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It depends on the holdings, not everything you can have in a bank account is FDIC insured. Update: By "everything" I mean not all kinds of financial instrument
by cmurf 9y ago
It depends on the holdings, not everything you can have in a bank account is FDIC insured.
Update: By "everything" I mean not all kinds of financial instruments are insured by the FDIC. They do not cover mutual funds, annuities, bonds, etc. They cover pretty much just cash and cash equivalents.
- ceejayoz 9y agoIt's fairly trivial to make sure everything's FDIC insured, and being wealthy enough to care about the per-account caps should mean you've got someone to advise you on doing so.
- osteele 9y agoIt doesn't even require a human advisor. Many banks participate in CDAR, which spreads large deposits across multiple accounts at other banks in the network. Fidelity isn't a bank, but their cash management feature includes checks, an ATM card, bill pay, and can send and receive ACH and wire transfers; they also implement this hack. None of this applies to securities. Presumably you could insure them. It's not obvious to me from first principles that the cost of insurance would wipe out any incremental appreciation value, but I've never heard of anyone doing this so probably it does.
- koolba 9y agoSecurities held at a broker are usually backed by SPIC protection.
- quickben 9y agoTrue. But for average people at popular banks, it's very sufficient.