Homemade Leverage

Homemade Leverage

Homemade Leverage Definition

In finance, homemade leverage is a technique individual investors can use to synthetically adjust the leverage of a firm. To replicate the effects of leverage in the firm, the individual investor borrows money at the same borrowing rate as the company. They need to add leverage to their portfolio.
If an investor invests in an unleveraged firm, but would prefer that the firm use leverage, then the investor – as long as he can borrow at the same borrowing costs as the firm – can create the effects of leverage in the firm by adding leverage to his own portfolio. Essentially, the individual investor can invest in an unleveraged firm. But they synthetically replicate the returns of an investment in a leveraged version of that firm by borrowing on his own.

Using Homemade Leverage

However, using homemade leverage to replicate the returns of a levered firm with an investment in an unleveraged firm may not work so precisely. This is especially true when taxes are involved. Furthermore, substituting homemade leverage for corporate leverage in an individual investor’s portfolio will not reflect corporate leverage exactly.
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Homemade Leverage
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