Your mother's employer offers a tax-deferred retirement plan (a 401-b plan, which was authorized by Congress to encourage savings) which would permit her to invest, tax-free until she retires, up to 15 percent of her salary. Once you are out of school (one year from today), she figures she can save $1,000 every 6 months, or $2,000 per year. The insurance company which manages the retirement fund promises to pay a stated (or simple) rate of 12 percent per year, but with quarterly compounding. If your mother invests $1,000 each six months, starting six months after you graduate (or 18 months from today), how much will she have 5 years from now, assuming the last payment is made at the end of Year 5? (Hint: She will make a total of 8 payments.) Group of answer choices $9,929 $12,300 $12,462 $9,897 $10,000
Your mother's employer offers a tax-deferred retirement plan (a 401-b plan, which was authorized by Congress to encourage savings) which would permit her to invest, tax-free until she retires, up to 15 percent of her salary. Once you are out of school (one year from today), she figures she can save $1,000 every 6 months, or $2,000 per year. The insurance company which manages the retirement fund promises to pay a stated (or simple) rate of 12 percent per year, but with quarterly compounding. If your mother invests $1,000 each six months, starting six months after you graduate (or 18 months from today), how much will she have 5 years from now, assuming the last payment is made at the end of Year 5? (Hint: She will make a total of 8 payments.) Group of answer choices $9,929 $12,300 $12,462 $9,897 $10,000
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Your mother's employer offers a tax-deferred retirement plan (a 401-b plan, which was authorized by Congress to encourage savings) which would permit her to invest, tax-free until she retires, up to 15 percent of her salary. Once you are out of school (one year from today), she figures she can save $1,000 every 6 months, or $2,000 per year. The insurance company which manages the retirement fund promises to pay a stated (or simple) rate of 12 percent per year, but with quarterly compounding. If your mother invests $1,000 each six months, starting six months after you graduate (or 18 months from today), how much will she have 5 years from now, assuming the last payment is made at the end of Year 5? (Hint: She will make a total of 8 payments.)
Group of answer choices
$9,929
$12,300
$12,462
$9,897
$10,000
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Future value is a sum of money invested today will become over time, at a rate of interest.
FV = PV*(1+r)^n
PV = Present value
r = interest rate
n = no. of terms compounding
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