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Yes. but first separate what the money is actually for. Typically a remittance funds household expenses, a loan EMI, parents' medical needs, and savings. Whatever is not needed within three years should be invested systematically rather than left accumulating in a savings account where inflation quietly eats it.
Yes. but first separate what the money is actually for. Typically a remittance funds household expenses, a loan EMI, parents' medical needs, and savings. Whatever is not needed within three years should be invested systematically rather than left accumulating in a savings account where inflation quietly eats it.
A wife in Chengannur receives ₹50,000 monthly from her husband in Dammam. Expenses are ₹28,000, EMI ₹12,000. The remaining ₹10,000 has been sitting in savings for four years. ₹4.8 lakh earning about 3 percent. That is ₹4.8 lakh that could have been ₹5.6 lakh in a simple balanced portfolio.
Remittances received in an NRE account belong to the NRI; money transferred to a resident family member's account is theirs to invest as a resident. Systematic investing from a monthly surplus. SIP. suits remittance flows because the amount and timing are regular.
Whose account the money lands in and whose name investments will be in Monthly surplus after all fixed outgoings Reserve of 6 months' expenses, given that the remitter's job abroad can end Whether the remitter has life and health cover Goals: return date, house, children's education
Treating the remittance as permanent. Gulf jobs end. The reserve for a remittance-dependent household should be larger than for a salaried one.
This is the most common financial situation in the state. The pattern that works: a larger-than-usual reserve, then SIPs in the resident spouse's name or joint with the NRI, with nominations set.
Surplus ₹10,000/month. First 10 months build reserve to ₹1 lakh. Then ₹7,000 SIP into an index fund and ₹3,000 into a debt fund. At 9 percent blended over 12 years: roughly ₹25 lakh.
If the husband intends to return within two years and start a business, the surplus may be better held in capital-safe instruments as start-up capital rather than equity.
Map the monthly flow on one page Build the reserve first Start the SIP in the right name with a nominee
What exactly is an SIP? I have ₹50 lakh of Gulf savings. Should I start a business in Kerala? I send money to my parents every month. Is there a better way to organise it?
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