If you invested 50,000$ in the stock market at 30years old, how much do you expect to retire with at 60?

Question

now i mean how much would you expect to make with 50,000 starting at 30 years old.

Answer 1

i would expect about 3.5 million.

Answer 2

well doesn't it depend on what stock you invested it in?

Answer 3

We have to make some assumptions to answer this question.  The rate of return will be between 8% and 11% annually disreguarding taxes which if they are figured in will knock about 2-3% off of your return perhaps.  The only way around the tax question is to buy and hold which it is possible to do with an index fund or a stand pat position.  At 8% it would be $500,000.  At 11% $1,100,000.  Somewhere within that range is a decent probability although returns have been declining in recent years from what they had been when the country was younger and resources were not so scarce and things were made in America rather than in China and CEOs did not take most of the profits of the companies and put them into their pockets while running the companies into the ground.  Of course there is no law currently that says you have to invest in U S companies.  There are plenty of Chinese companies open to investment.  Also some Indian companies. And many other companies in many other nations.

Answer 4

thats a tough question to ask. If you make bad investments you can end up with nothing or be in the red. If you make really good investments the sky is the limit. You can have 5 people with the same amount of money invest in stocks and have different outcomes in the same time period.

Some people are more aggressive than others, many do the smart thing and diversify, and some do thorough homework to find that diamond in the rough.

Answer 5

That is a very ambiguous question.  High risk, medium risk, low risk?  Here is a good place to start http://www.fool.com/calcs/calculators.ht...

Answer 6

Well assuming certain things, like the rate of return remained constant.....

If you invested $50,000 for 30 years and earned 8% aannually, you would have $503,132.84

There are many Internet calculators that can show you how compounding interest can add up.