Complete Retirement Planning For Everyone | Kirttan Shah
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Retirement planning is crucial due to the lack of government social security, requiring individuals to calculate future inflation-adjusted expenses and accumulate a specific corpus using a three-bucket investment strategy to ensure lifelong financial stability.
◆Main Points
Westernization is eroding traditional family support systems for elderly care in India.
The Indian government does not provide social security, medical, or pension coverage post-retirement.
Retirement planning must exclude current EMIs under the assumption they will be cleared by retirement.
A 6% inflation rate is recommended for calculations to prepare for a worst-case scenario.
A ₹50,000 monthly expense today will inflate to ₹2,15,000 per month over 25 years.
A post-retirement return rate of 2% is used to offset the annual 6% inflation during the withdrawal phase.
Existing retirement benefits like EPF, gratuity, and leave encashment must be deducted from the required corpus.
Leaving an estate for children significantly increases the total retirement corpus required at age 60.
A 10% expected return rate is used for the pre-retirement wealth accumulation phase.
Relying on Fixed Deposits or Senior Citizen Savings Scheme interest often leads to compromised living standards.
The bucketing strategy ensures you never run out of money during retirement.
The equity bucket's growth resets the entire retirement corpus after 15 years.
✓Takeaways
Start retirement planning early regardless of your current income level.
Always factor inflation into both your future expenses and your post-retirement investment returns.
Never enter retirement with active EMIs or debt.
Account for your existing corporate benefits like EPF and gratuity before calculating your SIP amount.
Avoid relying solely on fixed income products like FDs for your entire retirement corpus.
Implement a bucketing strategy to balance liquidity, income, and wealth creation during retirement.
“Quotes
"Retirement planning unfortunately is not taken very seriously."
"You will not get into retirement where your active income stops and your EMIs are still running."
"It's always good to keep it on a higher side so that you are planning for worst and not for good."
"If you just keep doing this you will never run out of money."
"You will somewhere end up compromising because you will never have enough money to be able to take care of your standard of living."
"The most sophesticated professionals in this industry... will use a bucketing strategy."
⚙Tools
Customizable Retirement Planning Excel Tool
Arbitrage Funds
Hybrid Mutual Funds
Equity Mutual Funds
Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP)
Employee Provident Fund (EPF) / Pension Scheme (EPS)
✦Facts
A ₹50,000 monthly expense today at 6% inflation becomes ₹2,15,000 after 25 years.
A 35-year-old retiring at 60 and living to 85 needs a ₹5,12,00,000 corpus for ₹50,000 current expenses.
Leaving a ₹5 crore estate for kids increases the required retirement corpus to ₹8,17,00,000.
The liquidity bucket requires 3 years of living expenses, totaling ₹77,00,000 in this scenario.
The wealth bucket requires 20% of the total accumulated corpus, which equals ₹1,02,00,000 here.
A ₹1,02,00,000 equity investment at 10% returns grows to ₹5,60,00,000 over 15 years.
↗References
7-hour long video on selecting the right equity mutual funds
Goal-based investing framework
Risk profiling methodology
Asset allocation strategies
Macro factors affecting risk and return
Bucketing strategy for retirement
→Recommendations
Use a conservative 2% post-retirement return rate to naturally adjust for annual inflation.
Keep the inflation assumption at 6% or higher to future-proof your retirement plan.
Invest 3 years of living expenses in arbitrage funds for immediate liquidity.
Allocate 20% of your retirement corpus to equity funds to generate long-term wealth.
Invest the remaining corpus in hybrid mutual funds to generate inflation-adjusted monthly cash flow.
Avoid editing the formula-driven cells (highlighted in yellow) in the provided Excel tool.
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