14/09/2021
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Providing children the ideal opportunity for learning and development is any parentโs priority. And as the cost of education goes on rising each day, it is necessary to invest in a savings plan that offers sufficient funds to meet the expenses at key educational milestones in their lives.
Smart parents know how to plan early and take advantage of compounding interest.
== Benefits of Investing Early In A Child Education Plan ==
1. Cost of Education Is Increasing
- The fees for higher education are becoming increasingly unaffordable, such that you may have to avail a loan to meet your child's education needs. If you have wisely started investing in a child plan at an early age, then the investment sum gathered at the time of maturity will be adequate to meet the inflated fees of colleges.
2. Avoid Additional Loans
- The most common way to arrange funds for expensive degrees is an educational loan. If youโre a young parent, you still might yourself be paying your education loans right now. Why take up additional liability? Your savings/investment that you start doing today will help you and your child the most in the future.
3. Investment and Protection:
- Through an endowment plan for child education, you get the dual benefits of insurance and investments. If the parent purchasing the child plan is not around anymore, then the insurance company pays a sum assured immediately and periodic annual pay-outs until the end of the policy tenure. These pay-outs are sufficient to pay your child's school fees in your absence.
4. Tax Benefits
- The premium paid is tax exempted unlike fixed deposits or equity shares which attract a long-term capital gains tax.
The formula to know how much to save, it's about 5% of your monthly income which you should save.
To sum it up, make sure you invest early in a child education plan. Take the initiative and sit down with your advisor to check with them if there are any good education savings plans out there. Start investing early, even if it is a small amount it doesn't matter. At least you get started.
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