MSCI World · DCA since 2024
$500/month in MSCI World since 2024
What a monthly $500 dollar-cost average into MSCI World would be worth today if you'd started in January 2024 and never stopped. Real adjusted closes, T+1 execution, no transaction fees modeled.
If you invested $500/month in MSCI World from 2024-01 to 2026-10...
$21,828
grown from $17,000 invested over 2.8 years. +$4,828 (+28.4%)
Growth over time
Dashed: cumulative invested · Solid: portfolio value
Investment schedule
- Per investment
- $500.00
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Window
- 2024-01-01 → 2026-10-21
- Duration
- 2.8 years
- Number of investments
- 34× $500.00 each
Results
- Total invested
- $17,00034 × $500.00
- Final value
- $21,828as of 2026-10-21
- Total return
- +$4,828+28.4%
- Annualized (IRR)
- 18.35%/yrcompounded over 2.8 years
What 2024 actually was: at all-time highs
Starting DCA in 2024 means buying at or near all-time highs across most major indexes. History says this still works out fine on a 10-15 year horizon, but the first few years can feel discouraging if a correction arrives. The schedule is the strategy. Future buyers in 2025 and beyond will likely thank a 2024 starter for sticking with it.
For a MSCI World DCA buyer who started January 2024 with $500 a month, the schedule pulled in 34 purchases through 2026-10-21. Total invested: $17,000. Final value: $21,828. That works out to an annualized return of 18.35% per year on the irregular cashflow series.
The numbers above use adjusted closing prices (dividends reinvested, splits applied) and apply a T+1 policy: when the 1st of the month landed on a weekend or holiday, the trade executed at the next trading day's close. Bitcoin pages execute on the exact scheduled date because crypto trades 24/7.
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