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10 Incredible Things That Guarantee a Stress Free Retirement

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The biggest financial mistake a person can make is not having a retirement financial plan

When to begin your financial planning for retirement?

It’s never too early to start planning for your retirement.
The best time to start financial planning for retirement in India was when you received your first pay-cheque and the second-best time is NOW.

It is usual for many of us to aspire for a financially secure and happy retired life. However, being financially prepared to meet the demands of a retired life by saving and investing requires strategic Financial Planning and implementation. You also need to know how to plan retirement income in India. Following these 10 essentials for wise retirement planning mentioned here could give you sure ways to have a happy retired life. Take a look at the 10 doctrines of wise retirement planning:

    • An important ingredient for hitch-free retired life
    • That’s a small change in perception, a giant leap in your retirement planning
    • A  proactive retirement planning strategy, you will never regret
    • Beat the inflation before it beats you
    • A little mistake that could ruin your Retirement Corpus almost overnight
    • Keep your debt under control
    • Maintain a well-balanced Asset Allocation
    • The critical deciding factor
    • Realize you need to be vigilant about sources of retirement income

  • Educate yourself about retirement savings plan management
  • Bonus Tip 1: Plan for an income for life
  • Bonus Tip 2 Take professional investment advice that works

1)An Important ingredient for hitch-free retired life: Provide for contingencies

Most of us tend to underestimate our retirement needs. Provision for medical emergencies with the inadequacy of medical insurance in old age requires financial provision.

The lack of government, social security schemes, and retirement benefits for self-employed and private sector employees create a requirement for more provision for contingencies after retirement.

When you are working there will be numerous ways by which you can source funds (during an emergency) like getting a salary advance or borrowing from a colleague or applying for a personal loan. The moment you and I retire, we become non-income generating individuals, so no one will lend money to us.

You and I need to become self-reliant in taking care of emergency situations after retirement. A provision for a minimum of 6 months of expenses including medical expenses needs to be kept as emergency funds to take care of contingencies.

A quick formula:

Contingency Fund = 6 * Monthly expenses

Quick Tip:

  • The best places to park your emergency funds are liquid mutual fund schemes.
  • Liquid mutual fund schemes provide better returns than keeping in bank savings account.
  • Selected liquid fund schemes give us a debit card facility as well.
  • The emergency fund needs to be increased year after year based on the inflation and change in your lifestyle.

2)That’s a small change in perception, a giant leap in your retirement planning: Think that you will live long

This is true with increased life expectancy. Now you will have more years of life after retirement, thanks to medical advancements.

Because of medical advancement and a better lifestyle, the longevity of individuals are going up year after year. Depending on your lifestyle and your health, you may live up to 85 years or 90 years.

This increased longevity makes a retirement life of a minimum of 25 years.

So it is better to plan for the additional years and avoid living frugally in old age.

How are you going to plan for long life after retirement?

A quick Formula:

Medical Advancement + Better lifestyle => Increased longevity => Increased retired life => Higher Retirement corpus

3)A proactive retirement planning strategy, you will never regret: Plan that you will retire early

It is wise to provide for contingencies arising that require you to retire early. You could

  • suffer ill health,
  • lose your job,
  • need to care for a sick or elderly member of the family, and
  • Women may have to opt-in voluntarily to look after the family needs.

All these require more savings for retirement needs.

Be it any form of early retirement, they can be put into two categories. They are either forced early retirement or voluntary early retirement.

Although forced early retirement in itself has risks, voluntary early retirement has some major risks too. To be precise, it has five. Read “5 Major Risks of Early Retirement” to be aware of and how to overcome them.

i) Voluntary Early Retirement

Voluntary early retirement can be fun and the beginning of the fulfillment in  your life. It allows you to give priority to personal responsibilities over other things. And most of all, voluntary early retirement gives you the chance to restore your free will.

But would it all be possible to do all these things if you retire early without any plan for your financial needs?

You can find your answer here:  How to plan for your early retirement in India?.

ii) Forced Early Retirement

Unlike voluntary early retirement, early retirement can be grim too. It is when you are forced to retire early.

Your life can get really dark with a financial crisis along with the crisis that is forcing you to retire. Here is a list of “Alarming Events That Can Force You to Retire Overnight”. You can also find the 10 ways to face forced retirement gracefully.

4) Beat the inflation before it beats you

inflation

Inflation affects the personal finance needs of the working class, but pay rises could help them resolve it to a certain extent. However, you have to save more to reduce the impact of inflation. Investing in modes that give you extra returns could help greatly.

In India, most of us do not care about financial planning after retirement. But it is equally important to give time for financial planning even after retirement.

Investors come to me and say “I would like to accumulate 2 crores and retire”. But when we work out the inflation-adjusted retirement corpus, the 2 crores would not be sufficient for him to have a comfortable retirement.

2 crores may feed you enough in the first year after your retirement. The returns from the same 2 crores will not be sufficient for you to take care of all your needs in the 10th year after your retirement because of the skyrocketing inflation figures.

This inflation will be there even after your retirement. So your financial planning should be in such a way to accommodate the expenses after retirement.

You can beat inflation by either accumulating even a larger corpus or by finding the right inflation-adjusted corpus and investing it wisely. One of these two ways is practically possible. Find out which one and how to stop inflation from murdering your retirement corpus  for a stress-free retirement life

5) A little mistake that could ruin your Retirement Corpus almost overnight: Provide for increased medical expenses after retirement

Most of us underestimate medical expenses after retirement, with these expenses being inevitable in old age.

Medical problems occur in old age and health care expenses increase unavoidably. Hence more provision for medical insurance is needed.

A consideration of

  • Your family’s general health,
  • Family history of certain genetic disorders, and
  • The class of hospital you get treated in India

would help in proper estimation for medical insurance. Medical insurance is a part of financial planning after retirement.

In addition to the medical insurance, you also need to create a Reserve for Non-claimable and ongoing medical expenses.

6) Keep your debt under control

As quickly as possible, pay off your debts. Settling off debt on schedule is a vital aspect of good financial hygiene that everyone should practice, whether or not they are planning for retirement. If you have additional loans, you risk depleting your savings and hindering your ability to accumulate money at the rate required for a comfortable retirement. 

Unpaid dues are liable to a high-interest rate if not paid for a long time. Retirement is a time in your life when you will no longer be responsible for paying off your debts. As a result, you must pay off your debts before they become unmanageable.

7) Maintain a well-balanced Asset Allocation.

Smart asset allocation is a critical component of prudent retirement planning. Asset allocation is the process of allocating funds to several investment vehicles in order to build a sufficient corpus for your retirement. The money you hold in your hand is only a tool for creating riches. You have a variety of options available to you, including gold, fixed deposits, real estate, mutual funds, and the stock market.

Smart steps while allocating assets for retirement planning:

    • As you get closer to retirement, start making low-risk investments. As you get closer to retirement and your goals, change from equity funds to bond funds to focus on a regular income, increased liquidity, and reduced risks.

  • Don’t limit yourself to a particular asset class. To increase your safety, diversify your investments across asset classes.
  • Even within the asset class, there should be a focus on risk management. To reduce the negative impact of capital loss, combine equity investments with SIP contributions.
  • Buying a smaller house and saving money is preferable to having an expensive maintained house in one’s older life.

8) The Critical Deciding Factor: Provide for your spouse and dependents who may outlive you

Inevitably,  this need should not be overlooked. If your dependents are younger and healthier than you, then they will possibly outlive you.

Creating financial security for the dependents is your responsibility. It should be one of the goals of your financial planning for retirement.

Your spouse and dependents need to live a secure financial life after your lifetime. Taking up insurance policies during your working life, and well thought out retirement planning will take care of your dependents and spouse financially.

Smart Steps:

  • Estimate how many years your dependents outlive you.
  • Create a provision for them, for those many years

9) Realize you need to be vigilant about sources of retirement income

Sometimes we may be ignorant of benefits on retirement like provident fund gratuity and other benefits.

In India, the lack of social security schemes after retirement makes it necessary to invest more in good income generating sources for a steady flow of retirement income.

The advice of investment consultants, along with financial education and information contributes to good financial standing after retirement.

Smart Steps:

  • Create a checklist of the expected income from different sources of income after retirement.
  • Note down the periodicity of the income (monthly/quarterly/Annual/-Cumulative)
  • Understand the tax implications for these post-retirement income streams.
  • Figure out the ability to liquidate or the options to take a loan from these schemes.

10) Educate yourself about retirement savings plan management

When the majority is relying on the pension schemes in the form of ULIPs offered by various public and private insurance companies, as a smart investor planning for your retirement, you need to understand,

  • The hidden charges of these pension policies will reduce the rate of returns. These policies are all heavily front-loaded.
  • Heavy surrender charges will restrict the transfer of investments to other performing schemes in case of non-performance of the ULIP.

You can watch the video below, which highlights the key features of ULIP vs. Mutual Funds. After watching this video you will surely be able to make an informed choice in your investment towards retirement savings.

See here why you should say NO to these readymade retirement plans. It will also give you insights into how you can make your customized retirement plan that fits only you. Customized retirement plans give you the 100% transparency that other readymade plans can never give.

You need to evaluate various investment options available for retirement.

You may consider tax-efficient and yielding investment options like:

  • Accrual-based debt funds.
  • Systematic Withdrawal Plans and
  • Dividend Transfer Plans.

You need to accumulate sufficient knowledge in this regard. Once you understand the basics of creating your customized retirement plan, you will have to do only one thing. Follow the basics. Here’s an article that can guide you in Create Your Customized Investment Strategy for Indian Retirees.

In addition, learning to keep track of them with professional help makes these saving plans work for you.

Here are 2 Bonus Tips for a stress free retirement life

Bonus Tip 1: Plan for an income for life

Your retirement plans need to be financial plans to make an income that lasts you a lifetime. Pensions or annuities providing the best income needs to be safeguarded, as withdrawing large sums from them could end you in financial insufficiency in the final years of your life.

To  make sure, you don’t outlive your retirement corpus,

  • You need to create a very conscious monthly spending plan
  • Assess your withdrawal strategy
  • Create some part-time income or passive income generating plan.

Bonus Tip 2 Take professional investment advice that works

Many do realize the importance of professional financial advice from professional financial advisors, but in practice seek it from family, friends and colleagues.

Can they be as good as a professional financial advisor?

Of course people around you work in the best interest of you, but no amount of best interest can amount to professionalism. If you are too reluctant to hire a financial planner here are 5 Realistic Reasons to Hire One. Or you can click on the card at the top of your screen to “Schedule Your Free Consult”.

You should also know How to Choose the Best Financial Planner for Your Retirement; so that you don’t have to hop between services. This will be crucial in keeping your portfolio neat and focused, as you near your retirement.

Finally, you must know the important questions to ask a financial planner before retirement. This post should give you an idea about the “Vital Questions to Ask a Financial Planner Before Retirement”. This will help in two ways: Help you to exploit the potential of your financial planner and Help your financial planner to assess your needs in retirement.

Auxiliary Essentials For NRI Retirement:

To complement the retirement essentials seen above, as an NRI, you may need special care to plan your retirement. Especially in the case of finances, NRIs face more complexities. Things like regulations, narrow time frames, geographical constraints, and, investment options pose difficult challenges. Find out here “What Every NRI Ought to Know about Retirement Plans?”

But is there something that you should ask yourself before all this? To help you understand your own needs better.

  • Are you saving enough money to take care of your retired life?
  • How to handle withdrawals from the different retirement investments?
  • How to manage that important financial life goal during retirement?
  • How to stick to your financial plan for retirement?
  • Do you know the Mutual Fund and SIP success stories?

The right financial advisor could give you good investment advice to have a financially secured retirement life.

A final note

These 10 financial tenets to wise retirement planning is going to be very effective if you follow them with discipline. Emerge financially secure for your retired life.

Check out your Retirement corpus with the help of this Retirement Calculator. 

What have you planned for your retirement? What are your views on these 10 doctrines of retirement planning? You can let us know in the comment section.

To have a peaceful retirement, having a futuristic financial plan for retirement will be of great help. If you are REALLY interested to create a workable financial plan for retirement, then you can take advantage of your free 30 minutes consultation with a professional by clicking the image below.

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I have been using Holistic Investment Planners for the last three years. Mr. Srinivasavaradhan answered all my questions and doubts very patiently during the first free consultation. I was able to clearly define my short-, medium- and long-term goals once I signed up for the comprehensive plan and got their investment plan suggestion to achieve my goals. They are very polite and highly professional whenever I contact them for any queries or make investments. They never pressurize you to invest on their recommended financial products. I would have been lost money by investing directly without their help since I do not have time and knowledge about different financial products. Risk planning is also done as part of financial planning. Truly, they are holistic planners when it comes to your financial planning. They help you to define your life goals, understand your financial resources and establish a plan to invest towards reaching those goals. They do review your plan as you progress to make sure that you are on correct path to achieve those goals. Kudos to the team and keep up the good work!!! I am happy that I found holistic investment planners for my financial planning and management.
aksaswadkar
aksaswadkar
24. September, 2021.
I was about to retire and really not understanding how to invest money to have financial freedom and fulfilling my goals. Was desperately searching on internet way out and fortunately came across Holistic Investment Planners. I read number of articles on their website and realized that this is the agency which I want and engaged their services for my retirement planning. It is an excellent experience to be associated with Holistic. Right from day one our interaction was fantastic and they gave me such a wonderful plan that I had never imagined. I am fortunate enough to be in the client list of Holistic. I have recommended Holistic to my friends as well.
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I've been availing their services for the past year. They are highly knowledgeable in the field and are very patient with all doubts and queries. Personalized financial planning is provided keeping your short term, medium term and long term goals in mind. They do not pressurize you to purchase schemes of their choice. They provide their input and suggestions and leave the decision up to you which shows their honesty and high principle.
Sridhar
Sridhar
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Financial planning brings peace in life. Holistic Investment have supported in arriving financial plan based on future goals. My investments are regular since then. They are professionals in their business, will recommend others.
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6. September, 2021.
I have been using Holistic Investment Planners from last one year. The journey has been fantastic. Being a finance person myself I always thought we can look after and plan own finances also. However, due to lack of time and deciplain the things are not always as desired. After joining with Holistic Investment for the first time Icame to know the Financial goals and quantified them. Some dreams were unrealistic based on the earnings and savings so had a reality check. Also got the information and deciplain of investing on regular and more rewarding securities. I definetly suggest to use Holistic Investment Planners. They are professionals, available and hear youor full story before presenting plans. They are flexile in the sense if there are some urgent deviations required, they help to plan the same. For all professionals/individuals I would suggest using professional help of Holistic Investment Planners for best results in long term investment and financial goals achivements. Last advise will be to start early in your life. It really pays well to start in the beginning itself else the dreams needs to adjust :)
Swetha Vasanth
Swetha Vasanth
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This is my first year service with the Holistic Team and I would say that they are very much helpful in creating a financial plan and follow ups during the year. I would definitely suggest them if anyone who is willing to proceed with their savings professionally.
Joseph Mathias
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6. September, 2021.
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I came across Holistic investment planners almost 5-6 years back, but I did not have the trust since I had met a few of them who did not sound promising. Then I started investing through a financial advisor of my friend. After 4 years of investing the returns were very low. I was disappointed and started looking for financial advisors when I came across Holistic investment. I had a detailed discussion about my goals and the way they would approach achieving my goal before deciding to switch my investments to them. After a thorough analysis of my then existing portfolios, they suggested new ones and we zeroed-in on 6 schemes/funds where our investment would be split. I am glad I made the decision of switching over and taking Holistic planner's advise, my returns are handsome and I only wish I could have taken their help/advise 5 years back itself. Neverthless, I would like to recommend their services for investment and financial advise if someone is serious about their investments.
Shivaram Andiappan Selvaraj
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Jey S
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24. September, 2021.
I have been using Holistic Investment Planners for the last three years. Mr. Srinivasavaradhan answered all my questions and doubts very patiently during the first free consultation. I was able to clearly define my short-, medium- and long-term goals once I signed up for the comprehensive plan and got their investment plan suggestion to achieve my goals. They are very polite and highly professional whenever I contact them for any queries or make investments. They never pressurize you to invest on their recommended financial products. I would have been lost money by investing directly without their help since I do not have time and knowledge about different financial products. Risk planning is also done as part of financial planning. Truly, they are holistic planners when it comes to your financial planning. They help you to define your life goals, understand your financial resources and establish a plan to invest towards reaching those goals. They do review your plan as you progress to make sure that you are on correct path to achieve those goals. Kudos to the team and keep up the good work!!! I am happy that I found holistic investment planners for my financial planning and management.
aksaswadkar
aksaswadkar
24. September, 2021.
I was about to retire and really not understanding how to invest money to have financial freedom and fulfilling my goals. Was desperately searching on internet way out and fortunately came across Holistic Investment Planners. I read number of articles on their website and realized that this is the agency which I want and engaged their services for my retirement planning. It is an excellent experience to be associated with Holistic. Right from day one our interaction was fantastic and they gave me such a wonderful plan that I had never imagined. I am fortunate enough to be in the client list of Holistic. I have recommended Holistic to my friends as well.
Lionel Faber
Lionel Faber
16. September, 2021.
I've been availing their services for the past year. They are highly knowledgeable in the field and are very patient with all doubts and queries. Personalized financial planning is provided keeping your short term, medium term and long term goals in mind. They do not pressurize you to purchase schemes of their choice. They provide their input and suggestions and leave the decision up to you which shows their honesty and high principle.
Sridhar
Sridhar
8. September, 2021.
Financial planning brings peace in life. Holistic Investment have supported in arriving financial plan based on future goals. My investments are regular since then. They are professionals in their business, will recommend others.
Nitesh Agrawal
Nitesh Agrawal
6. September, 2021.
I have been using Holistic Investment Planners from last one year. The journey has been fantastic. Being a finance person myself I always thought we can look after and plan own finances also. However, due to lack of time and deciplain the things are not always as desired. After joining with Holistic Investment for the first time Icame to know the Financial goals and quantified them. Some dreams were unrealistic based on the earnings and savings so had a reality check. Also got the information and deciplain of investing on regular and more rewarding securities. I definetly suggest to use Holistic Investment Planners. They are professionals, available and hear youor full story before presenting plans. They are flexile in the sense if there are some urgent deviations required, they help to plan the same. For all professionals/individuals I would suggest using professional help of Holistic Investment Planners for best results in long term investment and financial goals achivements. Last advise will be to start early in your life. It really pays well to start in the beginning itself else the dreams needs to adjust :)
Swetha Vasanth
Swetha Vasanth
6. September, 2021.
This is my first year service with the Holistic Team and I would say that they are very much helpful in creating a financial plan and follow ups during the year. I would definitely suggest them if anyone who is willing to proceed with their savings professionally.
Joseph Mathias
Joseph Mathias
6. September, 2021.
I came to know about Holistic Investment Planners online while searching for different investment ideas. Once I contacted them the journey was very smooth. Mr. Ramalingam explained all the aspects of Financial planning in detail and it opened my mind. I realized how important it is to have a Financial planning. Mr. Rajan suggested all the requirements as per my goals and made a Investment plan keeping in mind of my goals. I started my Investment journey with them. I wish I had done it some years back then it would have been in a different level. Review meetings were held every six month to check the implementation of the plan and check the results as per the requirements and to check if any changes required. Overall it was a good experience with Holistic Investment team and would like to continue in the years to come.
Srinvas Kannan
Srinvas Kannan
30. July, 2021.
I came across Holistic investment planners almost 5-6 years back, but I did not have the trust since I had met a few of them who did not sound promising. Then I started investing through a financial advisor of my friend. After 4 years of investing the returns were very low. I was disappointed and started looking for financial advisors when I came across Holistic investment. I had a detailed discussion about my goals and the way they would approach achieving my goal before deciding to switch my investments to them. After a thorough analysis of my then existing portfolios, they suggested new ones and we zeroed-in on 6 schemes/funds where our investment would be split. I am glad I made the decision of switching over and taking Holistic planner's advise, my returns are handsome and I only wish I could have taken their help/advise 5 years back itself. Neverthless, I would like to recommend their services for investment and financial advise if someone is serious about their investments.
Shivaram Andiappan Selvaraj
Shivaram Andiappan Selvaraj
3. July, 2021.
I got a free first time consultation. I got my doubts resolved. They also gave additional advises for investment planning which was also useful.
Nellai B
Nellai B
26. June, 2021.
I have been associated with them for the past three years. They are very professional and polite in answering all our questions. I have complete trust in their suggestions. I strongly recommend for anyone. I am looking forward to have strong and successful association with them.
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