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Old 20-01-2015, 07:44 PM
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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?
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.
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