Mpumi Madonsela has recently qualified to be a Chartered
Management Accountant and she is working at one of the big four
accounting firms. Due to the limited salary of an article clerk,
Mpumi did not contribute to any provident fund. Fortunately for
her, the firm contributed to a pension fund on her behalf. She was
not content with only a pension fund but was adamant that she
wanted a provident fund to supplement her very extravagant life
style.
Mpumi decided that on 1 January 2019, she would begin contributing
to a selected provident fund. Her contributions towards this
provident fund will be monthly in arrears. She wanted to get a lump
sum pay-out on retirement date at the age of 65. Mpumi planned to
put the lump sum in a money market account at a bank and withdraw a
monthly amount for the rest of her life. The monthly amount must be
an amount that will be able to maintain two and a half times her
1st year post article salary.
Additional information:
1. Mpumi will be turning 26 on 1 January 2019
2. Mpumi was signed off from her articles by CIMA on 1 January
2018. The accounting firm gave her a salary increase to R22 000 per
month.
3. Currently the provident fund industry provide a return of 8%
compounded monthly to try and be ahead of inflation.
4. Mpumi wants to contribute a maximum of R2 000 per month until
she is 55 years old. Then the provident fund will invest the
capital due to her at that stage in an interest bearing account
until she retires. The provident fund guarantees that the interest
bearing account will yield a 9% return compounded monthly.
5. The required return from retirement date onwards is expected to
remain at 9% per annum.
REQUIRED:
a) Is the contribution that Mpumi wants to make sufficient to give
her the monthly amount she requires after retirement? (12
Marks)
b) How much must Mpumi contribute to be able to have sufficient
monthly payments after retirement? (10 Marks)
c) What would the effect on the monthly cash flows after retirement
be if the bank compounded the investment semi-annually for the 10
year period in the interest bearing account? Using answer in (b).
(6 Marks)
d) During the initial period when Mpumi will be contributing R2 000
per month, what is the effective rate that the provident fund
delivers? (2 Marks)
e) If the interest bearing account yielded an effective interest
rate of 9%, what would nominal rate, compounded quarterly, be? (2
Marks)
Answer:
Amount to be invested in amoney market fund post retirement is | = 55,000 * 12 / 9% = 7,333,333.33 |
|
Value of Capital at the age of 55 years, the period until Mpumi contributes is (i.e., Future Value (FV)) | = 7,333,333.33/ (1+ 0.09)^10 | PV of amount to be invested in a market fund post retirement @ 9% |
Future Value (FV) | = 3,097,679 | |
Period of Contribution | = 1/1/2019 to 31/12/2048 | Since she is 26 years as on 1/1/2019 she will be 55 by 31/12/2048 |
Monthly Contribution (C) |
Here i = 8% /12 = 0.08/12 n = 29 years * 12 FV = 3,097,679 as calculated above |
|
= 2,254.92 |
Therefore She has to contribute 2,254.92 per month in order to reach Mpumi Goal instead of 2,000
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