I’ve often heard people say it is easy to overcome the low car loan interest rates. While it may be 1.88%, the effective interest rate is much higher than that, about 4%.
And people will tell me that it is easy to find something with an interest yield of 4%.
I tell them their maths fail. Why?
Disregarding all risks and investment yield fluctuations, simple arithmetic says that one must invest the same amount over the same period of time as the loan quantum to yield the same returns.
This means if you took a $100K loan for 8 years, you need to plonk $100K into an investment yielding the same interest rates for 8 years.