Your co-worker is about five years away from retirement and she is feeling fairly risk-averse. she wants to make sure she preserves her retirement plan investments but she is also bullish on the market and wants to get some capital appreciation. which of the following mutual funds would be her best investment option

Balanced mutual fund

Explanation:  

Balanced mutual fund -

These type of mutual funds , inverts in more types of assets , like the bonds and stocks , for an objective like aggressive or moderate .

There a lot of balanced funds options available in the market , having a the types -

1.  passively managed

2.  actively managed .

The mutual funds which the investor can hold on for a long duration i.e. for a decade or so , are the best type of mutual funds .

the answer is either "loser" or "dumb*ss"

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the investment was $14,174.196

explanation:

a lump sum means that the father of the example made one deposit and leave it be.

we need to know the value of a capital that generated at 4.05% per year during 28 years the sum of $48,613.24

now clearing the formula to solve for capital we got:

and we reach the answer investment = $14,174.20