TheMastersNemesis (5,341 posts)
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Look dummie, over a 40 year period, regular investment in a diversified 401k thru the ups and down, will result in a minimum of a 7 percent annualized gain.
So I put this in my little handy dandy free Open Office interest calculator:
Starting investment: 1000
Yearly investment: 1200 (100 per month)
Time to invest: 40 years
This scenario is for the poor, poor, pitiful poor.
Know what you end up with dummie?
$660,675.87
When you retire if you put that in a conservative, safe investment at 3 percent, you end up with a $20,000 year paycheck without touching the principle.
Now let us do the same with a government bond with an assumed generous gain of 3 percent:
Know what you end up with dummie?
$245,668.73
Still get a $7000 yearly paycheck.
This is just for $100 a month in both scenarios. Me? I'll invest in the 401k and be pretty damned aggressive with it cause I can tolerate more risk than most. You? You will buy dumb shit and not invest at all and be poor in your old age.
That is why you dummies are failures.
Any questions?