Cost Of Waiting Calculator  
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If you are waiting for interest rates to rise before considering a fixed-income investment, you run the risk that rates fall and the opportunity to lock-in current levels is lost; or that rates do rise, but not high enough (or soon enough) to offset potential income sacrificed during the waiting period.

 

Cost Of Waiting
 
Investment Horizon:
Current Yield:
% (enter current yield available for your investment horizon)
Money Market Yield:
% (enter current yield available on money market investments)
 
 
   

Compare the yield you can lock-in by investing today
to what you might earn if you choose to wait.

Current yield available for 1 years:  0.00 %.

   
 
IF YOU WAIT...
...THEN INVEST YOUR MONEY AT...
 
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
0.00%
 
...YOUR AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURN WILL BE:
 
Yields appearing in black exceed the current available yield.
Those in red fall short of what you could earn by investing today.
 
Find the yield you must achieve in the future,
simply to break even with what you can lock-in today:

Break Even Yield Chart Months Waited Before Investing

 

 

 

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