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Lighten Up Your Golden Plans With These Steps

July 22, 2019 1508

Table of Content

1. What is the need of retirement planning?

2. A Smart approach is needed!

3. Effective steps for retirement planning

Every person has thoughts on how to live the post-retirement life. Be it, relaxing at home, taking up a hobby or starting up a business. One has to plan for retirement to pursue the plans.

After retirement, one does not have regular flow of income, but expenses do remain. To sustain those expenses effective planning is essential. Inflation can be the biggest dent on an investor’s savings. To counter that one has to actively use techniques and tips to lighten up the golden years!

What is the need of retirement planning?

If a proper planning is done for retirement, then an investor can tackle most of the financial problems which might occur post-retirement. Investor must figure out the goals and what path must be taken to fulfill those goals.

When a regular flow of income is there, expenditures can be met easily. But, post-retirement the scenario changes. Flow of income breaks, and one needs to figure out what is to be saved to live a good life after retirement.

Below list covers some fronts for which money is needed after retirement:

Meet day to day expenses
Pay medical bills
Combat inflation
Preparing for uncertainties
Achieve retirement goals

It becomes imperative to make a concrete retirement plan in order to know the current position and what needs to be done to achieve the retirement targets.

A Smart approach is needed!

Just like in a race, the start is important, same applies to retirement planning. The earlier an investor begins the planning, the better it is!

Sometimes, people are not able to contribute the monthly amount needed for retirement. As a result, retirement planning gets delayed. In such a scenario it is the approach taken which is wrong. The right approach is to contribute the maximum possible at present and make up for the deficit in the future. In retirement planning, the later an investor begins, the more damage it might have on the future capital.

Another possible reason for a late planning is that an investor uses a significant amount of income to maintain the present lifestyle. As a result, at the end there is little or no money left for future investment. There is no denial that one has to satisfy the needs of present time, but planning for the future is equally essential. So, a mid-way is needed to sustain the present and to build the future.

Effective steps for retirement planning

On a concluding note below steps can help in a better retirement planning:

Think of a retirement age
Begin investing early
Calculate an estimated amount of corpus
Calculation of the future of the present savings
Bring down current expenditure
Regularly monitor the retirement plan

Enough delay has been done to plan for your retirement, don’t delay any further.

ARN: ED/08/19/14989

Francis Rodrigues

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Vishal Subharwal

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