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You are considering an investment scheme that has the following payoff: at the end of Year 1 it pays $1,004, at the end of Year 2 up until the end of Year 5 it pays $2,911 every year, and after that it will pay $3,976 per year indefinitely. What is the present value of this scheme if the interest rate is 10%?

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You are considering an investment scheme that has the following payoff: at the end of Year 1 it pays 1,004,attheendofYear2upuntiltheendofYear5itpays1,004, at the end of Year 2 up until the end of Year 5 it pays 2,911 every year, and after that it will pay $3,976 per year indefinitely. What is the present value of this scheme if the interest rate is 10%?

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Solution

Alright, let's break this down.

First, let's understand what we're dealing with. You're looking at an investment scheme that promises to pay you different amounts of money at different times.

  1. At the end of the first year, it will pay you $1,004.
  2. From the end of the second year until the end of the fifth year, it will pay you 2,911eachyear.Thatsfourpaymentsof2,911 each year. That's four payments of 2,911.
  3. After the fifth year, it will pay you $3,976 each year, forever.

Now, we want to find out what all these future payments are worth in today's dollars. This is called the present value. We use an interest rate of 10% to do this calculation.

Here's how we do it:

  1. The 1,004paymentisoneyearaway,soitspresentvalueis1,004 payment is one year away, so its present value is 1,004 divided by (1+10%)^1 = $912.73.

  2. The 2,911paymentsaretwotofiveyearsaway.Wecalculatethepresentvalueofeachofthesepaymentsandthenaddthemup.Thepresentvalueofthesepaymentsis2,911 payments are two to five years away. We calculate the present value of each of these payments and then add them up. The present value of these payments is 2,911/(1+10%)^2 + 2,911/(1+102,911/(1+10%)^3 + 2,911/(1+10%)^4 + 2,911/(1+102,911/(1+10%)^5 = 2,645.45 + 2,404.05+2,404.05 + 2,185.50 + 1,986.82=1,986.82 = 9,221.82.

  3. The 3,976paymentsstartsixyearsfromnowandgoonforever.Thisisaperpetuity.Thepresentvalueofaperpetuityistheannualpaymentdividedbytheinterestrate.Butsincethisperpetuitystartsinthefuture,weneedtocalculatethepresentvalueoftheperpetuityfirstandthendiscountitbacktotoday.Thepresentvalueoftheperpetuityis3,976 payments start six years from now and go on forever. This is a perpetuity. The present value of a perpetuity is the annual payment divided by the interest rate. But since this perpetuity starts in the future, we need to calculate the present value of the perpetuity first and then discount it back to today. The present value of the perpetuity is 3,976/10% = 39,760.Thisisitsvaluefiveyearsfromnow.Tofinditsvaluetoday,wediscountitbackfiveyears:39,760. This is its value five years from now. To find its value today, we discount it back five years: 39,760/(1+10%)^5 = $24,695.64.

Finally, we add up the present values of all these payments to get the present value of the investment scheme: 912.73+912.73 + 9,221.82 + 24,695.64=24,695.64 = 34,830.19.

So, the present value of this investment scheme, if the interest rate is 10%, is approximately $34,830.

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