The following tutorial question serves as practice questions on TVM and Bond Valuation (Answer Both Questions A and B). As the Fund Manager for Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Limited, you are to advise the following two (2) clients based on their respective financial situations. (Graded Manually) a. Your best friend has asked to assist him in making the best investment out of the following options. Which would you advise him to choose and why? Show your workings to justify your response. Option 1: $12,000 in 5 years’ time at 6 percent interest. Option 2: $15,000 in 2 years’ time at 9 percent interest. Option 3: $15,000 today. No strings attached. Option4: $5,000 each year for 2 years at 7 percent interest compounded semi-annually. b. Betty Kay has a contract in which she will receive the following payment for the next 5 year: $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000. She will then receive an annuity of $8,500 a year for the end of the 6th through the end of the 15th year. She is offered a $30,000 to cancel the contract. If the payments are discounted at 14 percent should she cancel the contract?

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The following tutorial question serves as practice questions on TVM and Bond Valuation (Answer Both Questions A and B).

  1. As the Fund Manager for Bank of Trinidad and Tobago Limited, you are to advise the following two (2) clients based on their respective financial situations. (Graded Manually)

a. Your best friend has asked to assist him in making the best investment out of the following options. Which would you advise him to choose and why? Show your workings to justify your response.

Option 1: $12,000 in 5 years’ time at 6 percent interest.

Option 2: $15,000 in 2 years’ time at 9 percent interest.

Option 3: $15,000 today. No strings attached.

Option4: $5,000 each year for 2 years at 7 percent interest compounded semi-annually.

b. Betty Kay has a contract in which she will receive the following payment for the next 5 year: $1,000, $2,000, $3,000, $4,000 and $5,000. She will then receive an annuity of $8,500 a year for the end of the 6th through the end of the 15th year. She is offered a $30,000 to cancel the contract. If the payments are discounted at 14 percent should she cancel the contract? 

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