I have couple of questions regarding home loan.

I took home loan at 9.6 per cent fixed interest for five years from LIC Housing Finance. Is it possible to convert it to the current interest rate which is less? It's around 3 years completed now.

If we make a prepayment amount like Rs 10 lakh, will we get an option to reduce the EMI?

Ans: Hello;

Belated birthday wishes!

You may do a monthly sip of 1.5 L into combination of pure equity mutual funds.(PPFAS flexicap fund: 50 K, Kotak Emerging Opportunities Fund: 50 K, Nippon India Growth fund: 20 K, SBI small cap fund: 15 K, Tata Digital fund: 15 K)

After 5 years you may expect receive a corpus of 1.27 Cr.(13% return considered)

You may invest it lumpsum in a equity savings type fund for eg ICICI Pru equity savings fund (low to moderate risk) for 2 years and let the corpus grow to 1.51 Cr. (9% reture assumed). Here you may do 3% SWP to earn a monthly income of 37.75 K which you may hike every year to keep in line with inflation.

Do not increase SWP rate beyond 3% because if you do so then during market drawdowns you may eat into your corpus significantly.

Happy Investing!!

*Investments in mutual funds are subject to market risks. Please read all scheme related documents carefully before investing.

Ans: What is your targeted fund corpus and the time horizon available to achieve the same?

Kindly clarify so as to answer suitably.

Ans: Hello;

You may invest in NPS upto the age of 70.

However even auto choice would also only allow 60-50% equity allocation at this age.

If this is okay with then please go ahead.

Else you may also think about investing in ICICI Pru Retirement Fund (G) -Hybrid Aggressive plan which is a type of solution oriented mutual fund for retirement planning.

It comes with a mandatory 5 year lock-in.

Equity allocation maybe between 65-80% and debt allocation maybe 35-20%.

Select whatever suits your risk tolerance.

Happy Investing!!

*Investments in mutual funds are subject to market risks. Please read all scheme related documents carefully before investing.

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Ans: Hello;

You should have a minimum corpus of 3.75 Cr which if utilised to buy an immediate annuity would provide you a monthly payout of 1.31L(post tax) considering 6% annuity rate.

Happy Investing!!

Ans: Hello.
There are a lot of options available after 12th commerce without mathematics. But it is highly recommended that, at least from a passing point of view, one should learn mathematics for more options. The entire mathematics is not needed for many courses but the applications of mathematics help to excel in some subjects.
Here are some options for you: (1) Law (2) Management (3) Finance (4) Hospitality (5) BBA (6) Hotel Management (7) CS (8) CA and many more. Explore your potential and interest in the relative field and choose the path.

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