Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. Suzanne is a ...

If you invested $10,000 at 5% simple interest for 10 years, you would receive $500 in interest every year, for a total of $5,000 in earned interest at the end of year 10. This would make your total of ...

is—it’s effectively a percentage of an amount over a year. If your savings account earns you a 0.05% interest per year (which is a REALLY terrible interest rate, honestly), you earn $5 in interest for ...