Goal planner calculator
Start with what the goal costs and how far off it is, and see what you’d have to invest each month — or in one lump sum today — to reach it at the return you assume.
Illustrative only — this is not a projection or a promise of returns. Every figure below is arithmetic applied to the rate of return you typed in. H2 Investment is not suggesting that rate, forecasting it, or promising it. Returns are market-linked, vary from year to year, and can be negative.
What this is, and what it isn’t
This is arithmetic on the numbers you typed. It compounds them at the rate you chose and shows you the result. That is all it does.
It is an illustration, not a projection. It is not a forecast, not a recommendation, and not an offer. Nobody knows what any investment will return, so the rate you enter is an assumption you are making, not a rate anyone is offering you. Real returns arrive unevenly — good years, flat years and falling years, in an order nobody can predict — and that order matters as much as the average.
Use the output the way you’d use a rough estimate on the back of an envelope: to see whether the shape of a plan is roughly right, not to decide what a specific rupee amount will be worth on a specific date.
This shows the instalment the arithmetic needs, not an amount that will reach the goal for certain. It is an illustration, not a projection or a promise. The whole result hangs on the rate you assume, and real returns arrive unevenly.
What this calculation assumes
The calculator inflates the goal to what it would cost in the year you need it, then solves for the instalment that would reach that amount at the rate you assume. Three assumptions sit behind that:
- One rate, every month. The calculator applies the same return to every month of every year. Markets do not work that way. Two plans that both average 12% can end up far apart depending on which years were the bad ones.
- The rate is yours, not ours. The return is an assumption you are making, not a rate anyone is offering you. Nobody knows what any investment will return, so run it at more than one rate and look at the spread.
- No costs, no tax. Exit load, stamp duty and capital gains tax are not deducted. A scheme’s expense ratio is already reflected in its NAV — its per-unit value — so quoted returns are after that, but the tax you pay on redemption is not.
New to the idea behind this? Setting a financial goal walks through it in plain language.
Talk to us
If you’d rather go through your own numbers with a person than a form, that’s what we’re for. You’ll speak to Himani, who runs H2 — the same person every time.
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