magneetje schreef op zondag 30 augustus 2020 @ 14:14:
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Daar heb je een goed punt. Ik belegde eerst bij de Giro en was best geschrokken van de risico's die ik daar had gelopen.
Wellicht ben ik nu iets doorgeschoten in het uitsluiten van alle mogelijke doemscenario's.
Als ik het goed begrijp zijn er de volgende scenario's mogelijk.
1. De broker Lynx gaat failliet, dan zijn mijn assets veilig want die staan bij IB LCC (bij effecten van de NASDAQ, AEX en alle andere opties (met uitzondering van niet-Amerikaanse indexopties)
2. IB LCC gaat failliet en er is een juiste vermogenscheiding uitgevoerd. Dan zijn ook mijn assets veilig.
3. IB LCC gaat failliet en er is geen juiste vermogenscheiding toepast. Op dat moment wordt de SIPC aangesproken om de ontbrekende assets te vergoeden.
Precies, daarom is het SIPC wat mij betreft een degelijke dekking. Bovendien hebben vrijwel alle US brokers
additionele dekking via Lloyd's, zie bijv ook deze uitleg:
How SIPC insurance works in the real world
Let’s say you have $10,000,000 in assets that are eligible for SIPC insurance (stocks, bonds, etc.) in your brokerage account. Your broker hits a rough patch because it made a few bad billion-dollar trades with some clients’ money it improperly comingled with some of its own money. The SEC, FINRA, and SIPC step in, and the liquidation process begins.
In an extraordinary case where the SIPC has to step in to protect investors in liquidation, only 95% of client assets may be immediately recoverable. Thus, the recoveries would afford a $9.5 million payout to the investor. The SIPC would chip in another $500,000, the max of its limit, to cover the investor’s $500,000 loss. In this case, the investor who had a $10 million brokerage account would have lost nothing, receiving $9.5 million from recoveries from the brokerage liquidation, and $500,000 from the SIPC to cover the shortfall.
But let’s suppose the investor had only received $9 million from the liquidation of assets and $500,000 from the SIPC. Would they have simply lost the remaining $500,000 not covered by recoveries and SIPC insurance as a result of their broker’s bad behavior? Likely not.
In fact, most brokers have protection known as “excess of SIPC insurance” which covers losses over and beyond SIPC limits. At TD Ameritrade, for example, clients have up to $151.5 million of protection in excess of SIPC limits, up to $500 million for all TD Ameritrade account holders. Ally Invest clients have up to $37.5 million of protection in excess of SIPC limits, up to $150 million for all of its customers. I could go on and on, but most brokers buy this excess insurance as an inexpensive way to give their clients peace of mind for a worst case scenario.
Of course, to get to the point where losses eat through the broker’s required regulatory capital and SIPC limits, things would have to go very, very wrong. For losses to then consume all of a broker’s excess of SIPC insurance… well, things would have to go almost impossibly wrong.
To put things in perspective, the SIPC wrote in a recent annual report that of 767,300 claims since inception, only 356 were for amounts in excess of its protection limits. In other words, only about 5 in 10,000 customers who actually had to make a claim (which is itself a very small percentage of the total investing population) had losses in excess of what the SIPC covers. Lloyd’s of London, which is the insurer behind most excess of SIPC policies, likely doesn’t have to pay out on many claims.
The short story is this: There are many ways to lose money as an investor -- betting on stocks you learn about at cocktail parties, buying stocks that are pitched to you in spam emails, and so on -- the risk of loss due to a brokerage bankruptcy is so low it almost rounds to zero.
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