Investing $100 per month doesn't seem like enough to build real wealth. Even after 30 years, the $36,000 total you'd have invested by that point probably wouldn't even last 12 months.
But that leaves out the most important part of the long-term investing equation: compounding growth.
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Historically, the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) has generated an average annual return of around 10%. There's no guarantee that investors will get that same return going forward, but it does demonstrate how a portfolio can really grow when even modest monthly investments are consistently made over time.
Let's imagine that you invest that same $100 per month and capture the S&P 500's long-term average annual return of 10%. After 30 years, you'd have invested $36,000, but the overall value of your portfolio would grow to approximately $226,000.

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