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How Debt Recycling Can Work For You

14/7/2022

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What is debt recycling?

Debt recycling is a method used to pay off non-deductible debt such as your mortgage by using the equity you have built up in your home to invest in income producing assets such as shares and property. The way it works is that you take the income from your investments and direct it towards your home loan, increasing your repayments, meaning you will be paying your home loan down faster.

Whilst you are making extra payments on your home loan you are increasing the amount of equity in your home, giving you the ability to borrow more money and invest it again.

This means that you are shifting the non tax-deductible debt from your home loan to the investment loan which the interest payable is 100% tax deductible.

Utilising a strategy like debt recycling can help you build your wealth and repay your home loan faster, it does also amplifies the risks you may encounter in the face of a market turndown.

Making sure that a debt recycling strategy is right for you will depend on a number of different factors such as your risk tolerance, investment time frame as well as your short, medium and long term financial goals as you will be reducing your lending capabilities due to a decreased serviceability.

How it works

The best way to explain how debt recycling works is to use an example.

Let’s say your home is worth $1,000,000 and your remaining mortgage is $600,000.

You technically have $400,000 of equity you can borrow, but most lenders will only lend you 80% of the value of your home (a ratio known as the LVR), minus your mortgage otherwise lenders will charge you lenders mortgage insurance which will be counter productive.

Eighty per cent of $1,000,000 is $800,000. Take the $600,00 of your mortgage away from that, and you are left with usable equity of $200,000.

Next, you take out $200,000 of that equity as a tax-deductible investment loan and put it into income-earning assets such as shares, ETFs and mutual funds.

Over the next year, your investments increase in value by $16,000 and yield an income of $12,000.

You take that $12,000 of investment income and put it towards paying off your mortgage. Added to regular principal repayments on your mortgage totalling $14,000, you reduce your mortgage by $26,000 in the year.

This has now increased the equity in your home by $26,000 which gives you the ability to borrow again and invest it into more income-earning assets.

The process is then repeated until your mortgage is paid off.

Who can do it?

A debt recycling strategy is not for everyone as it is not accessible for everyone. There is some specific criteria which you need to mee to be eligible for this strategy.

These are:
  • Equity in your home. Without the equity in your home there will be nothing to borrow against.
  • Regular income. This is required as you will need to be able to service both the home loan and the investment loan.
  • Good risk appetite. With any investing strategy there are risks involved however with a debt recycling strategy these risks are amplified as you are borrowing to invest.
  • Long investment timeframe. At a minimum this strategy should not be shorter than seven years to be effective. This is due to market fluctuations and reducing investment risk by investing for a longer time frame.
Benefits & risks

The main benefits of a debt recycling strategy are:

  1. Paying off your home faster. This means that you will be decreasing the amount of interest payable over the life of the loan.
  2. Building more investment assets. Rather than waiting till the mortgage is paid off.
  3. Shifting non-deductible debt to deductible debt.  Personal debt such as home loans are not tax deductible however debt for investment purposes is.

The main risk of a debt recycling strategy are:
  1. The value of your investment falls. All investing involves a form of risk. However, investing using borrowed funds increases that risk. If your investment were to go to zero you will have nothing to show for it and still be left with the investment debt and your home loan.
  2. Interest rates my go up. Right now there is a lot of speculation about interest rates increasing and a lot of evidence that this will happen. Interest rates increasing means an increase in your repayments. If you do not have the income to cover the repayments you may need to sell the investment.

Still unsure about debt recycling and whether it is right for you?
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We have helped those just like you make the most of debt recycling to achieve their financial goals. First, we begin by assessing your particular financial situation and short, medium and long-term financial goals before helping you to decide whether debt recycling is the right strategy for you.

But before we can do any of that, we need to get to know you a little better.

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