Retirement Planning: SIP+SWP combination; Rs 15,000 monthly SIP for 25 years and then Rs 1,52,000 monthly income for 30 years

Retirement Planning (SIP+SWP): Creating a retirement corpus is long-term planning. One creates a sizeable corpus by investing step-by-step, and instead of withdrawing this corpus in one go and paying tax on it, they can withdraw it in phases.

Similarly, the combo of Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) and Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP) can be used to create a corpus and then withdraw that amount in the form of monthly income through Systematic Withdrawal Plan (SWP).

In this write-up, know how this combination can work and how with Rs 15,000 monthly SIP investment for 25 years, one can create a fund large enough to withdraw Rs 1,52,000 monthly income for 30 years.

How SIP helps create retirement corpus

A person starts SIP in a mutual fund(s) for a long term, such as 15 years or more.

They let the corpus grow and get the benefit of compounding.

In SIP investment, they don't need to time market.

To ensure that they need a consistent return, they need to keep revising their investment strategy.

How SWP helps withdraw monthly income

Once a sizeable retirement corpus is created, the investor can put that money in a liquid fund or anywhere where 6 per cent annualised return is possible.

Since one also gets growth on their SWP investment, they can withdraw much larger monthly income from the corpus than their SIP monthly investment.

Investment conditions

The calculation has the example of Rs 15,000 monthly SIP for 25 years. The annualised return on this investment will be 12 per cent. The duration of the investment will be 25 years.

What will be corpus in 25 years?

The investment in 25 years will be Rs 45,00,000, the estimated wealth gain will be Rs 2,10,33,099, and the expected amount will be Rs 2,55,33,099.

What will be SWP conditions?

The corpus amount of Rs 2,55,33,099 will be invested in a mutual fund where the expected annualised return will be 6 per cent. 

What will be monthly income?

With that return on the retirement corpus, the person will get estimated Rs 1,52,000 monthly income for 30 years. 

What will be total withdrawn amount?

The total withdrawn amount will be Rs 5,47,20,000. After this withdrawal, the estimated balance will be Rs 3,25,291.