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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Happy Labour Day to people who are not landlords.

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Happy Labour Day to people who are not landlords.

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BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    Please explain how to turn $210k into $1m with interest alone. I’ll even be generous and say you can take an additional 35 years of time to grow said interest.

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      Getsmarteraboutmoney.ca - go to their compound interest calculator. If you have 210k and put it into VEQT on questrade and set up a DRIP, in 35 years you’ll have something like $3 million

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        Can you link to the actual calculator you’re using for that? That page you linked is just their homepage. I’ve never seen a calculator that accounts for a DRIP.

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          It’s just a compound interest calculator https://www.getsmarteraboutmoney.ca/calculators/compound-interest-calculator/

          Use this one to calculate the value with inflation (average historically is 3.25% over the last century) https://www.wealthmeta.com/calculator/compound-interest-calculator

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      I’ve got 70 years? At 500 per month and 4% interest that’s 2.3 million, with a contribution of 0.42 million. https://www.investor.gov/financial-tools-calculators/calculators/compound-interest-calculator If you start with 210k and never input anything else you’ll even end up with more.

      I know it sounds like magic, but it’s just simple math.

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        No, you have 35 years to earn interest, because the first 35 years was spent saving the principal, remember? And remember how I said with interest alone? So no more $500/month contributions either.

        So with that calculator, $210k at 4% interest for 35 years puts you at $849,611.66 with monthly compounding.

        So not a million.

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          If you spend 35 years to accumulate money and never earn interest on it, yeah, if somebody is that stupid, your comment is correct. That’s nothing I ever claimed though, I assume people who save aren’t total dunces.

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