You are correct. But your terms are off and that would create some confusion so I will address that.
1. Loan principal or
loan balance is the terms used to refer the balance that you owe the bank. In this case, you can pay this loan balance to settle the loan. For example, if you borrow RM200,000 with a tenure of 40 years @ 4.75%, after 5 years you decide to end the financing, your loan balance would be
RM190,549. Please refer to the amortization table below
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2. Now, if you were to refinance today, you bank will sell the RM200,000 certificate, take back whatever is due to them, which is the current
loan balance of RM190,549, and return whatever is left to you which is
RM9,451 credited into your savings/current account you have with the bank
3. Sure, when you refinance you would start this loan balance at RM200,000 but everything is done with good intentions. You would have RM200,000 ASB certificate to generate its own distribution, and an extra RM9,451 for further reinvestments.
4. The objective of ASBF is not to settle the loan account, but to generate as much distribution income by holding as much capital as possible - because the distribution is paid to you based on the capital that you hold. The more capital you hold, the more distribution you would earn
5. If you look at the amortization table above, you will find that as you pay your installments, you would be paying more principal and less interest. You are correct in that sense, I simply do not want you to mistake the
principal repayment for the loan principalindeed, point number 3 and 4 superseded the principal increment that we have lost due to restart a new fresh installment.. Thanks a lot for the explanation..