when it came to taking out a margin loan against them. Because of the still-existing federal treatment of marijuana as a drug, major banks and brokerages have been unwilling or unable to provide the normal lending facilities against these stocks that

October 17, 2019 2:00 PM

Financing College via a Stock Loan: (It’s Not What You Think…)

When it comes to college, just one child can cost a family nearly $200,000 at average college tuition rates. Yes, you read that right. This may not matter if you happen to be in a true upper income bracket. Perhaps you can handle it out of pocket. But even at a combined household income of $200,000 — average for 2-income U. S. families now — this is really still middle

October 11, 2019 1:37 PM

Finding the Perfect Client

One of the questions we get here at A. B. Nicholas is: How do we find the perfect client for the A. B. Nicholas LeverageLine stock portfolio loan program? On the one hand, the obstacles do exist. One of them is the face that many individuals with eligible stock portfolios choose to go solely to their existing financial advisors or brokerages for any leveraging of cash out of their portfolios,

September 19, 2019 11:42 AM

Be Your Own Banker

Would you like to say goodbye to your banker? You are a real estate investor. You know your business. You know a good home, business, or commercial site from a bad one. That part’s easy. But at the end of the day, you end up Red-Tape & Delay Land. That’s right: Your bank. That’s where you’ll meet the guy with the sparkling smile who’s actually scared too death of lending

September 18, 2019 8:47 AM

New, Easy Way to See if Your Stock Portfolio Qualifies for a LeverageLine Credit Line!

Want a very easy way to see if your portfolio qualifies for our LeverageLine stock portfolio loan program? Well here it is: just go to abnicholas.com/qualify for our new interactive Pre-Approval site. It’s never been easier to qualify and obtain your industry-leading LeverageLine credit line and the time is right for excellent rates well below market! We’re America’s Portfolio Lender; let us show you why. Get Pre-Approved in 30

September 9, 2019 4:35 PM

Financial Professionals:
Join A. B. Nicholas Today.

We are A. B. Nicholas Securities Finance provide gateways to institutional stock loan credit line programs using client stock, bond, mutual fund, and other securities portfolios as guarantee for a low-interest, high-LTV line of credit in an institutional, licensed environment without the need to transfer ownership to the lending party. Qualifying is easy. See our stock loan requirements here. The program is ideal for business and financial professionals who deal

September 4, 2019 11:37 AM

Nothing wrong with a margin loan… if you’re willing to settle for much less at a higher cost and risk.

Log into your brokerage account, hit a few buttons, and now you can buy 50% more of the same stock you think is going to go up and make you a tidy profit, using the brokerages money. Simple and sweet, no? Well, maybe simple. But sweet? We at A. B. Nicholas Securities Finance beg to differ. Your margin loan is based on that single stock. It goes down, you have

September 3, 2019 6:08 PM