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The monthly weighted average Eleventh District has
been published by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco since August
1981. Currently more than one half of the
The Federal Home Loan Bank's 11th District is comprised of
saving institutions in Arizona, California and Nevada. Few people who use and follow the 11th District Cost of
Funds understand exactly how it is calculated, what it represents, how it
moves and what factors affect it. The predecessor to the 11th District Cost of Funds index was
the District semiannual weighted average cost of funds published for a six
month period ending in June and December. The San Francisco Bank was the
first Federal Home Loan Bank to publish a monthly cost of funds
index. The funds used as a basis for the calculation of the 11th
District Cost of Funds index are the liabilities at the District savings
institutions: money on deposit at the institutions, money borrowed from a
Federal Home Loan Bank (known as advances) and all other money borrowed.
The interest paid on these types of funds is the cost of these
funds. The ratio of the dollar amount paid in interest during the
month to the average dollar amount of the funds for that month constitutes
the weighted average cost of funds ratio for that month. The average cost of funds is said to be weighted because the three kinds of funds and their costs are added together before a ratio is computed rather than calculating averages individually for the three sources and using a simple average of the three ratios. This gives the greatest weight to the interest paid on deposits, and explains the delayed reaction of the index to rising fixed-rate mortgages.
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