Typically, retirement is the last and most important financial goal for most families. Before retirement, the kids would have started working and sometimes married too. However, this dynamic is fast-shifting because normal retirement is no longer at 60. It is now 50- 55.
Additionally, more and more people are getting married and becoming parents late. This means that kids may still be in school at retirement. So, how do we plan for this scenario?
Recently, a reader wrote: “Thanks a lot for this amazing tool to plan retirement. I wanted some help planning for certain expenses after retirement – a child’s college education, retirement house construction, marriage, annual vacations, car purchases, etc. As you can see, some of these expenses will be one-time (retirement-house construction, child’s marriage). In contrast, some others will recur for a certain period (child education, vacations and car purchases).
I would like to see if the corpus I have already built (or would have built as of the retirement year) would cover these expenses. If my retirement corpus does not cover these expenses, I must build additional buckets/corpora from now until retirement month. If so, I would like to know how much additional investments I will have to make from the current month until retirement month.
I am a non-finance / non-Excel person. So, perhaps this capability already exists, and I cannot figure it out. If these features do not exist currently, it would be awesome if they could be added to the FreeFinCal Robo Advisory Template.”
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The freefincal robo advisor tool can handle goals that occur after retirement. You can either plan for this via a lump sum investment. Here is an example.
Consider a couple, both aged 40. Their monthly expenses are Rs. 1 Lakh. If they wish to retire at age 50, the corpus required is Rs. 7.92 Crore. The robo tool allows you to factor in existing investments and income sources after retirement. We shall not consider these here as our goal is different.
Suppose the couple has a goal/expense whose current cost is Rs. 50 Lakhs in 15 years. They will need this money five years after retirement. The future cost will be a little over two crores. There are two ways to account for this. They can invest a lump sum (Rs. 65 lakhs, depending on inputs and assumptions) or Rs. 60,000 (approximately) for the next 15 years.
If they choose the lump sum option, they have to plan to invest Rs. 65 lakhs (in this case) independently of their retirement planning. They will have to source Rs. 65 lakhs from their investments, and the rest will be their retirement corpus.
If they choose the monthly investing option, then after retirement, they will have to fund this investment from their retirement corpus. So, the corpus will increase from Rs. 7.92 Crores to Rs. 8.27 Crores.
Freefincal Robo Tool users can change between lump sum and SIP options in Step 6A Cash Flow. First, they will have to select “Yes” to include the goal in the cash flow chart in Step 6B, and they choose the Monthly or Lump Sum option, as shown in the screenshot below.
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