Planning tools · For advisors & their clients

Smith Manoeuvre

The honest version: it prices the fixed-rate premium you accept to run the structure, the credit line's tiered cost, and the taxes — then tells you the minimum return that breaks even, and what the client is actually ahead (or behind) at your assumptions.

✓ Verified math — the arithmetic on this page is proven against independent reference calculations; the proof is printed near the bottom.

Home value
$
Mortgage amount
$
Day-one investment draw$200,000

Fixed rate (the readvanceable chassis)
%
Variable rate given up elsewhere
%
Prime today (credit-line pricing)
%

Line prices at prime once mortgage + line total $500,000+; prime + 0.50% below that. Applied automatically month by month.

Marginal tax rate40%
Expected annual return6.0%
Horizon10 years
Net advantage vs the cheaper variable, after 10 years
$0
Break-even return at this horizon
To genuinely profit, the client needs

Advantage by year, at your expected return

Structuring the chassis, the sub-accounts, and the clean tracing — with your plan and the client's accountant in the loop — is this desk's work.

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Ramin Hallaji, Principal — licensed in British Columbia (BCFSA) and Alberta, Dominion Lending Centres Group · 778-879-6768 · ramin@privatewealthfinancing.ca

Illustration only — not investment or tax advice, and not an offer of financing. Models the desk's locked reference method: fixed-rate mortgage (semi-annual compounding) versus the cheaper variable given up, identical out-of-pocket on both sides; principal re-borrowed and invested monthly; credit-line interest capitalized, deductible, refunded annually at the marginal rate; tiered line pricing; 25-year amortization; deductibility requires clean tracing and income-producing investments (the client's accountant confirms). Returns are assumed constant and pre-tax on growth; markets vary and leverage magnifies losses as well as gains. Rate defaults are July 2026 desk figures — editable and perishable. Private Wealth Financing arranges mortgage financing only.