Finance folks.....

[mrvette]

Curious question,.....suppose one had say 200 grand in liquid assets maybe 30 years ago, with decent investment fund mgmt. over that time period ....

What would be a decent conservative value to the fund today???

[99 pewtercoupe]

Using the rule of 72...assuming a 5% return the 200k would have doubled in just over 14 years. Taking that new amount (400k) over another 14 years would put it at approx 800k Adding another year or two to that would probably be pushing close to $1M

[DAB]

1.06^30=5.74349

200000 * 5.74349 = 1,148,698, or thereabouts.

[lspencer534]

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[polarbear]

Curious question,.....suppose one had say 200 grand in liquid assets maybe 30 years ago, with decent investment fund mgmt. over that time period ....

What would be a decent conservative value to the fund today???

As a reference point, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 1939 points on this day in 1987. It closed at 23548 today. So if you had indexed that return (no better, no worse), your $200,000 would be worth $2,428,866 today- plus any dividends you might have accumulated over that time.