A young woman of 20 (Let's call her Fay) decides to put $100 per month into...

 

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A young woman of 20 (Let's call her Fay) decides to put $100 per month into a stock index fund. This investment appreciates at a regular 8% per year, by no means an unreasonable estimate. At the age of 30, she marries, decides to have children, stops working outside the home and stops contributing to the fund. Her husband (Ferdinand), meanwhile, who has frittered his money and his twenties on pastimes too terrible to mention before the 10 o'clock watershed, starts contributing the same $100 per month to the same fund in his name at the age of 30 and continues until the age of 60. Fill in the table below with the value of Fay and Ferdinand's investments at 10-year intervals and find out who is better set for retirement at age 60? Interest in this problem is calculated monthly. Age 20 Age 30 Age 40 Age 50 Age 60 Fay ($100/month age 20-30) 0 Ferdinand ($100/month age 30-60) 0 0 A young woman of 20 (Let's call her Fay) decides to put $100 per month into a stock index fund. This investment appreciates at a regular 8% per year, by no means an unreasonable estimate. At the age of 30, she marries, decides to have children, stops working outside the home and stops contributing to the fund. Her husband (Ferdinand), meanwhile, who has frittered his money and his twenties on pastimes too terrible to mention before the 10 o'clock watershed, starts contributing the same $100 per month to the same fund in his name at the age of 30 and continues until the age of 60. Fill in the table below with the value of Fay and Ferdinand's investments at 10-year intervals and find out who is better set for retirement at age 60? Interest in this problem is calculated monthly. Age 20 Age 30 Age 40 Age 50 Age 60 Fay ($100/month age 20-30) 0 Ferdinand ($100/month age 30-60) 0 0