The Actual Preparation that you must have before Actual investment

[ankur_soni]

If you are serious about making big in the future through investment then please follow the below points in sequence, think over it, and make an intelligent move. Earlier you start this better is the edge you get over late planning and execution.

Below are a few ideas that you must be serious about before actual investment.

1. TERM INSURANCE: Before any investment is always advisable to first work upon term insurance. Personally, 65% of professional people I know do not have term insurance. Few even do not want to know what that is and start a conversation with the definition of Term Insurance. A long-term investment not supported with Term insurance may be wasted because if something happens to you then your dependable will have to book either profit/ loss for shares you bought. This will beat the purpose you started this, but do not worry as you are no more. So better to start term insurance with a 10-years annual payment facility. You can go for 1cr+ term insurance. Policy Bazaar is an aggregator that may help you with term insurance plan comparison.
2. HEALTH INSURANCE: This is the second goal that you should target can cover hospitalization/ medical expenses for you and your family. Term insurance ensured a lumpsum assured for your dependants. Sudden big cash in a medical emergency is a challenge. Health insurance comes into the picture for this. I would recommend going with someone near you who has good experience in the health insurance industry, a good track record for insurance companies and agents. Going with aggregators like Policy Bazaar might be a challenge in the future when you are hit with a medical emergency as you might fall short of guidance. Hence, money going in commissions for a well-research insurance company plan and the agent is far better.
3. CONTINGENCY FUND: Considering the inflation, sudden medical emergencies like accidents, lifestyle diseases, etc. There is also a chance one may lose a job so he/she must be able to sustain for the next 6 months.
   a. It is highly recommended to have a corpus of 8-10 lacs dumped in liquid fund considering the emergency medical situations.
   b. It is highly recommended to have a corpus of 6 months equivalent to the current salary dumped in the liquid fund if you lose a job.
   c. Do not expect much higher gains from this, this is for emergency and must be available when desired. 5-6% is a good return if it is kept untouched for years. Somethings it does give 8% returns as well.
   d. Below is the fund that you can adhere to have an emergency fund parked.

4. ELSS: You always have a chance to save 1.5 lacs under section 80c.

   a. People can go with below few traditional options to get benefits.
   

   

   b. Few ELSS [Equity Linked Saving Scheme] are mentioned below that you can opt and forget for 3 years locking period to get a good handsome return. You have a good research capability and conviction on the Indian economy to perform better in the future than you may go for it with more infusion exceeding 1.5 lacs.

5. INDEX FUND: Invest a lump sum amount equivalent to 3 months of your salary forget till your kids need it for higher education. This is a pure part of the diversification of corpus.

6. MUTUAL FUND SIP: This is a silent wealth generator. You must keep patience, ready to put money and forget for at least 15 years. decide a monthly SIP amount that can be continued throughout the year without a gap and should be logical and ensure that you have some cash left in the bank at the end of the month. This is very crucial.

7. STOCK SIP: After good research with an investment advisor, you must do a stock SIP with a fixed amount monthly for a long-term vision. Equity has the power to make you rich with multi-bagger returns if you hit the right stocks, held with patience, did SIP with courage, never saw temporary ups and downs as corrections are temporary and growth is permanent. I would recommend staying away from cyclical stocks that boom only during certain periods never known. Avoid penny stocks. You go to the screener.in and type the below formula to get a list of good stocks that can help generate wealth for you in the long run.

   Formula

    Market Capitalization > 7000 AND
    Average return on capital employed 10Years > 20% AND
    Promoter holding > 50% AND
    Return over 10years > 20% AND
    Sales growth 10Years > 15%
   

   RESULT as of December 26th, 2021

   

8. PASSIVE INCOME: you must convert a passion that you pursue on weekends to generate income for you. The sources may be being youtube on a well-searched topic, equity research, consultant, coach on a niche topic, personal trainer, etc. The earning from this activity will meet the needs of Stock SIP as well without affecting your plan from pocket.

9. PRECIOUS METALS: If you are in India and you have kids then gold is one asset that our parents will always recommend accumulating. Trust me, we will be never be encashing this precious metal once bought, this is a form of heritage/ remittance that will pass on from one generation to another.
   a. Below is the performance of gold for the past 1 year.

   

   b. Below is the graph of how gold has performed in history.

   

Now just imagine if you have all these in place, this will ensure the future is much promising and secure. You may continue with your boring jobs but keep the above targets in mind and plan investments accordingly. Peace of mind while investing is very important to carry momentum and stay on investment with courage. You might start early with the above and get deeper benefits of compounding. Also at the same time is challenging to sync with the above plan as it needs good amount, but keep focussing big and do not get shattered. Early retirement may or may not be your goal.

[Ferrari1976]

Excellent writeup. Thank you.

[Manojchourasia2002]

Thanks for such a elaborative, and simple and lucid but guidence on investment. Worth emulating.

[Avjit]

At 70, I can only marvel at your wisdom and insight, not because I followed this advice but because fifty years ago there wasn’t an Ankur Soni to tell me all this! Great advice!

[ankur_soni]

Thank you so much for your kind word. Though I am just 33 I am trying to put my 11 years of experience in the stock market. Much more to come.

[aanishrajan]

Very well written post, provides deep insight. I hope today’s youth can learn this philosophy instead of get rich quick scheme.

[heisenberg007]

Can you add the total amount needed for this? It will take almost 5 year to collect that amount only. You have other expenses as well. In my POV, just go with both insurances and keep 6 month of monthly expenses as emergency fund. After that pick
1.Tax saver mutual fund for 80C.
2.NPS for extra 50k tax saving under 80 CCD(1B).
3. If you want safe investment then go for EPF/PPF as well(under 80C). Myself invested in that too.
4. Whatever amount left should be put into good mutual fund and index fund.
5. Rather than gold put into gold bonds. Although, I think mutual funds beat the return on gold in the long term.
I am also new to personal finance so any suggestion will be much appreciated
And one more thing, Emergency fund can be put into bank account itself. Because that is an emergency fund. You don’t want return from that so it’s safety is much more important than anything.

[hemavanteru]

Dear Ankur_Soniji,

Very good write up. Keep it up.
I request clarification regarding Index fund. Any Index fund is ok or Now a days lot of funds are traded in the Exchanges like NIFTY ETF, Bank Nifty ETF, MOFSL NADAQ 100 or MOFSL NASDAQ50 is also OK

[kkpatel1924]

Ankuji and Others:

1. There is perfection of what should be done before investing hard earned money. And, it is the right thing to do using FA or TA or best both kinds of analysis before investing into a business (stock, bonds, crypto, commodities, real-estate, land, developer, storefront, ecommerce etc).
2. Bullet 1 has to be matched closely with the availability of resources. In this case it is time, expertise, motivation, will to continue and also complete follow-thru.
3. Bullet 1 and 2 now has to be matched with so many of us who have a full time function and yet want to dabble / invest in not just one market but in many markets to gain knowledge, skill, profits, and also diversify.

Now, when you combine the imperfect world of many mixing 1, 2 and 3, we have the perfect storm of people taking tips from here and there, putting money completely in the hands of money managers, and subscribing to services for years that would not make them market returns.

The average returns of an individual investor in the US doing all investing by themselves is under 5% CAGR, and I am being kind. This is why when investing in SPY and QQQ was available and opened up, there is over $654B and if you total up what Vanguard, Schwab and Fidelity have in their Index funds, we would exceed $1-$2T (did not check). Point is, that it is bullet 1 + 2 + 3 that prevents good homework and therefore professional management is becoming popular esp. with ETFs.

KKP