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How would you invest $100.00 over 20 years?

Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude

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This is just a hypothetical question, as I just happen to have a $100 bill for my recent b-day.

Say you have a $100 bill. You have 20 years to make it grow as an investment, but you cannot add more to it, and it has to be - let's say - an investment account of some sort, not something like "buy a pencil and sketchpad, write a bestseller novel, become a millionaire" type scenario.

What would you do?

(By the by, a preemptive "of course I've got other savings more than $100, don't be daft" goes out to all the smartasses of ATOT 😛)
 
well...a dollar can get you something from the dollar menu, so I suppose 100 dollars can get you 100 things from the dollar menu.....
 
I'd buy purbeast0's Xbox and a copy of Bad Company 2, and hope for the best.

The world's ending in another year and a half, silly.
 
Wasn't there a story a while back about a guy who started with a $1.00 bill and through bartering/trading ended up with a free house?
 
Buy a market portfolio. If you can, leverage as much as you can (1:1 maybe?) it by borrowing (not sure if that constitutes adding...).

20 years will average out the volatility. Re-invest the dividends of course.
 
a bit off topic: something that's been bugging me for a while. I understand the concept of compound interest, but are there any companies out there that actually help you save this way?
 
rasczak said:
a bit off topic: something that's been bugging me for a while. I understand the concept of compound interest, but are there any companies out there that actually help you save this way?
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Your savings is compounded. Just the rate sucks so .1% compounded over 100 years is still crap.
 
rasczak said:
a bit off topic: something that's been bugging me for a while. I understand the concept of compound interest, but are there any companies out there that actually help you save this way?
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I don't understand your question. Any savings account pays interest that compounds daily.
 
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