The Investment Scientist

Is Refinancing Right for You?

Do you see any evidence of superior investment strategy for the last five years? Seems all is correlated and all is going nowhere.

This is a question I got from a reader of my newsletter.

I hate to be impolite, but I think he is focusing on the wrong thing. Yes indeed, over the last five years, the market has given us one disappointment after another – first the financial crisis in the US and now Europe.

There is a silver lining in all of these crises, though. Mortgage rates are at an all-time low. Five years ago today, the 30-year mortgage rate was 6.75%; now it is 3.5%. If you have a $400k mortgage on your house, do you know how much you save if you refinance?

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