There was a table made, where two people invested at different ages. Yung isa nag invest 5000 a year starting at age 15, invested every year for the next 10 years, stopped when he became 25.
Yung other one, nag invest starting at age 25, nag invest ng 5000 a year, every year, until age 60.
If both investments had a 10% nominal interest rate that was then reinvested back to itself, sino sa tinging mo mas malaki ang ipon by age 60?
Tandaan, the second one did not stop, but the first one stopped after 10 years.
The first one put in a total of 50k. The second one put in a total of 180k.
Result: First one total is 2.7 million. Second one is total only 1.6 million.
Best time to invest? start at 15 years old? hehehe.
Even if you extend the table to 100 or 200 or 300 years, and the second one keeps on investing 5k every year, hindi parin makakahabol sa first one na hindi na nag dagdag sa investment.