Personal Finance - Someone please help me formulate a proper investment strategy!!?

Question

HEy will someone suggest a proper investment policy for someone like me who has started working only about 2 months ago....i can invest upto 6K every month....but intend to take a break from work for about 2 years to finish my masters...

Trying to help dad in financing his dream home is another objective...which would call for a loan of about 5-8 Lacs and is hence a purely ambitious one considering the present scenario....

Ive been doing some research on this as well...Someone recommended Franklin Templeton SIP to start with but i thought why not diversify...I can take some risks wrt the investments i make....my priorities are mainly long term but i can take a few risks too...

I am pretty amateur to all this so maynot know all the jargons...i hope ppl can still understand what i intend to say....

I also want to know how much returns can i expect from the various offerings currently available....

Hope someone would help me out with this....

Thanks in advance,
Rajit

Answer 1

Some people will tell you to invest in real estate. You really need to know the marketplace, which is constantly changing. You also need a good realestate lawyer when you buy or sell.

I suggest instead that you look at the stock market. You can get a lot of information on the internet and at the library. You need to follow a few rules.

1) Invest in high quality stocks and no-load mutual funds.
2) Diversify. (you are already aware of this one)
3) Avoid "penny stocks" .
4) Be patient

Answer 2

I'd like to help but there are more questions than answers. You say 6k to invest but you'll be going to school in 2 yrs? If the money needs to be there, you might stay in a good money market. Yahoo Finance(no, I don't work for them) has some great, free tools available. Do some research there, read some articles about investing. I'm sure there's plenty of financial planners that would like to help but you'll save a bundle if you do it yourself. Pick a fund company with no-load funds-funds are easier than stocks. Pick 3 to 4 funds that have nice medium returns and go back 10 years. 8-12% over time is reasonable
Don't forget the risk return rule-as return goes up, so does risk!

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Answer 4

in case you're an concepts-blowing gamble taker, look on the inventory marketplace. purchase some shares of companies with a top historic previous, and companies that look like they're going to least puzzling be going up. this shouldn't make you a millionaire over night time, regardless of the reality that ultimately it ought to take place. in case you %. to be extra advantageous delicate, attempting removing a private loan for possibly 20K and purchase an area of abode for 70K. you ought to then hire it out to tenants for seven-hundred-1000 funds a month, and your person loan funds could desire to least puzzling be around one hundred-200 a month if complete desirable. as right now by way of fact the 20K is paid off and additionally you're thoroughly happy alongside which includes your earnings, sell the place of abode for fifty-70K. somebody else regarded gold, that could additionally be a brilliant long-term investment.