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You are planning to save for retirement. You would like toretire 22 years from today and you currently have $205,000 setaside. You anticipate saving $750 per month ($500 out of yourpocket and $250 from a company match into your 401(k) plan. Youanticipate earning an 8.7% rate of return over the next 9 years.After 9 years, you will up your monthly savings to $X per month(combined contribution from you and your employer into your 401(k)plan) over the last 13 years of your savings period. During this 13year, you will lower your risk-return strategy so that the expectedreturn will be 7.8%. Once you hit retirement, you want to take out$160,000 on the day you retire. After that you will take out moneyat the end of each year as follows: Years 1-7 $110,000 per yearYears 8-15 $130,000 per year Years 16-21 $120,000 per year Finally,you want to have $300,000 remaining at the end of the 21-yearretirement period and you anticipate earning 4.3% per year inretirement (Hint: Note that the $300,000 remaining is at year 21 ofthe retirement period so that your year 21 CF is $420,000 – thelast $120,000 plus the $300,000). Figure out how much you need tosave per month over the final 13 years leading to retirement inorder to meet your plan.