Carla earns $100,000 per year now, and pays $20,000 per year on her fixed rate mortgage. Her income is subject to a COLA clause. If the risk-free rate of interest is 3%, and the expected inflation rate is 2% per year, what is the spending power of her net income in 10 years, expressed in today’s dollars?
How would you find the present value of 10 years of Carla’s income without being given an inflation rate or interest rate?
Fill in the yield curve information to the right.
Carla earns $100,000 per year now, and pays $20,000 per year on her fixed rate mortgage....
suppose you took a $100,000 15 year fixed-rate mortgage at 4.5% (APR) 3 years ago. Now the market interest rate has dropped to 4%, and you are considering refinance your mortgage. (1) What was the original monthly payment? (2) Suppose you just made the 36th monthly payments. What is the remaining mortgage balance? (3) If you refinance with mortgage with another bank and keep the remaining term (that is, 12 years until the mortgage is paid off), what would the...
Determinants of Interest Rate for Individual Securities A 2-year Treasury security currently earns 5.75 percent. Over the next two years, the real interest rate is expected to be 3.06 percent per year and the inflation premium is expected to be 2.06 percent per year. What is the maturity risk premium on the 2-year Treasury security? 1.15% 1.00% .63% 5.12%
3) (15 points) A local credit union pays a market interest rate of 5% per year for long-term deposits. The current inflation rate is 2% per year. a) (5 points) If I invest some money in a long-term fund at the credit union, what is the real (inflation- free) interest rate I will be earning? b) (10 points) I open a new account today, deposit $10,000, and do not expect to make any deposits or withdrawals for the next 5...
6. Unanticlpated changes in the rate of inflation Initially, Ginny earns a salary of $600 per year and Eric earns a salary of $400 per year. Ginny lends Eric $200 for one year at an annual interest rate of 12 % with the expectation that the rate of inflation will be 10 % during the one-year life of the loan. At the end of the year, Eric makes good on ther loan by paying Ginny $224. Consider how the loan...
32 Assume your $200,000 home appreciates in value at a rate of 5% per year. Assume you take out an 80% mortgage (loan to original value) at 6% interest rate for 30 years. Therefore, you provide 20% or $40,000 equity in the home at the outset of the mortgage. What is the amount of equity (the then current value of home (current market value) less mortgage outstanding) at the end of the 60th payment? 33 Step 1: Value of home...
Determine the size of your investment account 22 years from now (when you plan to retire) if you deposit $17,000 each year, beginning 1 year from now and the account earns interest at a rate of 8% per year. The size of the investment account is?
Jimmy and Jane Have Goals Jimmy Johnson is 25 years old. He and his wife Jane have two children, Emmitt and Patricia, ages 2 and 4 respectively. Jimmy wants to retire in 40 years and build boats. He would like a nice retirement home with some land on a peaceful lake in the mountains of Georgia. Jimmy believes that to purchase a home and lot in 40 years would cost $300,000 in today’s prices. In forty years Jimmy also believes...
QUESTIONS 1. Complete the 1992 columns of Tables 3 through 6, disregarding for now the projected data in the 1993 and 1994 columns. If you are using the spreadsheet model, use it to complete the tables. Be sure you understand all the numbers, as it would be most embarrassing and harmful to your career) if you were asked how you got a particular number and you could not give a meaningful response. 2. Based on the information in the case...
Please show the formulas. Unique Sinks Master Budget Unique Sinks is a family-owned manufacturing business specializing in sinks; it does not produce any of the faucets or plumbing needed for installation. The company focuses on the new housing market, which has been quite strong for over ten years. Unique Sinks' core competencies include a relatively low- cost but high-quality manufacturing process for sinks. During the last several years, demand for large houses with three to four bathrooms was strong. And...