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Originally Posted by Unregistered
46/44, married grad couple, two children in sec school.
$170k pa combined.
Lives in a 3 bedroom condo, paid up. Latest valuation done $1.7m.
Cash and CPF, $0.6m.
Total net worth $2.3m.
How are we doing?
Is our net worth below average among grad couples in our age group?
Are we underperforming?
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You are doing very well indeed. When your children starts to work and get married, you can downgrade to a one bedroom condo unit. After selling your current condo to the small unit and paying in full, you should have cash in hand of at least $1m. For example, if you sell your current condo at $1.7m and then you buy the smaller condo at $700k, you have $1m in hand.
You then invest the $1m cash in good quality blue chips that give you 6% pa dividend yield. So you get $60k pa in dividends. If each of your children gives you $1k pm, you will get $2k pm or $24k pa. When you reach 65, you and wife will get $3k pm in total (assuming the min sum goes higher and hence payout is higher) or $36k pa. So you get in total $120k pa of passive income. So, you are retirement ready. Congratulations.