FINE 445 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Effective Interest Rate, Annual Percentage Rate, Nominal Interest Rate
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Cam - constant amortization mortgage - payments on constant amortization mortgages are determined first by computing a constant amount of each monthly payment to be applied to principal. Interest is then computed on the monthly loan balance and added to the monthly amount of amortization to determine the total monthly payment. Cpm - constant payment mortgage - this payment pattern simply means that a level, or constant, monthly payment is calculated on an original loan amount at a fixed rate of interest for a given term. Cam - lenders recognized that in a growing economy, borrowers could partially repay the loan over time, as opposed to reducing the loan balance in fixed monthly amounts. Cpm - at the end of the term of the mortgage loan, the original loan amount or principal is completely repaid and the lender has earned a fixed rate of interest on the monthly loan balance. However the amount of amortization varies each month.