Investment?
June 20, 2009 by admin
Filed under Investment
I need to set up a policy to repay me 100000 in 30 years time. Can anyone advise what the cost is likely to be per month and what they think the best investment would be? Endowment, ISA etc etc.
Financial advisers will advise whatever gives them the better commision I think!
Supra1Q on Sat, 20th Jun 2009 11:35 pm
100000 is not going to have much purchasing power in 30 years. If you meant 1000000, then you are getting there, but even that might not sustain you for the rest of your life in and of itself given inflation/rising costs… If this is for insurance, you should only go for term and invest the difference that you would otherwise have contributed to a whole/variable life policy. Since the S&P over any contiguous 10 years has yielded over 12%, and there are several funds that perform better, if you had say 50,000 to put away now, you would have over $1M in 30 years. Or, if you had 10,000 to invest now and could add 2,000/yr you would get there as well.
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