An engineer planning for retirement is considering purchasing a savings bond with a face value of $50,000 and a bond interest rate (coupon rate) of 12% per year payable semiannually with a maturity date 10 years from now. The engineer's MARR is 10% per six-month period. (a) Would you recommend that the engineer purchase the bond if the purchase price is $36,000? (b) Suppose the engineer purchases the bond for $36,000 and is offered $36,000 for it five years later. Would you recommend selling the bond?

My pension plan will pay me $10,500 once a year for a 10-year period. The first payment will come in exactly five years. The pension fund wants to immunize its position. Required: a. What is the duration of its obligation to me? The current interest rate is 5.0% per year. b. If the plan uses 5-year and 20-year zero-coupon bonds to construct the immunized position, how much money ought to be placed in each bond? c. What will be the face value of the holdings in each zero? Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required A Required B Required C What is the duration of its obligation to me? The current interest rate is 5% per year. Note: Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places. Duration years

By the end of this year you would be 35 years old and you want to plan for your retirement. You wish to retire at the age of 65 and you expect to live 20 years after retirement. Upon retirement you wish to have an annual sum of $50,000 to supplement your social security benefits. Therefore, you opened now your retirement account with 7% annual interest rate. At retirement you liquidate your account and use the funds to buy an investment grade bond which makes $50,000 annual coupon payments based on a 6 % coupon rate, throughout your retirement years. Suppose you think if you were to retire right now you would have needed $50,000 each year to supplement your social security and maintain your desired lifestyle. But because there is on average 3% annual inflation, when you retire in 30 years from now you need more than $50,000 per year to maintain the lifestyle you like.     How much annual payment in the retirement account is needed to accumulate the amount needed to purchase the bond…

On January 1 2021, you will purchase a $350,000 house. To pay for the house you will pay 20% down (in Cash) and borrow the remainder under a 30 year mortgage with a contractual interest rate of 3.35% Your market rate of interest, for the risk you pose, is 4.5% Your payments are due at the end of each month with the first payment due 1/31/2021. How much interest (rounded to the nearest dollar) will you repay during the time period of 2022-2025 ((the second through fifth year of the loan))