Answer:
Lenders loose and borrowers gain
Explanation:
Whenever inflation increases the value of money falls and technically erodes interest rates (hence real interest rate falls although nominal rate stays the same)
In the scenario, if the inflation rate rises to 5.5%, then the real interest rate falls further from 1.5% to (5.75% - 5.5%) 0.25%, demonstrating that the lender is loosing further.
Contrarily, the borrower will technically be paying lesser interest to the lender because he will be paying lesser money in value to the lender both in terms of interest and principal
Answer:
The quarterly deposit required is $ 20,578.36
Explanation:
in order to determine the needed quarterly deposit, we make use of pmt formula in excel, which is given as :
=-pmt(rate,nper,-pv,fv)
rate is the rate of return on the deposit at 8% per year but 2% per quarter(8%/4)
nper is number of deposits required in the fund,which number of years ,5 multiplied by 4(4 deposits per year)
pv is the present of the value of the future amount which is zero as it is not required.
Fv is the amount expected in 5 years which is $500,000
=-pmt(2%,20,0,500000)
pmt= $20,578.36