Now that you already know what SIP is, I want to talk about a hack to create a lot more wealth than you would originally have thought. If you haven’t read my SIP FAQs: Clearing the Confusion for New Investors, you should. On with the topic!
Let us say you are doing an SIP of ₹24,000 per year or ₹2000 per month. If you start on your 20th birthday and keep doing it without any break or change in amount, you will have invested ₹5,00,000 in total. Assuming a rate of return of 12% per annum, your total corpus would grow to ₹1,84,10,194.09. For simplicity’s sake, let’s call it, 1.8 Cr.
But you won’t work for the same salary for 40 years right? Even if you are not salaried, your business will grow in 40 years. So naturally, you should be increasing your SIP amount as well. We call this step-up SIP. Your SIP can be increased by a percentage like 5%, 8%, 10% or by an amount like 1000, 5000, 10000. To illustrate the power of step-up SIPs I am going to take an example.
| Monthly SIP | ₹2,000 |
| Duration | 40 years |
| SIP Step up | 5% |
| Total Invested amount | ~29 lac |
| Total Corpus | ~3.72 crores |
| Total Corpus without Step-Up | ~1.8 crores |
| Additional Returns from Step Up | ~ 1.92 crores |
As you can see, your final corpus almost doubles if you step up your investments. Let us put this another way. If you need 1.8 crores for some goal after 40 years, you would have to do a regular SIP of ₹2000. If you include a step up in your financial planning, you will need to start today with only ₹1000!
This is the power of stepping up the SIP.
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