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Basics Beginner: Automatic Savings and Investment Plans

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1.
With an automatic savings or investment plan, funds are typically transferred to the target account on the same day each week or month.
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True. That regularity is important for the plan to work.
2.
Which of the following can be sources of extra money with which to start funding an automatic investment plan?
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All of the above. All of these ideas can work.
3.
Some certificates of deposit accept additional deposits.
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True. Add-on certificates allow them, which makes them ideal for some peoples automatic investing plans.
4.
An advantage of using an automatic investment plan to fund a retirement account is that it can benefit from compounded earnings as it grows.
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True. Most retirement plans benefit from compounded growth of earnings.
5.
Automatic withdrawals from an existing savings account can be used to fund _______.
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All of the above. Automatic investing can build up your investments for you.