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Goal-Based Investment Calculator

The monthly investment a goal actually requires, net of what you have already saved. The split between what you contribute and what returns supply is the useful part.

Also called: how much to invest for a goal, target corpus calculator.

%
Monthly investment needed
₹21,520

₹21,520 a month for 10 years reaches ₹50,00,000. Over the period you would contribute ₹25,82,433, and returns supply the remaining ₹24,17,567.

Or as a single lump sum today
₹16,09,866
Total you would contribute
₹25,82,433
Supplied by returns
₹24,17,567

An estimate, not an offer or a guarantee. Projected returns assume the rate you entered holds for the whole term, which no market does.

Method and background

This is what the calculation gives for the numbers you entered. It is an estimate, not advice, and it knows nothing about your situation beyond those numbers. Rules for India change on a published schedule; the effective date is shown on every rule-based tool.

How this is calculated

Grow the existing corpus forward, subtract it from the target, and invert the annuity formula for what the remainder needs. The contribution-versus-returns split is worth looking at: over long horizons returns supply most of the total, and over short ones they supply almost none, which is why a three-year goal is a savings problem and a twenty-year goal is an investing one.

P = (target - existing*(1+r)^t) / annuity_due_factor
T
Target amount (currency)
C
Existing corpus (currency)
i
Monthly return (decimal)
n
Months (months)

Full derivation: Why two SIP calculators give you different answers

Worked examples

Each of these is asserted on every build. If a change to the engine ever moved one of these answers, the build would fail before the page could print it.

50L in 10 years at 12%

Amount you need
₹50,00,000
Expected return (per year)
12%
Years to get there
10
Already saved
₹0

Monthly investment needed₹21,520

inverse of the DRV-005 annuity-due formula; round-trips against the SIP calculator

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an existing corpus that already covers it

Amount you need
₹50,00,000
Expected return (per year)
12%
Years to get there
10
Already saved
₹20,00,000

Monthly investment needed₹0

boundary: 20L at 12% for 10 years exceeds 50L, so nothing more is needed

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zero return means saving the whole amount

Amount you need
₹12,00,000
Expected return (per year)
0%
Years to get there
10
Already saved
₹0

Monthly investment needed₹10,000

degenerate case: i=0 branch

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Method and limits

What it assumes

  • The return you enter is assumed to hold, unchanged, for the whole period. No market does this.
  • Returns are compounded at the stated frequency with no taxes, fees or exit loads deducted.

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