The Wealth Accumulation Calculator
This calculator will give you a feel for the factors that affect wealth accumulation and the amounts you can expect at various future time frames. Change the various inputs to see the affect on how your money accumulates. Vary inflation, vary your return rate, vary your monthly deposit. Look at how the smallest change in any one variable magnifies to significant amounts in later years.
Several assumptions are made in this calculator. Primary among them is that yearly compounding is used instead of monthly or continuous compounding.
Note that the results of this calculator are estimates only, and calculators that use different assumptions will produce different results. You should make no investment decisions based solely on results of this calculator.