This quiz is designed to assess your applied understanding of savings vehicles.
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Is an arrangement between an employer and employee under which a portion of employee's pay is withheld and paid out a future date with earnings.
Allows an employee to make pre-tax contributions to an account that may be matched, in part, by the employer.
Pushes the tax liability to a future date when the money is withdrawn.
All of the above
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Passbook Savings
IRA
MMA
CD
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Certificate of deposit
Money market account
Savings account
All the above
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Spreading money across several CDs that have different term or maturity dates
Placing all your money in the shortest-term CDs and when it matures, laddering up to longer-term ones.
Shopping the market for the best rates or highest rung rate across various financial institutions.
None of these strategies.
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The interest rate is a product of liquidity.
Higher interest rates are offered in exchange for lower liquidity.
There is no correlation between these factors.
Higher interest rates are offered in exchange for higher liquidity.
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Spreading money across several CDs that have different maturity dates.
Placing all your money in the shortest-term CD and when it matures, laddering up to longer-term ones.
Shopping the market for the best rates or highest rung rate across various financial institutions.
None of these strategies
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False
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Both allow the investor to set aside pre-tax dollars.
Retirement-age withdrawals are taxed on a traditional IRA, but not on a Roth.
A Roth requires the investor to have earned income, but a traditional IRA does not.
There is no difference, other than the Roth name was added in honor of the deceased Senator who authored the legislation to create this account.
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Interest is exempt from local, state and federal taxes if used for qualifying educational expenses
Earn interest for up to 30 years
May be redeemed at any time after the initial 12-month holding period
All of the above
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False
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