Question

If you were opening a savings account with compound interest, would you prefer an account that offers annual compounding, quarterly compounding, or daily compounding? Explain your answer using atleast two full sentences.

Answer 1

 It is very simple. The more often it is compounded the better. So daily is the best, next is weekly, monthly etc. The greater the number of compounding periods, the better it is for your bottom line. 
With a savings account you are lending the bank money but with a mortgage they lend you money so conversely, you want as few compounding periods as possible. 
It works this way because at each break point to which they compound interest (ie.say monthly) they capitalize (add the interest earned to that point) into the investment and you earn interest on your interest for the next period as well as on the principal you started with (next month in this scenario) So the more often they include the interest earned into the calculation (compound periods) the greater the impact on growth. hope it helps