I had blogged earlier about the personal finance tools available on internet. But after a long bout of finance management failure, I'm going to try and experiment by publicly doing my finances (of course some numbers are fuzzed but are close). I want to be able to get my net worth to a million dollars in seven years, is it possible?With about $2000 of Cash flow every month what sort of rate of interest should i aim for ? So for this saving to become 1million i need a rate of return equivalent to 45%, as this calculation shows!!
So short question, can I achieve a consistent rate of of 45%? Is very unlikely! Which implies that i should increase by savings! This takes me to saving almost about 65K a year!!! Lets see!!
Next in this line of thought I want to see what my current rate of return is. I know its less than 1o%!! So point number one is something needs to be done about this poor investment strategy!
The bigger point and most import is budgeting! Is my money doing what i want to do? I'm I using money to buy things which will improve my quality of life? Or am i buying products or services which are improving my quality of life? Clearly i spend a lot on following items:
- Climbing gear - 2000$
- Camping gear - 1000$
- Cycling gear - 1000$
- Motorcycle - 1000$
- Eating out/ drinking - 3000$
However i dont spend enough on the following
- Travelling
- TV, Computer or other electronics
- New Car
1 comment:
Thats a nice snapshot of your finances. Per my thoughts, you should strike a nice balance between immediate spending for quality life and becoming a millionaire. At the same time, allow for the inflation to derive the time value of the "one million" in seven years. Keywords would be systematic and continual investments in growing markets like India and Australia, diversified portfolio which should include real estate as a key investment, multiple income possibilities and rotation of investment instruments. I would create 4 portfolios - retirement investment (which is of course taken care of by 401K), growth portfolio for lifestyle management (aggressive to medium risk), emergency funds portfolio for rainy days (slow growth, conservative style) and family quality life improvement portfolio (low to medium risk but continuous cycles which also involves contributions from your family). Although the start would be slow eventually you need your net worth to be one million not the cash in hand.
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