LADDER CERTIFICATES

Laddering your Certificate Accounts is a cash management option that allows you to ultimately get long term rates while retaining access to a portion of your money.

The most popular laddering option has five Certificate Accounts in 1-year, 2-year, 3-year, 4-year, and 5-year terms. When each term matures it renews to the longest term of your ladder. After Five years, you have Five Certificate Accounts (and the 5-year rates) with one Certificate Account maturing every year.

You can ladder your certificates in different terms and different number of certificate accounts if you prefer. For example you could ladder 3-month, 6-month, and 9-month Certificate Accounts with the goal of getting consistent 9-month rates while retaining 3-month flexibility on a third of your money.