Lifecycle investment simulation across 200 birth cohorts

This simulation tracks 125 people, one born in each year from 1901 to 2025.

• Start investing at age 25.
• Stop at age 65 (or hold through December 2025 if not yet retired).
• Uses annual returns derived from source: fallback_slickcharts_annual_total_return.
• Market data coverage in this run: 1926 to 2025.
• Cohorts with labor-force entry before the first market-data year are excluded.

Cohort outcomes at retirement/end date (monthly $1 investing)

Variant: cohort outcomes by ending portfolio value

Download: Monthly cohort summary CSV.

Interactive stacked lifecycle curves — monthly $1 investing

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