Should I marry a man who prioritizes his brother over our future?

Ans: Hello Tejram
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Ans: Hi,

You are on the right path towards a steady and comfortable retirement post 3 years. Let us assess the entire financial one at a time.

1. FD - 1 crore. This entire amount can be treated as your emergency fund. Although use 50% of this fund to close your personal loan.
2. Direct equity - 40 lakhs. You can consider moving this entire allocation to mutual funds as direct equity investment is quite risky if you do not much about it.
3. CG Bonds - 19 lakhs - good debt investment option.
4. Life and health insurance - can increase the covers, specially now when you have time. Post retirment would be difficult for you.
5. 3 Flats worth 3 cr - with monthly rental income of 50k.
6. Plot worth 2.25 crores and Flat which will be fully paid before retirement from salary.
7. Physical Gold - good to carry.
8. Personal loan - 50 lakhs. Consider closing it using amount from your FD.
9. Current MF corpus - 2.08 crore with ongoing monthly SIP of 3.5 lakhs. It will become 4.25 crores at your age of 58 if you continue investing.

> Current ongoing SIPs have a lot of overlapping which should be avoided to get the best return on investments. This entire allocation needs a thoughtful and careful planning.
- For retirement, your current MF corpus and stocks would be sufficient to fund your retirement in addition to your rental income. You will also get your PF and gratuity while retiring. These will fund your retirement in initial 5 years.
- For later years, post the age of 63, start SWP from your MF portfolio wrt your expenses (inflation adjusted).
- Work with a professional to reallocate the funds in your current portfolio so as to fund your retirment wrt to retirment strategy.
- Refrain from buying any policy to lock-in your funds.
- A professional can design a bucket strategy for your mutual fund corpus. This way, you will get your monthly expenses and the rest portfolio keeps on growing. This fund will never end and you will leave a great fortune for your kids.

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, requirements, financial goals and risk profile. A CFP periodically reviews your portfolio and suggest any amendments to be made, if required.

Let me know if you need more help.

Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
https://www.instagram.com/cfpreetika/

Ans: Hi Ijaz,

If you relocate to Hubli, getting into another fresh loan for 23 years is not a wise decision. Instead wait for some years and shell off existing plots to buy a home later.
Also your overall savings seem less. you should consider increasing your investments in mutual funds instead of direct stocks to get benefit of compounding. Use the hike from upcoming pay commission completely into starting new aggressive SIPs for your future. This way, you can buy a home in Hubli faster than you may plan to and that too without any loan.

For SIPs, you should consult a professional Certified Financial Planner - a CFP who can guide you with exact funds to invest in keeping in mind your age, requirements, financial goals and risk profile. A CFP periodically reviews your portfolio and suggest any amendments to be made, if required.

Let me know if you need more help.

Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
https://www.instagram.com/cfpreetika/

Ans: Hi Vijay,

You are right in saying that there is no job security. One needs to be prepared for times ahead.

- PF - continue this investment.
- PPF - not of use to you, hence contibute bare minimum of 500 only once a year to keep the account active. Instead redirect the 12.5k monhly to aggressive mutual funds tto build wealth.
- FD - for emergecny fund - good hold.
- LIC and Tata AIA - policies like these are of no use , usually give 4-5% return and lock your money. Try to surrender if not at loss and reinvest into balanced funds.
- MF - current SIP 48k with total corpus of 8.5 lakhs till now. The current funds are average and overlapping. Need reallocation. And want to take your monthly investment to 60k.

Consider investing in 4 funds - 1 largecap, 1 midcap, 1 smallcap and 1 flexicap - 15k each.

If you decide to stop PPF contribution and LIC tata policies - redirect those 20.5k per month to momentum funds.

Achieving it fast is very tough. Slowly and consistently - you can achieve this target of 5 crores in next 14 years with 10% annual stepup. And if you add additional 20.5k per month into contribution, this can be achieved in 12.5 years.

You can also a professional Certified Financial Planner - a CFP who can guide you with exact funds to invest in keeping in mind your age, requirements, financial goals and risk profile. A CFP periodically reviews your portfolio and suggest any amendments to be made, if required.

Let me know if you need more help.

Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
https://www.instagram.com/cfpreetika/

Ans: Dear Suraj,
I understand how difficult it must be when your family is giving you a hard time, especially when your wife is also suffering because of it. It is important to stand up for your partner if you think they are being unfair to her. It is important to set a boundary from the very beginning. Politely tell your family that while you love and respect them very much, you neither appreciate nor will tolerate this unfair treatment from them. Tell them that you expect their support, you expect them to love your wife as much as they love you, and most importantly, you never expected them to behave in this manner. Let them know how much their behavior has affected you. Sometimes people don’t understand that they are hurting someone with their words. And saying all these might create a little conflict, but it is important to stand up for what’s right, even if it is to family.

Other than that, communicate with your wife. Let her know that you are by her side and you realize that for no fault of her own she is suffering because of your family’s treatment and you are very sorry for that. Sometimes, even a few kind words from your partner can improve a situation.

Hope this helps.

Ans: Hi,

You are on the right path towards a steady and comfortable retirement after 3 years. Let us assess the entire financial one at a time.

1. Current MF corpus - 2.08 crore with ongoing monthly SIP of 3.5 lakhs. It will become 4.25 crores at your age of 58 if you continue investing.
2. FD - 1 crore. This entire amount can be treated as your emergency fund. Although use 50% of this fund to close your personal loan.
3. Direct equity - 45 lakhs. You can consider moving this entire allocation to mutual funds as direct equity investment is quite risky if you do not much about it.
4. CG Bonds - good debt investment option.
5. Life and health insurance - can increase the covers, specially now when you have time. Post retirment would be difficult for you.
6. 3 Flats worth 3 cr - with monthly rental income of 50k.
7. Plot worth 2.25 crores and Flat which will be fully paid before retirement from salary.
8. Physical Gold - good to carry.
9. Personal loan - 50 lakhs. Consider closing it using amount from your FD.

Goals:
1. Sons education - 1.5 crores
2. Sons marriage - 1 crore
3. Post-Retirement income - 2 lakhs monthly

- For education and marriage goal, you can consider tossing your plot valued at 2.25 crores and invest the amount in balanced funds. These will be more than enough for both goals for your 2 sons.
- Retirement - The MF corpus and stocks would be sufficient to fund your retirement in addition to your rental income. You will also get your PF and gratuity while retiring. These will fund your retirement in initial 5 years.
- For later years, post the age of 63, start SWP from your MF portfolio wrt your expenses (inflation adjusted).
- Work with a professional to reallocate the funds in your current portfolio so as to fund your retirment wrt to retirment strategy.
- Refrain from buying any policy to lock-in your funds.
- A professional can design a bucket strategy for your mutual fund corpus. This way, you will get your monthly expenses and the rest portfolio keeps on growing. This fund will never end and you will leave a great fortune for your kids.

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, requirements, financial goals and risk profile. A CFP periodically reviews your portfolio and suggest any amendments to be made, if required.

Let me know if you need more help.

Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
https://www.instagram.com/cfpreetika/

Ans: Hi,

At the age of 42, you are headig in right direction. And I really appreciate your dedication in investing for past 7.5 years and creating an amazing corpus for yourself.
Currently you are investing 40k monthly in mutual funds and want to increase it to 50k per month which is a very good decision as step-up SIP can make a huge positive impact in your wealth creation.

- If you continue investing at this pace, with a monthly investment of 50k for next 10 years, you can easily achieve 2.5 crores with a CAGR of 13%. And if you step-up with 10% yearly investment, you can get more than 3 crores after 10 years.
- However the funds you mentioned are lil overlapping. It needs some minor re-allocation. You have 2 multi cap funds and 2 focused funds. You can keep one of both the funds.
- Increasing 10k SIP - Add 3500 to Axis Largecap (total 8000), 6500 in good Momentum fund.

As your portfolio size is quite big, it would be really better for you to work with a professional who reviews your portfolio periodically and changes it as per the requirement.
Hence a professional Certified Financial Planner - a CFP who can guide you with exact funds to invest in keeping in mind your age, requirements, financial goals and risk profile.

Let me know if you need more help.

Best Regards,
Reetika Sharma, Certified Financial Planner
https://www.instagram.com/cfpreetika/

Ans: Dear Anonymous,
So much of Sibling bonding can be very harmful for the marriage. If your husband cannot understand this, kindly make him understand this not by complaining or telling him what you don't like BUT what you would like him to do for you.
Make plans 2-3 times in a week about the same time that his sister visits, so that slowly that habit starts to break for her. When he says NO to this, he will realize the number of times that he says NO to you and may just start to change.
You have got to try whatever it takes BUT make sure it's not through a fight or demand because that is going to make him do more of what he is doing as a way of negating what you say.

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