Then at the end of 6 month or 1 year renew your SIP for another 6 month or 1 year. You need to renew like this till you complete your predetermined long term period. You may think it is an unnecessary paperwork and waste of time. But you will be completely convinced when you have finished reading this article.
Contribution towards Mutual Fund SIP Changes:
How much you are contributing towards MF SIP changes over a period of time.
At the beginning of a career a person will be able to commit for small sum of amount. As he progresses in his career, he or she will be able to increase his contribution. Similarly, when someone reaches a stage where he need to spend more on kid's higher education, daughter's wedding, buying a house or meeting a major financial commitment, it is difficult for him to continue the same amount. So whenever you renew at the end of 6 month or 1 year, you can look at your cash flow position and based on that you can renew for the increased amount or the same amount or the reduced amount.
Portfolio Review:
Also it gives you a chance to review your portfolio with your advisor once in 6 months or 1 year.
The scheme which you have chosen for is performing well when compared to its peers or not? You need to review this periodically. The scheme may turn out to be a laggard. The scheme may be performing well when you have chosen for doing SIP. But over a period of time, it could have derailed from its performance. This is something like our cricket players. They will be in a good form in the game for some period of time. Then they will lose their form after sometime. So you need to periodically check up whether the fund is performing NOW or not. If you are committing for 10 years, then the advisor may not be coming back to you whenever you call him for reviewing your portfolio. If you commit for 6 months or 1 year he or she will be definitely coming to you for renewing. You can have a review with him or her at that time.
When you commit for long term, generally we ignore to review it. It may generate poor returns. You can avoid this by periodic review.
Equity Exposure in Overall Portfolio:
How much equity exposure you can give to your overall portfolio can change the amount of Mutual Fund SIP in equity and debt.
As the age goes up, your ability to take risk comes down. So you need to change your equity mutual fund SIP contribution periodically. How close or distant you are to achieve your financial goals will also decide your equity exposure. If you have got long period to achieve your financial goal then you can have more equity exposure. When you have short period to achieve your financial goal, then you need to reduce your equity exposure. Rebalancing your portfolio based on your predetermined asset allocation will also decide your equity exposure.
All this can change your Mutual Fund SIP amount in equity funds.
So committing a Mutual Fund SIP for long term looks good on paper. For practical reasons we need to commit for short term and renew it at the end of every short term till achieving our financial goals. In this regard, instead of committing a Mutual Fund SIP just like that, having a long term financial plan and committing Mutual Fund SIP based on that plan will be really fruitful. This will make a solid difference in achieving your financial goals.
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