This document provides information on Systematic Investment Plans (SIPs). It defines SIPs as a financial planning tool that helps create wealth by investing small sums regularly over time. SIPs allow investors to invest in mutual funds through smaller periodic investments like monthly installments instead of a large one-time investment. SIPs also help reduce risk through rupee cost averaging and benefit from the power of compounding returns. The document recommends SIPs as a means for investors to participate in market growth while diversifying risk.

1. Systematic Investment Plan (SIPs)
(The Smart Investors’ Preference)
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SIP(Systematic Investment Plan)
The Formula for Creating Wealth

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SIP(Systematic Investment Plan)
 Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is a financial planning tool that helps you
to create wealth, by investing small sums of money every month, over a
period of time.
 A Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) is a vehicle offered by mutual funds to
help investors invest regularly in a disciplined manner.
 SIP works on the principle of legitimate investments.
 It is like your recurring deposit where you put in a small amount every month.
 It allows you to invest in a MF by making smaller periodic investments
(monthly or quarterly) in place of a heavy one-time investment.
 Systematic Investing in a Mutual Fund is to preventing the pitfalls of equity
investment and still enjoying the high returns.

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It is best advised to start as early and follow these steps:
 Categorize the child’s needs and then start saving up to meet each of these goals
 While calculating likely cost of education, factor in rate of inflation
 Start with a smaller sum
 Gain from the power of compounding
Starting Early

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As there are many child specific goals you would have set, it is important to
categorise them and prioritise them.
 You will be clear about your investment horizon whenever you invest.
 You will have a better picture on the amount of risk you will take towards
completing a goal.
 You will be able to choose financial instruments that will help fulfil these
individual goals.
 You will be able to stay away from high-risk instruments.
Categorize, Prioritise and Invest

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SIP - a good choice
SIP help you participate in the growth of capital markets and
at the same time helps you diversify your risk. Thus it is a
great option for securing your child's future.
SIP gives you the flexibility to plan your investments
depending on what the eventual need is that you are providing
for.
In a scenario,
 where the investment is for a goal that will require the
funds in the next 2-3 years,
 Like a wedding or if your kid is in high school and will
pursue professionals( Doctors, Engineers..) next - it is best to
opt for a debt fund,
 Where your corpus is more or less protected and you are
able to get some returns on your investment.

7. EducationEducation Earning YearsEarning Years
Phase IPhase I Phase IIPhase II Phase IIIPhase III
Age- 22 yrsAge- 22 yrs Age- 60 yrsAge- 60 yrs
MarriageMarriage
Child birthChild birth
Child’s EducationChild’s Education
Child’s MarriageChild’s Marriage
HousingHousing
22 yrs22 yrs 38 yrs38 yrs 10- 20 yrs10- 20 yrs
Post Retirement YearsPost Retirement Years
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Human Life Cycle

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1. Age of the child: Newborn to 5 years
Investment horizon : 13 to 18 years
Depending upon when you begin investing for your child,
If you start investing at this stage,
 you allow your savings the
maximum time to build up assets for
your child's education.
 With time on your side, you can
take higher risk and go for equity
funds.
 However, if you choose to invest
on a regular basis, try and increase the
amount every year.
Here are some model portfolios

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2. Age of the child: 6-12 years
Investment horizon : 6 to 12 years
While a part of the portfolio may still focus
on aggressive investment options like
equity funds,
 you will do well to include balanced
funds also to reduce risk.
 The attempt should be to move
money to lesser volatile investment
options, as the child grows older.
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3. Age of the child: 13- 18 years
Investment horizon : 1 to 5 years
 At this stage, it would be advisable to
invest in funds that are least volatile and
overall the focus should be on preserving
capital.
 Also, liquidity should be an important
consideration while working out the
strategy.
 While the open-ended mutual funds
will ensure that the money is available to
you as and when you require it, the key is
to make the money grow at a reasonable
rate.
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11.  Most investors want to buy stocks when
the prices are low and sell them when
prices are high.
 But timing the market is time consuming
risky.
 A more successful investment strategy is
to adopt the method called Rupee Cost
Averaging.
 Systematic investing can help put the
power of compounding on your side.
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Rupee Cost Averaging

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Market timing is irrelevant

13. Invest for Long Term
Data Source : Bloomberg
• Lower the risk
• Greater the effect of compounding
• More predictable average returns
Hence longer your SIP
Period
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14. • Assume
– You are 30 yrs of age ; have a wife and kid
– Current Annual expenditure of Rs. 5,00,000
– Retirement expected at age 60 yrs
• More
– Average prices (i.e. inflation) will rise by 7% pa
– After 30 yrs when you retire, the low risk rate of return will be 6% pa
(Considering you put all your accumulated corpus post retirement in a
bank deposit)
– You will live for more 20 years post retirement
– You have invest from Rs.500
So let’s see what will be the corpus required at the time of your retirement to maintain the
same current lifestyle additionally with enhanced medical expenses
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Case Study – Real Life Situation

15. Current Expenditure Rs.5,00,000 p.a.
Inflated at 7% p.a. for 30 years
Expenditure at the time of Retirement
36,00,000 p.a.
Income to be generated post Retirement
Rs. 36,00,000 p.a.
Corpus Required at the time of Retirement
But then
there is a solution…
Therefore to generate this income
every year post retirement you need
to accumulate a corpus
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Your first reaction Impossible! It
cannot be achieved
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16. So what’s the Solution… Just one simple thing
Subscribe for an SIP of Rs.15,000 per month in a good diversified
equity fund for 30 years and forget it
You still don’t believe it that it can be that simple; let us validate our conviction
with actual returns generated in a equity fund over the years
From the table it is crystal clear that if an investor did an SIP of Rs.15000 per month in
Equity Fund for 15 years, he would have invested 27 Lakhs and that would have grown
to a whopping number of 3.4 crore as on date; in spite of so many pitfalls in equity
markets in last 15 years.
Equity Fund
SIP Investments 15 year SIP 10 year SIP 5 year SIP 3 year SIP
Total Amount Invested @ Rs.15000 per month
( Rs.)(Approx)
2,700,000 * 1,800,000 * 900,000 * 540,000 *
Market Value as on July 29, 2011 (Rs.)(Approx) 34,379,093 * 8,682,024 * 1,427,405 * 798,522 *
Returns (Annualized)*(%)(Approx) 29.87% * 29.64% * 18.56% * 27.29% *
Benchmark Returns (Annualized)(%)#(Approx) 15.87% * 18.42% * 8.36% * 14.08% *
Market Value of SIP in Benchmark#(Approx) 9,967,057 * 4,737,423 * 1,110,339 * 664,982 *
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*conditions apply
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For Example…

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Tips to how to make safe investments
Besides, since building up assets for your child's
education is a long term objective,
 It is important to ensure that you invest in
those options that have the potential to give you better
real rate of return i.e. returns minus inflation.
 This factor is crucial considering the
escalating costs of higher education.
 Mutual funds can provide an excellent
investment vehicle for your child's education.
 Besides, investing through a tax efficient
vehicle like mutual funds can help you accumulate
more for your child's education.

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Remember, the way you save as well your investment
strategy will depend on many factors like,
 how much you wish to save,
 how long until the money is needed,
 And whether you have a lump sum or will be saving
out of your current income.
They offer..,
 diversification
 flexibility
 simplicity.
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Debt Oriented Child Plans
In addition to,
 equity oriented child plans,
 debt oriented child plans
are also available in the market.
These plans have a more conservative portfolio
mix and are suitable for investors with moderate
risk profiles and time horizons.

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The chart below shows annualized returns for equity oriented child plans over a one,
three and five year time periods (based on Feb 20 NAVs).
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ICICI Prudential Child Care Plan - Study
Plan:
 This scheme was launched in 2001 and has Rs 36
Crores of AUM. The portfolio mix is weighted to debt, with
equities comprising only 24%, debt 73% and cash
equivalents 3%.
 The quality of the debt portfolio is good, comprising of
G-Secs and highly rated corporate bonds
Tata Young Citizens Fund:
 This is one of the oldest child plans, launched in 1995.
It has nearly Rs 175 Crores of AUM.
 This fund has a slightly higher allocation to equities
compared to its peers.
 Equity accounts for 49% of the portfolio mix, while
fixed income securities (debt and money market) comprise
about 44% of portfolio value. The balance is in cash
equivalents
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HDFC Children's Gift Fund Savings
Plan:
This scheme, launched in 2001, has Rs 73 Crores of
AUM.
In terms of portfolio composition debt is 51%, equity 19%
and cash equivalents in close to 30%.
The quality of the debt portfolio is good, comprising of G-
Secs and highly rated corporate bonds.
SBI Magnum Children Benefit Plan:
Thus scheme was launched in 2002 and has AUM base
on Rs 23 Crores.
 In terms of portfolio mix, equity comprises 24%, while
fixed income securities (debt and money market) 74% of
the portfolio, with debt accounting for 48%.
The balance is in cash equivalents. The quality of the
debt portfolio is good, comprising of G-Secs and highly
rated corporate bonds
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Each instrument in the market fits a particular
need and to select the best investment plan for
your child,
 You don't have a ready capital to invest directly
right-away. The capital needs to be built in terms of
savings over the years.
 You have sufficient time – your child is just in pre-
school and you have close to 15-18 years to build a
good sum of money.
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 And since we have time, we could also be a bit
aggressive in our portfolio selection and bet a part of the
yearly savings in equity instruments.
 However, a fair share needs to be invested in asset
classes too like gold for example.
We would also need to factor-in the ever increasing
cost of education. Each year, the cost of education
especially, higher education breaks new limits.
With the rising inflation, we need a vehicle which will
factor in the inflation and give you returns over and
above that.
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Futures
Child Mutual Fund plans are exactly built
around these needs,
1.Diversified Allocation: Your funds are invested
across various asset and equity classes providing
you the right mix of risk exposure.
2.Low Cost: Mutual Funds charge less than 2.25%
per annum as expenses which is way better than
spending as high as 6% on ULIPs.
3.Liquidity: Unlike ULIPs, one is not penalised for
exiting a child mutual fund plan prematurely. In case
one is in dire need of liquid money, one can always
stop and exit which makes Mutual Fund SIPs highly
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Professional Portfolio Management:
 With Mutual Funds, you get the assurance that
your money is in the hands of
professionals.
 You can get them to take up the cumbersome
and tricky task of timing the market and
deciding the right mix for investing your
money.
The best possible investment plan for your child's
bright future is to invest in your child's education
and taking all these factors into consideration,
Mutual Funds are the best possible way which
will help you give him that.
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Benefits
 Discipline :
The cardinal rule of building your corpus is to
stay focused, invest regularly and maintain
discipline in your investing pattern.
 Power of compounding:
Investment gurus always recommend that one
must start investing early in life. One of the main reasons
for doing that is the benefit of compounding
 Rupee cost averaging:
This is especially true for investments in equities.
When you invest the same amount in a fund at regular
intervals over time, you buy more units when the
price is lower.

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 Convenience:
This is a very convenient way of investing.
You have to just submit cheques along with the
filled up enrolment form.
Other advantages ..,
 There are no entry or exit loads on SIP
investments.
 Capital gains, wherever applicable, are
taxed on a first-in, first-out basis.
 Volatile market is good for SIP investor.
 Flexibility in investment.
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