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Shorts too far on this! Too early for accurate short data. $CWD is Starting to Bounce from Extreme Oversold Zone!
Back to the NAZ! $CWD is Starting to Bounce from Extreme Oversold Zone!
I have some money I'd like to put in HYSA, but I have some questions.
How are your deposits and investments protected if your bank bankrupts?
How are your deposits and investments protected if your bank bankrupts?
ELI5: How are Government money markets held primarily in agencies and repo agreements not the absolute safest places to store money, even above FDIC or SIPC?
SIPC limitations for currency held on a brokerage account
Are ETFs protected by SIPC? I didn't see ETFs in the list of securities protected by SIPC at https://www.sipc.org
What investor protections exist for the cash that is held for cash secured puts?
Are money market funds like VUSXX considered a security? Do you still own the security if the firm fails?
As an individual investor, what risk do I have if my broker goes under?
For Those Over FDIC (or SIPC) Limits, What's Your Strategy?
SIPC insurance: Is it meaningless if a brokerage goes bankrupt?
Silicon Valley Bank $SIVB Collapse Explained Like I'm 5:
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NO SIPC INSURANCE on Lent out shares during a Bank Run. It is YOUR Responsibility to make sure it is turned off. Here is how.
Is it safe to leave a large amount of money in fidelity?
eToro vs Revolut: Which Platform Is Better For Trading and Investing
"Fully Paid Securities Lending" rates and general opinions on programme
SIPC Coverage / Splitting Money Across Multiple Financial Servcies Companies
Question about SIPC insurance, "Customer Name Securities" in terms of brokered cds.
public.com offering up to $10k for transferring stocks?
Claiming your stocks via SIPC when your broker goes bankrupt
Do any of you keep amounts above FDIC/SIPC limits in your accounts?
Hey, Working stiff here.🙋♂️ I have an important question for those who know more than me.
Fidelity representatives are trying to help buy their technical issue is putting me at risk of margin call. Fidelity also removed my post
What happens if Webull vanquishes due to liquidity issues
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If you have more money in the account than is protected by SIPC you REALLY don't have to care about PDT.
In the event of broker failure, you're covered by SIPC insurance for 250k in cash and 250k in securities. (sometimes FDIC too depending on your positions)
>I heard from someone who worked at WF 5 years ago that the brokerage side (WF Advisors) is not part of the bank. Not sure if that’s good or bad—good as the brokerage itself had no scandal, but does it still get the benefit from the financial stability of the bank side just because it’s an affiliate? Yeah, legally bank and brokerage always operate under separate entities. I wouldn't worry about WF or its brokerage side going under as there's protection in place for that (FDIC for bank accounts and SIPC for brokerage). And, of course, the "big boys" of either world would be happy to scoop in and save a failing institution to increase their customer base (JP Morgan bailing out First Republic Bank earlier this year, as one example). And should either REALLY fail, well, then I think we have much bigger issues to worry about at that point. >As long as they don’t do funny things with clients’ money, making me not able to access it or lose it altogether, I think I’ll be good. At the end of the day, the question of who’s bad seems to be all relative (people say Fidelity is far better than WF, yet they make Fidelity the bad guy when compared to Vanguard). Agreed. Just be watchful of your own accounts, which, honestly, EVERYONE should be, regardless of their financial institution of choice.
Well, that’s what I initially thought. But as I wrote in the post, when SVB went bankrupt, people started questioning what would happen to their securities if Fidelity, Vanguard, Charles Schwab, etc. went down. So Fidelity posted on their subreddit about their SIPC coverage. And according to Google, brokerage’s stability does matter, and that’s where SIPC comes into play.
Literally look up when SIPC kicks in “In the event your broker or robo-advisor financially fails and investors' assets are missing or at risk, the SIPC will step in to make you whole by providing up to $500,000 in coverage.” https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/sipc-insurance-what-it-does-and-does-not-protect#:~:text=SIPC%20insurance%20rules&text=In%20the%20event%20your%20broker,does%20and%20doesn't%20cover. And there website specifically says so aswell. https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects Do you like being wrong for fun or something? Firm liquidation is listed as a reason, AKA financially failing or when the broker “fails”.
Assets are held in street name for the client, not held in the accounts of the firm. SIPC comes into play due to fraud situations where assets are misappropriated/lost/mishandled, not when a broker fails. They already have those safeguards in place.
https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects#:~:text=SIPC%20protects%20against%20the%20loss,a%20%24250%2C000%20limit%20for%20cash.
Do you know what SIPC covers?
SIPC insured like every other broker. It’s totally fine. I credit Robinhood’s ease of use for getting me into investing in College.
I’d prefer a MMF over a short dated ETF for a few reasons. First, less volatility. I’ll preface stating that I retired a few years ago but traded in the money market space for a couple decades. Just looked at SGOV’s price action and I don’t understand stand why it looks like a saw blade (spikes up and down). I’m sure if I dig into it further it’s likely a mark-market valuation that is influenced by the tightenings but compared to a MMF, which has a steady incline versus the more volatile ETF pricing. (I’ll bet they end in the same place, but would suck if you had to sell for some reason on one of those down days. Second, I’d choose a MMF that is eligible for the Fed’s RRP facility. Just a couple months ago, that yielded as high or higher than 1&2 mo bills. Since the Fed has continued to keep the RRP award rate above the Fed Funds rate (it’s usually 5bps below) it seems like a great safety valve which an ETF won’t have. If the short curve (1-3months) goes inverted again, the MMF can divert funds into the RRP and lock in a return above the FFR. Finally, there is a ton more of regulation and oversight on a MMF versus an ETF. MMFs are covered by the SIPC, I don’t believe ETFs are. As for whether the short term outlook looks better for a short maturity investment (a MMF or the aforementioned ETF) versus something further out the curve, that’s really up to you. The curve is inverted, which means there is a ton of money betting on/expecting the Fed to cut rates. This has change a bit in the last two weeks. 2yrs yielded 4% to weeks ago and have backed up to 4.57. So the market is moving towards the Fed not easing soon but 4.57% is well below FFR which is 5%. Point being, if the Fed does ease or signals they may ease soon, then a longer maturity fund is the better place to be. If you don’t think that is the case, the shorter maturity gives you less risk, higher yield (for now), and an easier and more liquid option if you choose to suddenly change your mind.
In addition to you removing the risk of a MMF breaking the buck, uninvested capital sitting in your brokages is SIPC protected up to $500K.
SIPC protects you if Schwab was committing fraud and didn’t actually buy the stock for you that you ordered. If Schwab goes belly up, your investments would just move to a new custodian .
Why not just do cash sweeps through Robinhood? Robinhood has SIPC and the Baja they sweep the money to have FDIC insurance
SIPC protects your money in case say... Schwab goes bankrupt. But if the commercial paper backing SWVXX goes worthless / defaults, you lose your money. This is in contrast to FDIC insurance, where if the mortgages/Treasuries backing an FDIC-insured bank (say SIVB) lose 20% in value over a year, FDIC backstops the bank and makes depositors whole.
[https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects](https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects) >SIPC protects against the loss of cash and securities – such as stocks and bonds – held by a customer at a financially-troubled SIPC-member brokerage firm. The limit of SIPC protection is $500,000, which includes a $250,000 limit for cash.
It depends on where your cash is parked at a brokerage. Cash deposits in a brokerage account is protected by SIPC. Cash deposits in a depository is protected by either FDIC or NCUA depending on the type of depository. At Fidelity - you have an option to have your uninvested cash swept into either a depository or a core brokerage cash position. FDIC and NCUA protects against the failure of the depository - so if the depository becomes insolvent, your broker would be able to recover the funds. If a broker with a bank sweep becomes insolvent - you cash deposits are still at a depository. With SIPC - because the cash deposits are normally in a separate omnibus account - SIPC will assure the recovery of cash deposits. If there is fraud by the broker, SIPC insure the cash up to the SIPC limits. Many brokers carry excess of SIPC insurance to make sure that higher value accounts are protected. Investments at a brokerage are normally held in the broker's street name at the transfer agent so if there is fraud by the broker - SIPC would cover that up to their limits. The amounts for Fidelity are in the link provided by u/GaylrdFocker
I linked the actual reason in another comment. There’s a Financial Times article about it. I’m not saying they’re totally impartial, but my understanding is they decided it didn’t meet the criteria for a payout based on the actual contracts of the CDS. The swaps stipulated they would pay out in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy and wouldn’t pay out in the case of government seizure which is what happened. If you had money in a money market fund that broke the buck and never recovered, you wouldn’t be covered by FDIC or SIPC if the brokerage didn’t go completely under. Is that fair? I guess? Maybe not? I don’t know. Where does personal responsibility on calculated risks end and it becomes something else? I’m not sure that’s a question that can be answered in a Reddit thread. But most people still see that as a remote risk so they park their money there. Is it the broker’s fault, the investors, or the government’s if the fund never recovers? It’s essentially the same with these swaps. If they’d agreed to a pay out there’d be posts about crony capitalism etc. But since they actually followed the wording of the contracts they’re foxes in the hen house? 🤷♂️
Question- is there a way to increase the amount of SIPC insured cash in a brokerage account? As I understand, you’re insured 250k in cash. Can this be increased? Or another question- if it’s not increased, can you just open another brokerage to get insured on another 250k, or does that 250k include all brokerages?
I think SIPC insures stocks.
There is an agency that protects against your broker going insolvent, SIPC.
Money market funds are heavily regulated and are 'protected' by SIPC up to 500k.' The risk is from 'breaking the buck' where NAV drops below par $1 - $1 --> its only happened twice, 2008 and another time a small reserve fund. Would be really interested to have someoen with deep knowledge on this dive into it
https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects SIPC covers a broker dissolving, but I 100% guarantee you Schwab is not failing.
Personal financial advisers suck. My gf uses one. The adviser gets $5 per transaction whether the transaction makes money or not. Her portfolio gets churned constantly with funds I never heard of a lot. Last year she had a net loss of $5K. She is starting to see the light. I definitely do not want to manage her money because bad trades could ruin our relationship. I thought the SIPC was to protect investors from such behavior.
Schwab is completely safe to trade on. Your holdings are covered by SIPC there, up to $500k. The only aspect of Schwab that anyone could argue is "not safe" right now would be holding Schwab's equity, $SCHW.
From the FDIC info site: "There are a number of non-deposit investment products that are not insured by the FDIC, even if they were purchased from an insured bank. These include: Stock investments Bond investments Mutual funds Crypto Assets Life insurance policies Annuities Municipal securities Safe deposit boxes or their contents U.S. Treasury bills, bonds or notes" SIPC would be the insuring body for the situation you describe.
The SIPC guarantees are just for the US. In the UK, I know there are similar laws in place that protect brokerage accounts (in that investors are protected by law and generally will have their assets transferred to another firm), along with the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS) to make up any difference/loss during transition up to £85,000. I know nothing about the protections for other brokerages internationally, though.
https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/bankruptcy/bankruptcy-basics/securities-investor-protection-act-sipa#:~:text=Overview,the%20failed%20firm%20is%20liquidated. The SIPC will arrange the transfer of the failed brokerage's accounts to a different securities brokerage firm. In the event that isn't possible for whatever reason, the SIPC will send investors either certificates for the stock that was lost or a check for the market value of the shares.
or no FDIC if it collapses before your funds reach the partner bank well maybe you get SIPC. who knows
Splash page of wealth front fine print > Cash Account is offered by Wealthfront Brokerage LLC (“Wealthfront Brokerage”), a Member of FINRA / SIPC. Neither Wealthfront Brokerage nor any of its affiliates are a bank, and Cash Account is not a checking or savings account. We convey funds to partner banks who accept and maintain deposits, provide the interest rate, and provide FDIC insurance. Investment management and advisory services--which are not FDIC insured--are provided by Wealthfront Advisers LLC (“Wealthfront Advisers”), an SEC-registered investment adviser, and financial planning tools are provided by Wealthfront Software LLC (“Wealthfront Software”).
1. It’s SIPC 2. It’s 250k Assets and 250k cash per person.
1. It’s SIPC 2. It’s 250k Assets and 250k cash per person.
Brokerage products aren't protected by FDIC. SIPC only protects you from fraud or misuse. Not collapse due to the recession/bad investments/brokerage losing control.
Brokerage products aren't protected by FDIC. SIPC only protects you from fraud or misuse. Not collapse due to the recession/bad investments/brokerage losing control.
The system is flawed, not broken. No one is going to lose a single dollar at a bank or a single publicly traded equity. Your brokerage holdings will be fine, and your money will be fine. Regardless the limit of SIPC, FDIC, and NCUA, no one is going to lose anything. You can fall for all fear mongering screaming crisis. Fear. Sell. End of the world. Or simply realize how moronic it sounds that the government isn’t going to backstop all deposits.
I've been losing money on purpose so my account can stay under the $500k SIPC limit just in case Schwab dumps. this is basically 11D Chess
Assets in your brokerage account are protected up to $500,000 per investor, including **a maximum of $250,000 in cash**, by Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), in the event a SIPC-member brokerage fails. https://www.schwab.com/learn/story/where-should-you-hold-your-cash
If it has anything to do with the brokerage side of the house, it's covered by SIPC.
Bank money market accounts are insured by FDIC. Money market mutual funds are not. They are protected by FINRA and SIPC, but that is not quite the same as FDIC insurance.
Banks do not have SIPC and anybody getting paid out by it has an equal loss, there is no tax.
I see thanks for the clarificaiton. >Assets swept to Vanguard Federal Money Market Fund are held by VBS, a division of Vanguard Marketing Corporation, member FINRA and SIPC. These assets are not covered by FDIC insurance. https://investor.vanguard.com/investment-products/cash-investments
as stated above.. in most cases of failure - the stock is still there and that asset is transfered to some other institution who the Federal officials (SIPC) assigns to take-over. if there's actual fraud and there ain't no money there where there should be money there. **After an accounting.**. you'll get a payment from the SIPC.
Thanks for that insight! I'm really asking about that last situation where the 1000 shares of msft cannot be recovered due to fraudulent activity or whatever else. Sounds like you're saying the SIPC would re-buy new shares and issue them to a new brokerage avoiding any capital gains tax
SIPC doesnt' have anything to do with bank failures. Your brokerage account is in a broker, not a bank.
Well banks do not hold stock, brokerages do. Also if that bank had a brokerage attached it would be separated . Also if a brokerage fails that doesn't mean assets just go missing. Assets go missing when your brokerage does something fraudulent , if your brokerage just fails because they are bad at being a brokerage and goes bust , as long as they were not doing anything illegal or committing fraud your assets won't go missing However SIPC seeks to recover assets . If you had 1000 shares of MSFT sitting in your brokerage and your brokerage commits some sort of fraud and those 1000 shares go missing I believe the insurance would kick in and you would get your 1000 shares back, it wouldn't really be a liquidation unless you sold
You’re SIPC insured for 500k. If you’re over the cap, I’m 100% sure the government in conjunction with the treasury would make some sort of adjustment to ensure people don’t withdraw their money en masse from the system.
Hindsight 20/20. It was free, SIPC insured. OP did his due diligence back then. Why is everyone shitting on him after the fact?
luckily Biden has nothing to do that, not sure why hes mentiond here The Treasury, The Fed, FDIC, SIPC have nothing to do with the President, and the decision whether to bail out a bank or not, is made well before the WH
Those are insured by SIPC https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/investor-faqs#:~:text=What%20about%20my%20401(k,eligible%20for%20protection%20by%20SIPC.
SIPC insures up to $500k in case the broker goes bankrupt
If you are really worried you could always go with Treasury Direct and buy TBills as this is controlled entirely by the government so no real risk of failing unless there is a national default. Chase should be relatively safe. Anything that is invested (MMF or TBills) at a big investment firm should be safe given how SIPC is set up. They come in and cover up to 500k (250k cash) after the distribution of the assets to the clients so in reality you will almost always get more the. Then the 500K that it is insured up to.
Not quite. SIPC basically covers securities in the event of mishandling by your B/D. So if they stole your sticks or over hypothecated or something DIPC would step in. It’s a very rare scenario and pretty much impossible in modern large brokerage firms given the regulatory oversight
Hey so I'm highly regarded at first republic and my retirement is there. Should I be Gucci with SIPC
Your money is backed by SIPC up to $500,000 in a MMF at a brokerage account like Fidelity or Schwab/TD Ameritrade. The MMF itself is not guaranteed as explained in the fine print, but is at zero effective risk of loss of capital due to the nature of the securities it is investing in, especially with the lower yielding funds in 100% US treasuries. The $500,000 applies to the account itself in the unlikely event that Fidelity or Schwab itself fails and goes into liquidation. The guarantee does limit "cash" to $250,000. However, placing your funds in a MMF makes your money subject to the $500,000 limit not the $250,000 limit.
To further clarify, if that brokerage goes down, other brokerages have fallen as well. That SIPC won’t cover Jack dick, they don’t have the funds to cover everyone’s accounts. You’ll all be left bagholding. Banking on insolvent insurance companies backed by a FED that’s fucked you at every chance it ever could makes y’all feel safe lmao.
SIPC insures the liquid cash in your brokerage account Don't quote me on this because I am guessing
Ok Mr Smarty Pants, what's the SIPC? And don't say Google it because i don't have the fucking time or care.
I can’t believe people who don’t even know what the SIPC is are trading stocks un fucking real
I'm also on TDAmeritrade so I checked. We have something similar to FDIC called SIPC. It's not exclusive to TDA, I just checked because of the pressure Schwab was under.
To clarify for anyone who doesn't understand, SIPC covers the collapse of a brokerage and not the collapse of the crappy stocks you own.
With Government MMF's? Problem is many operating and Payroll accounts exceed FDIC/SIPC. Additionally, sweeps end up with multiple stress points because a lot use regional/smaller banks.
> The funding for the trustee and supporting staff to wind down the broker comes from the SIPC and the SIPC provides governance on the liquidation process. But I guess in this scenario, if I own 1 million dollars worth of stock (above the SIPC limit) and the brokerage kept track of everything correctly, I would keep my investments above the SIPC limit. Meaning the SIPC limit is to cover for other scenarios, right?
>I still own the stocks that I own, right? yes. >Does SIPC even need to get involved in that scenario? When a brokerage goes bankrupt, the bankruptcy court appoints a trustee to make customers whole and makes sure that accounts are tranferred, makes sure that records are in place, etc. etc. That activity is a specialty of various companies, consultants, lawyers, etc. The funding for the trustee and supporting staff to wind down the broker comes from the SIPC and the SIPC provides governance on the liquidation process.
But I guess my fundamental question is this: Is SIPC primarily to insure me against Fraud? Technically, even if my broker collapsed, as long as they didn't fraudulently keep track of my assets... I still own the stocks that I own, right? Does SIPC even need to get involved in that scenario?
It really depends on the broker. If an investor has a lot of cash, you may opt to use a broker's bank sweep program which sticks cash into multiple banks up to the FDIC 250k limit for example. Or invest in treasuries and/or bank products like CDs. Like you said - it's really about mismanagement and fraud. Many brokers also carry excess-of-sipc insurance. This private insurance that covers recovery and amounts in excess of SIPC limits. Most of the big brokers carry this sort of insurance. And realistically, when small brokers fail - the custodian may be an entirely different broker so it may not even matter. For example - when FTX failed in spectacular fashion - FTX US customers who invested in stocks meant that the stocks was in a regulated broker-dealer. And FTX's fraud never extended to the brokerage because of how brokers must be setup. With larger brokerage failures - for example - when Lehman failed - the capital markets businesses were acquired Barclays pretty fast. The investment bank wind down in contrast took over 10 years. And the case was only closed about 2 years ago. Large fraud cases like the Madoff fraud can also take decades to resolve - it is currently the only open SIPC case - here if you are curious - [https://www.sipc.org/cases-and-claims/open-cases/](https://www.sipc.org/cases-and-claims/open-cases/) \- this case has been going on for 15 years and I think the longest running SIPC case.
Interesting SIPC only limits up to 500k of your investment assets. Does that mean if you have more than that in investments you should start spreading out your SIPC risk to multiple Brokerages? Or is that usually not necessary since you still "own" the assets when a Brokerage fails, and its more of a protection against a Brokerage mismanaging your securities?
"SIPC protects cash held by the broker for customers in connection with the customers’ purchase or sale of securities whether the cash is in U.S. dollars or denominated in non-U.S. dollar currency." - [https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects](https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects)
>Hi. I've just read on the SIPC website that they actually do not include currency held on the account in their coverage. Where did you read that? It might have been in reference to currency trading if the value of your currency goes down or something. SIPC covers missing assets so if you have 100 GBP or something SIPC will make sure you still have 100 GBP , if GPB goes down in value that is not covered You can read it here https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects
All of your investment money including margin is covered by a SIPC backstop. Can't lose.
I'm not sure that the depositors were putting their money into accounts that would be covered by the FDIC in the US. Maybe SIPC. The depositors were chasing high yield.
SIPC insures you if your brokerage firm fails. It doesn’t insure you if the MMF loses its $1 peg in the case of a run.
Sure let's pretend the SIPC doesn't exist...
A MMF often has higher rates than a HYSA. You are insured by SIPC against the bank collapsing, you are not insured against it losing value. But it took the fall of Lehman Brothers to bring the Reserve Fund down 3%, so it's probably not going to lose value.
There is a connection with the government, but it's nothing like the FDIC connection. The FDIC is officially part of the government. With large handwaving caveats: The US forced SIPC to exist, to fix the brokerage messes and then left it to manage itself. Large investment firms serve on the [board of directors](https://www.sipc.org/about-sipc/leadership/). I'm not saying or trying to imply in any way that the SIPC is corrupt or terrible or not doing its job. As far as I know they are doing just fine, but they are pretty well integrated into the industry they insure, much different than the FDIC or NCUA government agencies.
SIPC is federally mandated insurance of securities.
SIPC is brokerages, FDIC is for banks and NCUAA is for credit unions. SIPC is not govt sponsored in any way, and is ran and managed by the brokerages themselves. Many of the larger brokerages buy insurance over and above SIPC.
They were SIPC insured, people are still recieving payouts from the liquidation and subaequent recovery.
Money market accounts are insured by FDIC. Cash at a brokerage account is insured by SIPC.
As others mentioned fraction shares are handled by your brokerage. If you use fidelity and buy .25 of MSFT; fidelity will go out and buy 1 share of MSFT and internally "assign" to you that you own .25% of it and will probably assign 0.75% to others . This is not really different however then how whole shares are kept. If you and me both have fidelity accounts and I buy 25 shares of MSFT and you buy 50 shares of MSFT fidelity will go out and buy 75 shares. Those 75 shares will be kept in fidelity's name but internally it will say (sirglass owns 25 of these shares and KSCHI3 owns 50 of these shares) A lot of meme stock investors like to push conspiracy theories around this fact but its just simpler to keep the shares in fidelity's name vs 5 million customer names. Anyway SIPC covers missing assets, if fidelity closed down and said it really didn't have MSFT shares to give me my 25 shares or your 75 shares SIPC would step in . Note this really only happens if the broker commits fraud, you shares cannot be used to settle any debts or something like that. I do not see why fractional shares would be treated different ; and I have seen no evidence that SIPC doesn't cover fractional shares (or that it does) https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects From reading this is seems like fractional shares should be covered
A brokerage omnibus account is a type pooled account managed by the broker. There would be sub-accounts that separate out each of the broker's customer's cash. I am guessing that it's probably the interest that Webull gets from their custodian on free cash that they are passing back to customers. Webull doesn't disclose if it's being invested in cash equivalences. The differences are: 1. Unlike a bank sweep - the customer assets are not protected by FDIC. 2. Unlike a money market sweep - the customer assets are not in a money market mutual fund where the fund has certain rules and regulations on how it's invested. 3. It is however - protected by SIPC as a cash asset up to 250k. It's not necessarily a bad thing - just not as common. For the majority of people - the nuances may not really matter unless you are interested in the details. If you are interested in the nuances - you should have been provided with access to your broker's disclosure statements when you opened the account - I found them here - [https://www.webull.com/policy](https://www.webull.com/policy)
Please read this about SIPC insurance. [https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects](https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects) Some brokers such as Interactive Brokers have additional insurance (they use Lloyd's of London). [https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/security-investor-protection.php](https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/security-investor-protection.php)
It does have SIPC insurance which covers up to 250k in cash
FDRXX is held almost entirely at the Fed at Fidelity. It's safer than any bank. You don't need FDIC insurance. It's all treasuries and the Reverse Repo facility. The SIPC insurance will cover any theft up to $500K. Which is what FDIC insurance is really for, not bank failures. If FDRXX depegs from a $1.00 that means that the Fed and Treasury have failed. There is literally no reason to use a bank as long as FDRXX can be used as a cash Management account and offers checking and bill pay. The only reason to use a bank at all at this point is for loans. FDRXX is over 4.5% interest. Bank deposits are liabilities on their balance sheets. So you deposit money with them and they treat that as a negative. MMF's, aka "shadow banks" simply buy debt with deposits, and pocket some of the interest. Some have higher yields because they buy corporate debt, which is riskier. Which sounds safer? Having your money loaded into custodial treasuries and parked at the NY Fed Repo facility or loaned to VC? It wasn't always this way though. There used to be a pretty big delineation between savings banks and investment banks. Now we basically have a few companies that offer actual safety with how your money is "vaulted."
SPAXX is not a FDIC insured position. However, All Fidelity brokerage accounts are covered by SIPC. SIPC insures up to $500,000 in securities, including a $250,000 limit for cash held in a brokerage account. If the US defaults, there will be a much larger fallout. Total economic collapse. You would have much larger issues than however much you had invested.
I’m getting 4% APY from my PNC savings account that has less than 10K in it. Also, money market funds are protected by the SIPC in the event of brokerage bankruptcy.
SIPC might be more politically correct ;->)
There are no MMF ETFs. They are mutual funds. MMFs are inherently stable in fund share price. They are managed and regulated to keep the share price at exactly $1 a share all of the time. That is not guaranteed, but deviating from $1 is extremely rare. VMFXX and VUSXX are good ones that hold federal government bonds and other fed obligations. Other brokers have their own. Most have higher management expense than the Vanguard ones. As mutual funds, you don't want to buy across brokers because there would be hefty mutual funds transaction fees. They are not FDIC insured. They are FINRA and SIPC insured against fraud by the fund sponsor. Since MMFs holding are short term they yield changes quickly with prevailing rates. When prevailing rates go down MMF yields will go down quickly. In early 2022 before the Fed started raising rates MMFs were yielding close to zero. MMFs set an interest rate daily. Your interest is accrued daily based on the the rate and how much money your have there for each day. The dividend is distributed monthly. You won't see the daily accrual, just the monthly distribution.
I’m literally an exec in the industry, I understand all this more than you can ever imagine. Securities are insured for up to $500,000 under SIPC, so unless you have more than that there are zero value to DRS. Even above that, the advantage is next to zero, due to how brokerage liabilities are handled during liquidation. On the negative, DRS involves slower transaction speed and higher costs. Doesn’t really matter much either way, it’s a mountain out a anthill thing. “GME has an impressive balance sheet”. Lmao, you have no idea how stocks are even valued. They are valued at the consensus expectations around the discounted future dividends. Or, more simply, the discounted value of the future profits they are expect to get, and distribute to shareholders. GME is insanely over valued. Short selling is a good thing and gets rid of bad companies quicker. The alternative is even larger bubbles than we saw in 2021. Think about this conceptually - if you are cash flow positive, there’s nothing short selling can do to you, you just use your cash flow to pay debts. Even if your cash flow negative, there’s countless firms that will give you debt, or buy additional equity offerings, if you are expected to a path to profitability. And you see this happen all the time - look at Amazon for example. Took 15 years to show profits, but they had a reasonable business model, so had no issues raising capital. And short sellers didn’t short them.
Its not just "on par," FDIC is funded by the government, and gov debt will almost certainly be paid before FDIC. And repos are fully collateralized by US gov securities. The risk of your broker being a scam is higher, but you are covered by SIPC then.
SIPC covers things like "oopsie the brokerage lost my holdings." If you read the prospectus of a money market fund, it explicitly says the value is not guaranteed.
SIPC insurance is my guess, not FDIC.
What’s the most a person should invest at a single brokerage taking SIPC, FDIC, security, and growth into account? For example, if someone has a million dollars invested in index funds, how many brokerages would it ideally be split into?
Money market funds are protected by the SIPC
Primerica have multiple subsidiary businesses like other large integrated financial services firms. Their main business is insurance. Brokerage services appear to be provided by a company called Primerica Brokerage Services . And the investment advisery services are provided by PFS Investments. Both brokers and investment advisers are regulated businesses. And accounts are protected by SIPC. See faq here - [https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/wiki/faq/#wiki\_what\_happens\_to\_my\_assets\_if\_my\_brokerage\_goes\_bankrupt.3F\_do\_i\_lose\_my\_portfolio.3F](https://www.reddit.com/r/investing/wiki/faq/#wiki_what_happens_to_my_assets_if_my_brokerage_goes_bankrupt.3F_do_i_lose_my_portfolio.3F) So from the perspective of what would happen to your account if Primerica Brokerage or PFS becomes insolvent - your funds would be protected. It sounds like you have a managed account service - so if you are asking if the advisory services provided by PFS in managing your account is good or not. I do not know because there are lots of factors and pros/cons of all advisers. If your friend is managing this for you - have you asked them?
You don't actually own any shares. Shares held by brokerages are held in "street name" (https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/185.asp). All (NYSE and NASDAQ) stocks are actually owned by an organization called Cede and Co (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cede_and_Company). You just have to trust in SIPC if in the States. (https://www.sipc.org/for-investors/what-sipc-protects). ETORO USA SECURITIES INC is a registered member covered by SIPC. Your mileage may vary and I'm net familiar with UK protections. But if you want to be safer, use a bigger broker (with $USD Trillions under management: i.e. Vanguard, Fidelity, Schwab, Morgan) For safest: direct register whole shares though the company's issuer (often a company like ComputerShare). This takes the shares out of street name and puts them in your name.
This is a decent article about them: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/fractional-shares/#:~:text=In%20a%203%3A2%20stock,for%20every%20three%20you%20own. Tl;dr Traditionally they're a result of DRIP (dividend reinvestment plans), stock splits / reverse splits and mergers. They are provided by certain companies and brokerages and cannot be bought and sold on the open market. Buying them directly is a relatively recent phenomenon. Here's Schwab's version of it for example: https://www.schwab.com/fractional-shares-stock-slices The bit about insurance was just based on some weasel words in Schwab's FAQ about SIPC coverage. I don't know if it's a realistic concern, liquidity is the much bigger issue.
no, if you are singaporean and you signed up your account post 2021, you get a SG IBKR account. LLC IBKR accounts are no longer offered to singaporeans. Only those that signed before 2021 get LLC and their associated benefits. But yes all who has an LLC account gets SIPC protection from the US feds
Thanks. If I understand correctly, all IBKR users “get” an LLC account and SIPC insurance, right? It is not limited to companies, but applies also to private users?
You have SIPC protection as long as you have an LLC IBKR account, you could also automate a portfolio report to be sent to your email, every week/day/month if you so wish and those documents have all your trade history as well, which I believe is sufficient evidence of ownership.
Good info thanks. I’m from Europe. Looking at sipc.org it shouldn’t matter: “There is no requirement that a customer reside in or be a citizen of the United States. A non-U.S. citizen with an account at a brokerage firm that is a member of SIPC is treated the same as a resident or citizen of the United States with an account at a SIPC member brokerage firm.” Additionally IBKR claims to have additional insurance up to 30mio on https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/security-investor-protection.php So safety on paper looks pretty good for IB. My question was more “old school boomer” thinking, I guess. Like holding something in my hand in case of an IT glitch or some kind of shady development, hack, anything out of the ordinary. Basically if number on screen dissapears, how can I even start a claim process, if I never receivead an official statement, and not a living soul knows what I bought in the past. Would transffering to your name be the only way to get some kind of statement of ownership? I assume you have to repeat the transffer back to sell it. Do you know of some easier way to get like a yearly summary report from IB officially stating current holdings?