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Yep that’s it. All you need to do is keep investing in the s and p 500 every month. You put in at some bad times and some great time and it’ll go up over time. Read JL Collin’s the simple path to wealth. All you need to know is in there, but high level it says to do what I said above in a bit more detail.
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Im 32. It can be that simple! If you have a 401k or another retirement account at work make sure you are NOT in a target date fund. You are too young to be holding bonds or other "less risky" investments. Find an offering that mimics the S&P 500.
What I do is all S&P 500 in my 401k as this should get me to a decent retirement by itself. On top of that, invest in my Roth IRA about 50% S&P 500 and 50% individual stocks and in a traditional brokerage I do $20 a week S&P 500 (just because lol) and invest mainly in tech individual stocks for the rest (thank you NVIDIA!)
My thought process is to get the "safer" return in my 401k since I have limited options and it is tax advantaged, get my retirement on track for about age 55, and invest in riskier options to hopefully retire earlier and be able to have a decent pile of money incase I want to invest in real estate down the road.
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I’m 56 and have $1.7M in my S&P500 brokerage fund that I built just with monthly contributions. I started with $75/month and increased to $1500/month over time.
I use SP 500 pt to pt indexing and have been gaining about 11% each year. Happy with this since my principal is not exposed! Different strategies can be mixed based on what your overall goal is