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Need advice on following with a three year horizon.

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1. Indian Bank 1500 @65 – Exit

2. PNB 6000 @60- Exit

3 Ashok Leyand 2000@50- Hold

4. SBI(one month 100 share SIP) 350 at present @185 – Hold for long term

5. Tata motors (Rs 10,000 each SIP) 1200 @avg 150- Switch to Maruti

6. Yes Bank 2000 Locked at 47, Recently went for IPO of 1000 shares at Rs 13, awaiting allocation. - Hold

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hello, please advise on plan of action age: 40 Corpus: 3cr ICICI aggressive hybrid fund - 93L Hdfc flexi cap fund - 93L Cash in 7% interest savings account - 14L Ncd's - 100L (monthly interest income 80k / maturity dec '25) Monthly expenses: around 1.5L (including health insurance premium) Current plan: 80k income from ncd's plus 70k withdrawal from savings account Please advise a plan post NCD maturity - shall this 1cr go into 40L savings account for 2+ years expenses and balance divided into the 2 mutual funds mentioned above - and 2 years post start a swp? Thank you!
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I would recommend you to move your current MF holdings into equity savings type mutual funds (low to moderate risk) for eg. ICICI Pru and Kotak equity savings funds.

Buy an immediate annuity for the 1 Cr received after NCD maturity. At 6% annuity rate you may expect a monthly payout of 50 K.

Top up the fund corpus, if required, so that it stays above 1 Cr in both funds at the start of swp.

Do a 3.5% SWP from both funds to get a monthly income of 30 K + 30 K= 60 K

Total monthly income will be 60+50= 110 K

Please find some resource to generate additional 40 K monthly income, in a relatively less risky manner, as desired.

I do not recommend SWP beyond 3% because with higher SWP rate you may eat into your corpus during market drawdowns.(3.5% in your case suggested as an exception).

NCDs are risky hence they are able to offer higher returns but we have seen what happened in DHFL crisis so avoid it at all costs, in future.

I could have recommended to do an immediate annuity for entire corpus of ~ 3 Cr and take 1.5 L annuity income(pre-tax) but time in retirement will be high(current age 40)and corpus in annuity will not have much scope for inflation hedging.

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please provide your view on Groww Nifty EV & New Age Automotive ETF FoF Direct Growth. can i start and wait for some more day or months. There is no average annual returns provided by this fund since its inception. It started from 14 Aug 2024. please advise how much money we can start with. lumpsum or monthly basis.
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Hi Sir My son is appearing in CBSE 12th class this session and has cleared JEE mains with 99 percentiles. He is keen to pursue the career in research in Astro Physics. Can you please guide as to what course should he undertake, the institutes (both Indian and Foreign) and the admission process. Also if you could guide about the scope in this field.
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