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Sunil Lala

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Sunil Lala founded SL Wealth, a company that offers life and non-life insurance, mutual fund and asset allocation advice, in 2005. A certified financial planner, he has three decades of domain experience. His expertise includes designing goal-specific financial plans and creating investment awareness. He has been a registered member of the Financial Planning Standards Board since 2009.... more

Answered on Jul 23, 2025

Asked by Anonymous - Jul 19, 2025Hindi
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Hi I am 38 years old and my monthly salary is 1.18 lakh. Stock investment of 180000 and I have FDs of of 1400000. I have a home loan for which i am paying EMI of 25000 and the loan tenure is next 12 years. I have been investing in monthly sip of Rs 27500 and the accumulated corpus is appx 19 lakh from this Sip. RD of 2500 every month for 1 year and the maturity goes to PPF every year in April. Gold invest of 4000 monthly from which i buy physical gold every year. Monthly expenses of Rs 42000. I have a daughter who is 4.8 yrs old. I want to build a retirement corpus of 5 cr. Also I wish to work till 55. Suggest if i have to increase my investment every month??also suggest other investment instruments to build retirement corpus.
Ans: Hello, you do not need to invest in RD which is transferring to PPF because that money is getting locked @7.1% for 15 years, if you wish to lock your money away for such a long time, equity mutual funds is the best place because it will generate much more returns than a fixed instrument like PPF. From your details, there's a 55k balance of which you are investing 25.5k in Mutual Funds via SIPs, 2.5k per month in RD (not required) and 4k per month in gold, there still remains some amount monthly that must be lying idle in your bank account.
To have a corpus of 5Cr in the next 17 years, you need to reshuffle your lumpsum investments (1.8L stocks, 14L FDs and 19L mutual funds totalling to ~35L) and if you can find assets that can yield a 15% CAGR over next 17 years, you should reach your goal.
I would be delighted to have a detailed conversation and help you reach your retirement goal + create your daughter's education and marriage corpus, if you are interested to have a detailed conversation as well please visit my website www.slwealthsolutions.com
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Answered on Jul 22, 2025

Asked by Anonymous - Jul 19, 2025Hindi
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Hi, I am 37 years old, married but no kids. Plan to have a kid in next 18-24 months. My current investments include 25lakh in PPF, 45 lakh in EPF, 98 lakh in MF, 20 lakh in stocks and 50 lakh in NSC/KVP, 15 Lakh in NPS & 10 Lakh SGB. My monthly in hand is 2.5 Lakh. My SIP is 60k per month spread across 8 MFs including Index, MidCap, BlueChip & Arbitrage funds. Have a car loan with 40k EMI. My monthly expenses are approx. 75k. With a kid planned in 18-24 months and monthly expenses growing to 1.25 lakh. I have my own house and have no EMIs for it. Major future expenses shall include 1 international trip once in every 2 years (approx 3 lakh at current value each trip post retirement), kids education (20 lakh for Grad & 50 lakh for PG at current value) , marriage (approx 30-40 lakh @ current value) etc. How much savings do I need to safely retired by 48-50. Also, by how much shall I increase my SIP to achieve financial independence by 48-50 years with Life expectancy until approx. 75 yrs.
Ans: Hello, you have a lot of money parked in investments that are not liquid at all. For eg, money locked in PPF, EPF (70L) is not considered a liquid asset and may pose a problem in case need arises in near future. Also, 50L in NSC/KVP, 15L in NPS and 10L in SGB are investments that are not yielding optimum returns. You have 98L worth of MFs and I'm sure you have seen the growth rate, and even after seeing that you have decided to lock your money in low yielding assets that are barely beating the inflation. Your SIP decisions of Index funds, Bluechips and Arbitrage funds are also ineffecient since you have a lot of investible time in your hand to make generational returns over long periods of time.
I understand your financial goals w.r.t to your child and retirement, but there still seems some data that may be required on my end in order to help you with apt advice about planning for the future. But as of now, from the data you have shared, I would humbly advice you to stop investing in assets that are illiquid in nature or are not yielding optimum returns for you like investments in PPF, EPF, NPS, NSC and SGBs.
I'll be very happy to discuss more with you about your scenario, and if you are interested do have a look at my website www.slwealthsolutions.com
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Answered on Jul 18, 2025

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Dear Sir, I am 40 year old, my take home is 1.41 lacs per month. I have 11 year old daughter and 3.5 year old son. I am investing 12.5k per month in SSY (27 lacs in total) and 12.5k per month in PPF (6 lacs in total). Investing around 4k in SIP in index fund (1.2 lacs) and I have around 30 lacs in FD. I have taken 1cr term insurance and have 10lakhs health insurance for family. FD is not giving me satisfactory returns and not beating the inflation. I am planning to invest 25 lacs in buying a site. I don't have any loans and don't have major commitment other than children education. I request you to guide me on future investments, I would like to get a constant income of 1-1.5 lacs PM after 5-6 years.
Ans: Hi Ajay, understand the SSY and PPF are also not givin you enough returns, your SIP in index funds and FD all are ineffecient return making assets. Buying a site will not ensure liquidity when you will need it the most, and 10L health insurance for a family of 4 is low as well.
Having a constant income of 1-1.5L p.m. means annually 12-18L of income, and to have a passive income like that, your corpus should be 15-16x of the annual income --> which means we are looking at 1.8Cr to 2.7Cr of corpus in the next 5-6 years.
There are a lot of flaws in your investment strategies because at one place you are wanting to lock in money at a site, in SSY and PPF and on the other you are looking to earn 1-1.5L p.m. which is possible through liquid investments.
I would love to help you out, but to me it feels like there is a gap in the knowledge about investments and personal finance. If you are wanting to have a detailed conversation about your investments and where you can park your money to grow it to have the monthly income you want after a certain number of years, visit my website www.slwealthsolutions.com
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Answered on Jul 18, 2025

Answered on Jul 15, 2025

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Sir, I am giving my financial portfolio, I am 33 years, married, no kids now( plan for 1 kid in future), MF- 1.4 Cr(70000 sip per month) Fd- 50 lakhs Ppf- 5 lakhs Epf+Nps- 60 lakhs Gold- 10 lakhs Immovable property- 75 lakhs Can I plan to retire early at age 42 years, what corpus will be good for rest 35 to 40 years? Present salary- 1.8 lakhs/month
Ans: Hi Anurag, you have a good portfolio in terms of value. In order to retire, what is more important to understand is your monthly expenses. Ideally, you should have about 15-16x of your annual expenses. Here, your allocation of money in FD, EPF+NPS of 1.1Cr is making ineffecient returns, you can have a better asset allocation keeping in mind the risk and return trade off. You can certainly retire 9 years from now, but I think I will need more details to guide you correctly. I would love to have a conversation with you, please visit www.slwealthsolutions.com to have a detailed discussion on the same.
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Answered on Jul 15, 2025

Asked by Anonymous - Jul 12, 2025Hindi
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Hi, Me and My wife earn earn 2 lacs per month after taxes (Both Salaried). Im 34 and she is 31. We have a 1 Year old son. Current investments are as follows. MF: 2 Lacs (Sip 25k per month. PPFAS: 10K, ICICI Prud Large Cap Direct: 3k, Motilal Oswal midcap: 2k, LIC MF Gold ETF: 5K, Nippon inida Small cap: 5k) FD: 4 Lacs EPF: 7 Lacs PPF: 1.5 LPA (Started in april this year 12500 per month) Expenses ( 50 k per month) Liabilities. Home loan: 40 months remaining 35k EMI. We wish to achieve following goals. 1. 60Lacs in next 16 years for childs education. 2. 60Lacs in next 10 years for new home. 3. 2Cr in next 20 years for retirement. Please suggest suitable plan and investment change if any to achieve above goals.
Ans: Hello, to achieve 1.2Cr in the next 10 years, you need to have SIPs worth 50k today which will yield a CAGR of 15% to achieve the target. Another 20k SIP to achieve the 2Cr retirement target, which totals to 70k SIPs starting today. Your financials look very stable with the income you'll have, but the investment decisions w.r.t the mutual funds, the PPF and EPF are wrong since they will not yield optimum returns in the long run. As far as tax planning and safety is concerned, there are other better avenues to put your money which will be more effecient than your current decisions. Also, as far as your mutual funds are concerned, these look very "safe" and selection looks a lot based on past returns.
I would love to help you and have a detailed conversation with you for better, apt advice for you; please visit the website slwealthsolutions.com if you are interested.
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Answered on Jul 15, 2025

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