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retirement calculator is a tool for those who are eager to know about the corpus required post retirement to maintain a certain standard of living. Retirement calculator is considered as an essential element when Planning for retirement. It helps you to identify the estimated amount that you need to save for your retirement based on your current financial situations. Therefore, we take you through a very simple retirement calculator that will help you to evaluate the corpus needed when you retire.
While using a retirement calculator, you would need to enter certain variables, such as-
All these variables when fed into the calculator would end up giving the amount that you need to invest monthly for your retirement to maintain the standard of living. (i.e. your current monthly living expenses adjusted for inflation).
The first thing that you need to do here is, calculate your monthly expenses like household expenses, utility expenses, transportation cost, and other lifestyle expenses. Other than this, you should have a rough idea about the minimum amount that you require monthly for miscellaneous expenses. The basic assumption here is that these expenses adjusted for inflation should suffice in the future to lead a comfortable post retired life.
*To illustrate- *
Total Monthly Expenses- INR 20,000
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This is the average annual inflation rate that you expect in coming years till you retire. According to various Market sources, the average inflation can be taken to be around 4-5% p.a. in the coming years. However, one can enter their own assumption also.
This is long-term growth rate that you expect on your investments. Though the long-term return from the equity market has been 8-15% historically, according to market sources, going forward one can expect around 8-15% p.a. in the long run. If you have sound knowledge about the markets, you can enter your own assumptions on the growth rate.
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Now comes the interesting part where you get the desired amount that you need to invest monthly. Taking the above variables into consideration, you will get the desired corpus that you need to save monthly till you get retired. Here the estimated age for retirement is considered as 60 years (refer to the image below).
By this, we mean how much corpus will be accumulated when you invest for 36 years, meaning if you start Investing at the age of 24 till 60 years of age. To reach the desired corpus, you need to make a monthly investment. According to the aforementioned figures, the total investment required every month is INR 10,143 for 36 years. As indicated, the estimated total corpus will depend on your current age, current monthly expenses, inflation and the growth rate on investment expected over the years.
Conclusion- People who are planning for their retirement can use this calculator, through which you can easily estimate your retirement corpus. It will help you calculate approximately the amount needed for retirement and hence, you can plan your investment accordingly!
*Best funds based on 5 year performance.
The investment objective of the scheme is to seek to generate long-term capital growth through an active diversified portfolio of predominantly equity and equity related instruments of companies that are participating in and benefiting from growth in Indian infrastructure and infrastructural related activities. However, there can be no assurance that the investment objective of the scheme will be realized. IDFC Infrastructure Fund is a Equity - Sectoral fund was launched on 8 Mar 11. It is a fund with High risk and has given a Below is the key information for IDFC Infrastructure Fund Returns up to 1 year are on To seek long-term capital appreciation by investing predominantly in equity and equity related securities of companies engaged in or expected to benefit from growth and development of infrastructure. HDFC Infrastructure Fund is a Equity - Sectoral fund was launched on 10 Mar 08. It is a fund with High risk and has given a Below is the key information for HDFC Infrastructure Fund Returns up to 1 year are on 1. IDFC Infrastructure Fund
CAGR/Annualized
return of 11.5% since its launch. Ranked 1 in Sectoral
category. Return for 2024 was 39.3% , 2023 was 50.3% and 2022 was 1.7% . IDFC Infrastructure Fund
Growth Launch Date 8 Mar 11 NAV (28 Mar 25) ₹45.942 ↓ -0.12 (-0.26 %) Net Assets (Cr) ₹1,400 on 28 Feb 25 Category Equity - Sectoral AMC IDFC Asset Management Company Limited Rating ☆☆☆☆☆ Risk High Expense Ratio 2.33 Sharpe Ratio -0.3 Information Ratio 0 Alpha Ratio 0 Min Investment 5,000 Min SIP Investment 100 Exit Load 0-365 Days (1%),365 Days and above(NIL) Growth of 10,000 investment over the years.
Date Value 29 Feb 20 ₹10,000 28 Feb 21 ₹14,023 28 Feb 22 ₹17,580 28 Feb 23 ₹18,995 29 Feb 24 ₹32,794 28 Feb 25 ₹31,727 Returns for IDFC Infrastructure Fund
absolute basis
& more than 1 year are on CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate)
basis. as on 28 Mar 25 Duration Returns 1 Month 12.7% 3 Month -11.2% 6 Month -18% 1 Year 6.3% 3 Year 27.2% 5 Year 38% 10 Year 15 Year Since launch 11.5% Historical performance (Yearly) on absolute basis
Year Returns 2023 39.3% 2022 50.3% 2021 1.7% 2020 64.8% 2019 6.3% 2018 -5.3% 2017 -25.9% 2016 58.7% 2015 10.7% 2014 -0.2% Fund Manager information for IDFC Infrastructure Fund
Name Since Tenure Vishal Biraia 24 Jan 24 1.1 Yr. Ritika Behera 7 Oct 23 1.4 Yr. Gaurav Satra 7 Jun 24 0.73 Yr. Data below for IDFC Infrastructure Fund as on 28 Feb 25
Equity Sector Allocation
Sector Value Industrials 56.44% Utility 12.75% Basic Materials 8.95% Communication Services 4.63% Energy 3.49% Financial Services 3.1% Consumer Cyclical 2.89% Technology 2.42% Health Care 1.83% Asset Allocation
Asset Class Value Cash 3.5% Equity 96.5% Top Securities Holdings / Portfolio
Name Holding Value Quantity Kirloskar Brothers Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Dec 17 | KIRLOSBROS5% ₹82 Cr 443,385 Larsen & Toubro Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 29 Feb 12 | LT4% ₹61 Cr 171,447 Reliance Industries Ltd (Energy)
Equity, Since 30 Jun 24 | RELIANCE3% ₹57 Cr 452,706 UltraTech Cement Ltd (Basic Materials)
Equity, Since 31 Mar 14 | 5325383% ₹54 Cr 46,976 GPT Infraprojects Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 30 Nov 17 | GPTINFRA3% ₹53 Cr 4,797,143 Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Dec 23 | ADANIPORTS3% ₹48 Cr 434,979 PTC India Financial Services Ltd (Financial Services)
Equity, Since 31 Dec 23 | PFS3% ₹47 Cr 12,400,122 Bharti Airtel Ltd (Communication Services)
Equity, Since 30 Apr 19 | BHARTIARTL3% ₹47 Cr 289,163 KEC International Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 30 Jun 24 | 5327143% ₹43 Cr 512,915
↑ 37,553 Bharat Electronics Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Oct 19 | BEL3% ₹42 Cr 1,431,700 2. HDFC Infrastructure Fund
CAGR/Annualized
return of since its launch. Ranked 26 in Sectoral
category. Return for 2024 was 23% , 2023 was 55.4% and 2022 was 19.3% . HDFC Infrastructure Fund
Growth Launch Date 10 Mar 08 NAV (28 Mar 25) ₹43.275 ↓ -0.11 (-0.24 %) Net Assets (Cr) ₹2,105 on 28 Feb 25 Category Equity - Sectoral AMC HDFC Asset Management Company Limited Rating ☆☆☆ Risk High Expense Ratio 2.31 Sharpe Ratio -0.55 Information Ratio 0 Alpha Ratio 0 Min Investment 5,000 Min SIP Investment 300 Exit Load 0-1 Years (1%),1 Years and above(NIL) Growth of 10,000 investment over the years.
Date Value 29 Feb 20 ₹10,000 28 Feb 21 ₹12,339 28 Feb 22 ₹14,687 28 Feb 23 ₹17,137 29 Feb 24 ₹31,152 28 Feb 25 ₹29,967 Returns for HDFC Infrastructure Fund
absolute basis
& more than 1 year are on CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate)
basis. as on 28 Mar 25 Duration Returns 1 Month 9.3% 3 Month -7.4% 6 Month -13.9% 1 Year 4.9% 3 Year 29.9% 5 Year 36.8% 10 Year 15 Year Since launch Historical performance (Yearly) on absolute basis
Year Returns 2023 23% 2022 55.4% 2021 19.3% 2020 43.2% 2019 -7.5% 2018 -3.4% 2017 -29% 2016 43.3% 2015 -1.9% 2014 -2.5% Fund Manager information for HDFC Infrastructure Fund
Name Since Tenure Srinivasan Ramamurthy 12 Jan 24 1.13 Yr. Dhruv Muchhal 22 Jun 23 1.69 Yr. Data below for HDFC Infrastructure Fund as on 28 Feb 25
Equity Sector Allocation
Sector Value Industrials 41.71% Financial Services 19.97% Basic Materials 11.11% Energy 7.53% Utility 6.76% Communication Services 3.67% Health Care 1.75% Technology 1% Real Estate 0.89% Consumer Cyclical 0.54% Asset Allocation
Asset Class Value Cash 3.98% Equity 94.91% Debt 1.11% Top Securities Holdings / Portfolio
Name Holding Value Quantity ICICI Bank Ltd (Financial Services)
Equity, Since 31 Oct 09 | ICICIBANK7% ₹163 Cr 1,300,000 Larsen & Toubro Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 30 Jun 12 | LT5% ₹125 Cr 350,000
↑ 20,000 HDFC Bank Ltd (Financial Services)
Equity, Since 31 Aug 23 | HDFCBANK5% ₹119 Cr 700,000 J Kumar Infraprojects Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Oct 15 | JKIL5% ₹110 Cr 1,500,000 Kalpataru Projects International Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Jan 23 | KPIL3% ₹80 Cr 758,285 NTPC Ltd (Utilities)
Equity, Since 31 Dec 17 | 5325553% ₹71 Cr 2,200,000
↑ 115,875 Coal India Ltd (Energy)
Equity, Since 31 Oct 18 | COALINDIA3% ₹67 Cr 1,700,000 Bharti Airtel Ltd (Communication Services)
Equity, Since 30 Sep 20 | BHARTIARTL3% ₹65 Cr 400,000 InterGlobe Aviation Ltd (Industrials)
Equity, Since 31 Dec 21 | INDIGO3% ₹65 Cr 150,000 Reliance Industries Ltd (Energy)
Equity, Since 31 May 24 | RELIANCE3% ₹63 Cr 500,000