East meets West (not), from Kim Zussman
For the last 30 years (1/84-present), at the end of each month Mike bought $1000 worth of SP500 index.
Akira (who lived in the US) also bought $1000 every month of his country's stock index — the Nikkei 225.
Both dollar-cost-averagers invested a total of $358,000.
Attached are the equity curves of Mike and Akira (not accounting for dividends, transaction costs, currency slippage, etc).
Mike's SP500 investment is now worth $1,200,054. Akira's Nikkei investment is now valued at $386,106.
[DCA = Dollar Cost Averaging].
