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Special memorandum account (SMA) [1] is a margin credit account used for calculating US Regulation T requirements on brokerage accounts. In addition to Initial Margin and Maintenance Margin requirements, the SMA ledger is used to lock in unrealized gains that augment the client's buying power. According to Regulation T, Section 220.5: [2]
Its best-known function is the control of margin requirements for stocks bought on margin. The initial margin requirement for such margin stock purchases has been 50% [2] since 1974, [3] but Regulation T gives the Federal Reserve the authority to change this percentage. Raising the margin requirement ostensibly reduces risk in the financial ...
Portfolio margin usually results in significantly lower margin requirements on hedged positions than under traditional rules. While the margin requirements of Regulation T generally limit leverage on equity to 2, with portfolio margin, leverage of 6.67 or more is possible.
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