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Effective Annual Interest Rate

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Effective Annual Interest Rate
An investment's annual rate of interest when compounding occurs more often than once a year. Calculated as the following:



Notes:
Consider a stated annual rate of 10%. Compounded yearly, this rate will turn $1000 into $1100. However, if compounding occurs monthly, $1000 would grow to $1104.70 by the end of the year, rendering an effective annual interest rate of 10.47%. Basically the effective annual rate is the annual rate of interest that accounts for the effect of compounding.


Effective annual interest rate
An annual measure of the time value of money that fully reflects the effects of compounding.


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