Can you earn a corpus of Rs 50 crore in 20 years via mutual funds?

Disclaimer: This story is for informational purposes only and should not be taken as investment advice.

When setting financial goals, investors should take into account short term and long-term goals. Short-term goals could be achieved in a span of two years, whereas long term goals may stretch beyond five years.

A new investor with a personal finance goal of Rs 50 crore in 20 years raised a query to ET Mutual Funds on Monday.

“I would like to know how much should I invest through SIPs and in which funds to create a corpus of around Rs 50 crore in a span of 20 years, with moderate risk,” the enquiry read.

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The expert who responded to the query called the goal ‘unrealistic’.

“Assuming an annual return of 12 per cent, you have to invest around Rs 5 lakh every month through SIPs for 20 years to create a corpus of Rs 50 crore. You might have set an unrealistic goal for yourself. You can try to quantify your various financial goals to get a realistic target corpus, and launch an investment plan to achieve it,” the response read.

While investing in mutual funds is often a sought out investment for its tax saving benefits, it may still attract some amount of tax. The different kinds of tax saving mutual funds can be open-ended, debt/income funds, liquid funds, equity growth and balanced funds.

Though investors will save a grave deal on taxes by investing in these funds, they may still have to pay taxes as applicable.

No tax is levied on long-term capital gains or for those equity mutual fund units that are being held for more than a year.

The ‘best mutual funds’ for the month of December were listed out in an earlier report by ET.

They were as follows:

• SBI Bluechip
• HDFC Balanced Fund
• Aditya Birla Sun Life Top 100
• SBI Magnum Multicap Fund
• Mirae Asset Emerging Bluechip Fund
• L&T India Value Fund

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• 10 things to note for filing income tax on mutual fund investments

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