Hello Sreekanth,
Have been going through all of your replies. Really happy connecting with you. Hope you can suggest/ help me to ascertain my short and long term goals.
1. I have a Home loan from HDFC - 22k / month. Both me and my wife are employed. We would work till our retirement.[age: 55-58]. I am aged 29 and my wife 27. I have been paying home loan for past 4.5 years, and our goal is to wind it up in 5 years down the lane by 2022.[ o/s amt : 17L principal]. what is the best way to handle this?
2. we have a cumulative of 3L in our PF account as of now. In 5 years, it should be around 10L cumulatively. Is it advisable to take part of this amount to settle of Home loan? First of all is it possible to take PF money for our own use ?
3. We have a son who is going to be a year now, and we have to save for his education needs till his college.This should be around 15L in the future.
First we have to have around atleast 1-2L for his primary education itself,considering the present scenario.
4. Have Lic Jeevan saral took in 2010 and I am paying around 18k annualy for 7 years now. Can i use it in 2022 to settle Home loan , which will be 10 years of its Premium payment and the brochure with me says I will getting around 3.2L including bonuses.
Shall i continue this till its 10 years and surrender or will I be able to get any money now itself. If so, how?
I was into it because of my friends initiative. It merely has 3.5L life cover in it.
5.I have my senior parents dependent on me and I have health insurance premium of about 30k for the family covered with floater of about 10Lakhs/ year. will this be suffice? what are the options I can have to give them a constant amount monthly via any investments . Both are aged above 60 now. We wanted to take care of them really well. Both of them stays with me only.
6.Me and my wife have policies on critical illness from HDFC life. I have insurance for my house also.
7. We do have few traditional LIC policies taken way back by our parents which are to be matured next year and year after that.
8. We had our education / wedding loans put together 5L and we have recently closed it with Home loan top up.
Top up loan amount : 7L
How do we close this considering all the above comittments we have.
9. I wanted to put post office schemes in my dad name. Which one will be better?
10. I have SIP of rs.2000/month in HDFC and L&T ELSS-MF over the past 5-6 years now. I have not disturbed these funds till now.
11. Have recently paid first premium of rs.30,000 in HDFC super income plan. Your suggestion on this please.
12. Have plan to start term plan for both of me and my wife in this year or next.
Planning to go for HDFC term plan with Extra life option of rs.50L for each of us and in future we can upgrade it to Stage protection also right? Will it be ok?
13. Apart from these we do need budget for our vacation atleast twice a year with family. Cumulatively we earn 80-85k/ month FYI.
14. We put around 5k / month in PPF also.
We probably have to move into 3BHK house in the future.Currently we live in 2BHK, and think about pension and retirement plans also in next couple of years or after we had settled home loans hopefully.
These are all my queries.
What are all your other suggestions and advice. TIA.
Thank you.
Waiting for your response at your earliest convenience.
2 Answers
Hi,
1 - Considering that both of you are employed, and current interest rate cycle, you may continue to just pay EMIs and can plan for pre-payments (partial/full) may be after few more years. You may opt for investing this amount (which you wanted to use for prepayment) for your long-term goals.
2 - I assume that you are referring to EPF accounts, kindly go through below articles ;
https://www.relakhs.com/epf-partial-withdrawals-epf-loan-rules/
https://www.relakhs.com/online-epf-withdrawal-facility/
Your EPF savings are for your retirement, so you withdrawal from EPF should be your last resort.
3 - You may consider FDs/ RDs for kid's annual recurring education expenses.
For long term goal (higher education), you may invest in Equity oriented funds.
Kindly read :
https://www.relakhs.com/calculate-kids-education-goal-amount/
https://www.relakhs.com/best-mutual-fund-schemes-2017/
4 - Your high priority action is to get adequately covered through life term insurance plan. Once you buy this, you may discontinue LIC jeevan saral and other existing Traditional life insurance plans. The premium that you save by doing so can be used to re-invest in other better investment avenues.
Kindly read :
https://www.relakhs.com/financial-planning-pyramid-wealth-protection-accumulation-distribution/
https://www.relakhs.com/insurance-importance-life-health-accident-covers/
https://www.relakhs.com/traditional-life-insurance-plan/
https://www.relakhs.com/best-online-term-insurance-plans-india/
https://www.relakhs.com/hdfc-life-click-2-protect-3d-plus-review/
https://www.relakhs.com/how-to-get-rid-off-bad-life-insurance/
5 - Is the family floater plan covers three of you + parents as well?
6 - You may use the premiums saved or by surrendering the high cost life insurance plans to close your high cost (loans) if any.
7 - Are your parents dependent on you financially? Do they have any source of income?
8 - You may just discontinue HDFC Super income plan and book loses.
9 - You may need to plan for your retirement, life insurance, kid's education instead of purchase of new house / closing of existing home loan.
Hello sree,
1. Yes after 5 years only. Not advisable to close it by then?
5. Yes it covers parents also.
7. Yes they are dependent on me fully. They do not have any other source of income.
Can I go for term insurance with maturity/ survival plans?
Thank you.
Hi,
1 - Advisable not to include parents in same Family floater as premium is charged based on the eldest member of the group. So, you may think about this!
2 - Do maintain sufficient Emergency fund, may be 6 to 12 times of your monthly living expenses in high liquid saving options (FDs/Liquid funds/Arbitrage funds etc).
3 - Suggest you to consider just a Basic term plan and go for stand-alone Personal accident cover with disability risk cover.
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