I am 42 years old. I have 27 lacs in mutual funds, 20 lacs in stocks, gold worth 35 lacs, EPF + PPF 12 lacs, Sukanya samruddhi -2.50 lacs, NPS- 3 lacs, flats worth 1 cr put together, 2 industrial sheds: net of loan 80 lacs. My in hand salary is 2.50 lacs per month and I earn 95k from rent. Monthly I invest as follow
MF SIP- 50K, Stocks- 40K, Gold + silver etf- 10k, lic pension plan- 8.50k, NPS- 4.4K, Postal recurring - -5k, Sukanya Samruddhi- 5k, PPF- 8K
I have home loan of 11 lacs for which I pay 25k EMI.
Since portfolio is heavily on real estate I want to build now liquid funds in form of MF and stocks. I want to earn atleast 2 lacs monthly pension after 58. I have son and daughter in 8th and 5th std. I want to assign 1 cr for their higher education.
Am I doing right investment? Help me to realign my investment strategy.
Ans: Hi,
As you yourself said that your portfolio is more on the real estate side, and now you want to build your liquid portfolio in the form of stocks and MFs. You want to earn 2 lakh monthly pension after 58 and want to save 1 crore for kids' higher education. It is possible through right investment.
- Currently your real estate fetches you a monthly rental of 95,000. It is very good. But you are also paying EMI for 80 lakhs loan and home loan. This rent can be directed towards paying EMI directly so that your salary is used solely for the purpose of other goals.
- You are almost saving and investing almost 50% of your salary in various assets like MF, stocks, etf, ssy etc. Diversification is on a good side.
- SSY is good for girl child. Can continue doing the same.
- NPS and PPF are good to go. Continue with this.
- Postal recurring is of less use to you. Can stop or surrender the same based on for how long you have been investing.
- LIC plan - usually return generated by these are only 4-5% over long run; way less than a simple FD. Can redirect these investments into NPS.
- Gold & Silver ETF - 10k monthly is a good start. Keep doing this.
- If you have good knowledge about stock market and have proper time to do research and invest - continue with current investment of 40k per month into stocks. But if you are not doing this research by yourself, then you can redirect new investments to your stocks portfolio into mutual funds.
- By continuing your current contribution to MFs (and increasing it by stocks contribution) - if you invest 1 lakh monthly with an annual step-up of 10%, you will generate a total corpus of 15 crore by the time you turn 58.
This along with your PPF, EPF and NPS will give you a comfortable retirement forever and a big inheritence to your children.
- For kids higher education, set aside 75000 monthly starting now to fulfil this requirement.
As your corpus size if more than 10 lakhs, you should get the help of a professional advisor.
Hence do consult a professional Certified Financial Planner - a CFP who can guide you with exact funds to invest in keeping in mind your age, financial goals and risk profile.
Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
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