A mechanical engineer, who owns her own consulting business, plans to retire when she has accumulated $1,500,000. She estimates that she can invest $25,000 per year with an interest rate of 15% per year. If she is now 22 years old, what is her age when she retires? Draw a cash flow diagram as well. (Be sure to label both axis with correct units.)
- please neatly draw cash flow diagram as well as clearly labeling both axis with correct unit. The answer for her retirement age should come out to be around 38.5/39 years old.
A mechanical engineer, who owns her own consulting business, plans to retire when she has accumulated...
An individual is currently 30 years old and she is planning her financial needs upon retirement. She will retire at age 65 (exactly 35 years from now) and she plans on funding 20 years of retirement with her investments. Ignore any social security payments and ignore any taxes. She made $106,000 last year and she estimates she will need 75% of her current income in today's dollars to live on when she retires. She believes that inflation will average 3...
Robin is planning for her retirement. She is currently 37 years old and plans to retire at age 62 and live until age 97. Robin currently earns $120,000 per year and anticipates needing 80% of her income during retirement. She anticipates Social Security will provide her with $15,000 per year at age 62, leaving her with required savings to provide $81,000 ($120,000 x 0.80 - $15,000) annually during retirement. She is willing to take some investment risk. Her pre-retirement portfolio...
Josie has just become eligible to participate in her company’s retirement plan; she is excited as her company matches her contributions dollar for dollar in this plan. The plan averages an annual return of 7% interest compounded monthly. Josie is 35 years old and plans to retire at age 65. She receives her pay at the beginning of each month and contributes 10% of her gross monthly salary of $2,500 into her retirement plan. What is the total amount that...
An individual is currently 30 years old and she is planning her financial needs upon retirement. She will retire at age 65 (exactly 35 years from now) and she plans on funding 20 years of retirement with her investments. Ignore any social security payments and ignore any taxes. She made $131,000 last year and she estimates she will need 75% of her current income in today's dollars to live on when she retires. She believes that inflation will average 3...
4. (10 points) Mrs. Johnson who is 25 years old (Actually today is her birthday ) and plans to retire at the age of 65. She already has $17.500 in her retirement investment account which is expected to yield 9% return per year. Mrs. Johnson would like to have $1.4m in her retirement account when she retires. How much does she need to invest each year in order to reach her goal?
Lisa Li is 36 years old today and plans to retire on her 60th birthday. With future inflation, Lisa estimates that she will require around S1,900,000 at age 60 to ensure that she will have a comfortable life in retirement. She is a single professional and believes that she can save S4,000 at the end of each month, starting in one month's time and finishing on her 60th birthday i)If the fund to which she contributes her monthly saving of...
5. Equivalence - Uniform Series Compound Interest Formulas A young engineer wishes to become a millionaire by the time she is 65 years old. She believes that by careful investment she can obtain an 1 1% rate of return. She plans to add a uniform sum of money to her investment program each year, beginning on his 25th birthday and continuing through his 64th birthday How much money must the engineer set aside each year to obtain her goal? Please...
Martha Reagan expects to receive a $620,000 cash benefit when she retires six years from today. Ms. Reagan’s employer has offered an early retirement incentive by agreeing to pay her $362,000 today if she agrees to retire immediately. Ms. Reagan desires to earn a rate of return of 8 percent. (PV of $1 and PVA of $1) (Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Do not use a factor from a table in a different question, from the book, or...
Suzane is 30 years old and would like to maximize the amount she cam deposit into her retirement account, however she is limited in the amount she can deposit. The IRS limits the maximum deposit amount and she has leftover student debt that also limits her deposit rate. The IRD limit ius $18,500 today and is expected to rise by the cost of iunflation at 2.5% per year. Because of her student debt Suzanne can only deposit $6,000 per year...
Lana, age 32, was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder when she was 26 years old. Her husband took her to the emergency department when he walked into the bathroom and found her cutting her legs with a razor blade. At that time, assessment revealed that Lana had a long history of self-mutilation, which she had carefully hidden from her husband and others. Lana began long-term psychoanalytical psychotherapy on an outpatient basis. Therapy revealed that Lana had been physically and sexually...