Where $1,000 grows fastest

Wealthy investors have more money to put into riskier investments such as tech stocks, which can bring bigger gains than retirement and savings accounts.

Notes: Data last updated March 18.
Values show how $1,000 invested March 9, 2021, would grow over time. The tech portfolio is an equal-weighted group of the “Magnificent Seven” stocks — Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta and Tesla; the 401(k) assumes a 60% stock and 40% bond mix; savings are based on short-term Treasury rates.
Source: NBC News analysis of Yahoo Finance, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System via FRED and S&P Dow Jones Indices via FRED data