Discover how to calculate present value (PV) in Excel, exploring concepts like future value, interest rates, and periods for informed investment decisions.

Daniel Jassy, CFA, is an Investopedia Academy instructor and the founder of SPYderCRusher Research. He contributes to Excel and Algorithmic Trading. Return on investment (ROI) measures the amount of ...

How do you know if an investment is worthwhile? How can you be sure your investment decisions will amount to the ROI you need to retire? These are important questions every investor needs to ask ...

Imagine investing in a promising project, only to realize years later that it’s taking far longer than expected to recoup your initial outlay. Wouldn’t it have been invaluable to know upfront how long ...

In the world of finance, an annuity is a contract between you and a life insurance company in which you give the company a lump sum or series of payments, and in return, the insurer promises to ...

Promoting college ROI since 2011. First, it didn’t account for the cost of attending college or the opportunity cost of not working full time. Second, it made no attempt to correct or control for self ...

* Return on investment isn’t always neatly quantifiable While 85% of respondents in an Enterprise Management Associates survey earlier this year indicated that they rely on return on investment ...