Sir, i am retiring shortly from govt services, please let me know if i want transfer all my retirement benefits(may be around 60 lakhs+) to my wife as one time gift, will there be any tax implication on gift given to my wife. please let me know the procedure for gifting

Ans: Hello;

She will need a corpus of 10.5 Cr to generate a post-tax monthly income of 3 L.

It is considered that she might invest corpus in a equity savings type mutual fund with "low to moderate" or "moderate" risk rating.

A 4% SWP will provide her income above 3 L(post-tax)and indexed to inflation.

A modest 8% return from the fund is considered. At 6% inflation this corpus will surely last her for 30 years and more.

The existing corpus of 1 Cr will grow into a sum of 3.41 Cr in 10 years.

For the balance 7.1 Cr, she may do a flat monthly sip of 3.1 L or begin with monthly sip of 1.8 L and step it up by 14% every year for 10 years to achieve 7.1 Cr target.( A modest return of 12% is considered from a combination of pure equity mutual funds).

Happy Investing;

Ans: Hello;

You need a corpus of 6 Cr to be able to get post-tax monthly income of 2L+. (6% annuity rate considered from an immediate annuity offered by a life insurance company).

You may keep aside 50 L towards marriage expenses and another 20-25 L as emergency fund.

Best wishes;

Ans: Hello;

If your time horizon is 1-3 years you may invest in an equity savings type mutual fund with growth option.

You may use any of the online apps available for making this investment.

If you are not ready for mutual funds, a simple bank FD with any nationalised bank would be good to beginwith.

Happy Investing;

Ans: Hello;

When you are holding a portfolio of direct stocks, it is not possible that you will make profit in all of them.

As long as you are profitable at the portfolio level you should focus on reducing the losses and maximizing your gains.

Coming to Laurus Labs, I am not a chartist so won't be able to predict price movement but a basic research into the stock's financials and valuation does not give any comfort.

My view is, the earlier you exit it, the lesser will be your losses.

You may cross verify with a sebi registered research analyst.

Happy Investing;

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Ans: there are no stocks in the world which will give you 25% monthly returns. I am sorry but you need to keep your goal realistic.
if your goal is 25% monthly then I would suggest you to stay away from markets as you may end up putting your hard earned money in some ponzi scheme and loose it.
The real goal should be anything between 12-14% yearly and if you need that over a long term (10-15yrs) then plz buy a bluchip mutual fund.

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