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If u invest $3000-$4000 for like 10 years in stocks and bonds thru an IRA, can u make urself a small fortune?

5 Responses to “If u open up an IRA account and invest $3000-$4000 a year in stocks and bonds can u make ur wealth grow alot?”

  • Doji:

    If you invest in a consistence way be a long term investor you will grow roughly 10% or 12% (perhaps). which s better than the bank.

    Depend on which stock you invest (US/Euro or ??) the return will be different, you may need to chk and compare what environment you are in.

    good luck.

  • muncie birder:

    Those that invested 10 years ago did not. Their wealth did not grow at all generally speaking. It actually shrank some. In the best case scenario you might expect a return of between 6% and 10% annually. That would be the best case for about 90% of investors. So assuming $4000 annually and 10% annual return at the end of 10 years one would have $63,750 about.

    One thing to note is that 10 years is not all that long a time. The equation provides much more spectacular results when one thinks 30 years rather than just 10 years. The amount then becomes $657,976. At the end of 40 years it becomes $1,770,370.

  • Yes you can, as many people have done so. You can also lose every cent of it as well, also as many people have done so.

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    Yes. The lower the quality of your investments, the higher the risk. High quality investments carry a lower risk. So you need to examine your tolerance for risk.

    If you invest in stocks like Kellogg, Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Campbell Soup, American Electric Power, Exxon, BP, Kinder Morgan, IBM, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Walmart, Kohl’s, you will be way ahead after 30 years. Try to invest in the leaders in their industries.

    You are on the right track. I wish you the best.

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    Well the long term market average return on investment is 10% So if you invest for 10 years given you are starting with $0 you’d end up with between $45,000 and $60,000 depending if you used $3000 or $4000 a year. That would be about $15,000 to $20,000 in profits.