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Securities-Based Line of Credit: The Benefits of Using Your Investments as Collateral

Securities-Based Line of Credit: The Benefits of Using Your Investments as Collateral Are you looking for a flexible and potentially low-cost way to borrow money? A securities-based line of credit (SBLOC) may be a good option to consider. In this blog post, we’ll explain what securities-based lines of credit are and the benefits they offer. What is a Securities-Based Line of Credit? A securities-based line of credit is a loan

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Franchise Opportunities and the LeverageLine Network

Franchising Opportunities and the LeverageLine Network How can the LeverageLine Lending Network  help fund franchise opportunities?    When it comes to exploring your franchise opportunities you have many different sources, including brokers and direct franchise marketing departments, to choose from. If you have the cash it will not be hard to find a suitable franchise to purchase. But for many borrowers that is just the beginning of the financial odyssey that the

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The Cannabis Investor: When SBA Says No…We Say YES to Cannabis Stock Loans

Cannabis Investor? When SBA Says No, We Might Say Yes… The rise in cannabis stock investing has taken the U. S. market by storm recently. With medical and recreational cannabis use on the rise,  and the use of CBD derivatives increasingly popular in forms as diverse as hair treatment and skin creams, the industry is expected to continue rising in sales and investment in the next few years.  For individuals

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Not Your Grandfather’s Stock Loan

The A. B. Nicholas LeverageLine Network Experience We set out to ensure that our stock-portfolio-based credit line program bore no resemblance to the usurious high-interest skimply margin loans of yesteryear.  Margin loans are fine for convenience, but they only give you a loan-to-value (advance or release rate) of 50% of the value of your portfolio. Suppose you want a larger amount? If you get a margin loan from your brokerage

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Three New Cannabis Stocks Now Eligible for Loans/Credit Lines

A. B. Nicholas announces ability to provide stock loan against (leverage) several leading cannabis stocks via network.    As of October, 2021, A. B. Nicholas is happy to be one of the few companies able to deliver credit lines and loans against several high-performing cannabis stocks with sufficient trading history. These can receive a loan-to-value offer as high as 70% depending on volatility, size of portfolio and volume of trading.  Our

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Where There’s a Will, There’s a Way: The LeverageLine Stock Loan Advantage

Here at A. B. Nicholas, we’re ready for anything.  Even the client who comes to us with bankruptcies, foreclosures, or credit issues from the past. That’s because of the type of licensed, major-institution stock loan lenders that we have in the network we have built over a decade.  When a client brings in a case with a portfolio of, say, $100,000, but has had a recent foreclosure that prevents him

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Let Us Refer You for Your Next Stock-Secured Portfolio Loan

You may think that your online stock brokerage is a wonderful, convenient place from which to get a margin loan. You’re right. It is convenient. But did you know you are almost certainly getting far less cash and paying out a very large amount in interest? On top of that, your brokerage will bring the ‘axe down’ and issue an immediate, discussion margin call the minute your portfolio falls in

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Get a LeverageLine Before Years End and Have Your Cash by Christmas!

Get THE best securities-based credit line program in the country and have your cash before CHRISTMAS if you act now.  Our stock loan rates remain THE best in the market. Our loan-to-value is also the highest in the financial industry, based on competing offers for qualified portfolios.  Learn. more about LeverageLine from A. B. Nicholas here. And apply for free securely via our one-page online application form today to have

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Be Your Own Banker

Would you like to say goodbye to your banker?  Let’s say you are a real estate investor. You know your business. You know a good home, business, or commercial site from a bad one. You know how to invest.  That part’s easy for you, in this scenario. But at the end of the day, you end up in Red-Tape & Delay Land.  That’s right: Your bank. That’s where you’ll meet the guy

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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

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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

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