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Retirement Planning: How your 5-year investment delay can cost you Rs 1.46 crore at 60 years of age?

Published on 11/07/2025 11:56 AM

In India, for addressing retirement needs, there are various available instruments such as EPF, NPS, retirement mutual funds - solution-oriented schemes etc. Nonetheless, to ensure that these asset classes serve you efficiently and rightly you need to ensure that the amount deployed in each such scheme shall suffice your financial needs during your sunset years.

The process of retirement planning entails the below steps:

So, in large what retirement planning will result in is financial independence together with security for later part of your life when you leave your working life.

The delay in retirement planning typically means when you delay your plannings and investments for the purpose it will ultimately impact your savings by retirement due to the compounding impact. 

Here this we'll illustrate this with an example, say an investor who plans his retirement planning at the age of 25 and invests Rs 5000 per month then until 60 years of age- his investment would be Rs 21 lakh and the corpus considering 12 per cent return will come to be Rs 3.04 crore.

Nonetheless, if there is 'Y' individual who starts 5 years down the line, then with a similar investment until 60 years of age, his investment amount and hence the final corpus would be lesser by Rs 1.46 crore.

So, the delay overall impacted the investment duration, resulting in a still bigger impact on account of the power of compounding, but the duration of investment made the biggest difference due to the power of compounding. The later you start, the shorter the compounding period, and the greater the loss in long-term returns.

Delaying investments even by a few years can cost you crores. Start investing early, even with small amounts, to leverage compounding and build a larger, more secure retirement corpus.

 

 

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