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A lumpsum is a single investment made once, then left to compound. Use this when you already hold the money — a bonus, a maturity, the sale of an asset — rather than investing from monthly income.
The full amount is invested on day one and stays invested for the whole period, with returns compounded annually at the rate you set. No withdrawals are made in between.
after 10 years
Illustration only, based on the assumptions you enter. Not a projection or guarantee of returns. Does not account for taxes, exit loads or expenses.
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Putting a large amount in on a single day carries timing risk. Talk to us about whether to invest it at once, stagger it through an STP, or split it across categories. Send your figures and we will take it from there.
A lumpsum investment compounds on itself. Year one earns a return on your capital; year two earns a return on the capital plus year one's growth, and so on. That is why the curve is flat at first and steepens later, and why the period matters more than most people expect.
FV = P × (1 + r)n
P is your investment, r is the annual return you expect, and n is the number of years. The calculator compounds annually. Actual Mutual Fund returns do not arrive in neat yearly steps, so treat the year-by-year table as a smooth illustration of a path that will be far bumpier in practice.
The honest answer is that it depends on where the money is right now. If it is already sitting in your bank account, it is exposed to inflation rather than the market, and staying out has its own cost. If it is arriving monthly from salary, a SIP is the natural route.
The real risk with a lumpsum is timing. Invest everything the week before a sharp correction and you spend a long time recovering, even if the eventual return is fine. Many investors reduce that risk with a Systematic Transfer Plan: park the money in a liquid or ultra-short debt scheme and move a fixed amount into equity every month over six to twelve months. You keep some return on the parked portion while spreading your entry.
Nidhish Investments, founded by Nimesh Vala, is an AMFI-registered Mutual Fund Distributor and an APMI-registered PMS Distributor working with families across Gujarat. We distribute three categories of SEBI-regulated products, and the right one depends on the capital you are working with and the risk you can carry.
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Professionally managed, SEBI-regulated pooled investments across equity, debt and hybrid categories. You can start with a small monthly SIP and stop, pause or redeem when you need to.
Start from ₹500 a month
About Mutual Funds →Newer category
A SEBI category positioned between Mutual Funds and PMS. SIF strategies have wider freedom in how they are run, including the use of derivatives, and carry higher risk than conventional Mutual Funds.
Minimum ₹10 lakh
About SIF →Larger portfolios
Securities are held in your own demat account and managed on your behalf by a SEBI-registered portfolio manager, against a defined strategy rather than a pooled scheme.
Minimum ₹50 lakh
About PMS →In one specific way, yes: your entire amount enters the market on a single day, so the level of the market on that day matters a great deal. A SIP spreads entry across many dates. Over long periods the difference narrows, but the first two or three years can feel very different.
A Systematic Transfer Plan parks your lumpsum in a debt scheme and moves a fixed amount into an equity scheme every month. It reduces the risk of investing everything at a market peak, at the cost of leaving part of the money in a lower-return scheme for a while. It suits large amounts and nervous investors.
Annual compounding is the convention for reporting Mutual Fund returns and keeps the year-by-year table readable. The difference against monthly compounding at the same nominal rate is small relative to the uncertainty in the return assumption itself.
Yes, open-ended Mutual Funds are liquid and you can redeem units on any business day. The calculator assumes you do not, because each withdrawal removes capital that would otherwise have compounded. If you plan to draw a regular income instead, use the SWP Calculator.
The same discipline applies as with a SIP: the rate is your assumption. Equity has historically delivered higher long-run returns than debt in India, with far more volatility along the way. Enter a rate you can defend, then check whether the plan still works at a rate three or four percentage points lower.
Statutory disclosures and risk disclaimer
Mutual Fund investments are subject to market risks, read all scheme related documents carefully.
Nidhish Investments is an AMFI-registered Mutual Fund Distributor holding ARN-364347, and an APMI-registered Portfolio Management Services Distributor holding APRN-10163. We act solely as a distributor of investment products. We are not registered with SEBI as an Investment Adviser and do not provide investment advice, financial planning or portfolio management services.
This calculator is provided for illustration only. It uses the assumptions you enter and does not constitute a projection or guarantee of returns. It does not account for taxes, exit loads, expenses or changes in regulation. Past performance of any scheme, strategy or portfolio manager is not indicative of future results, and no returns are assured or guaranteed.
As a distributor, Nidhish Investments receives commission or brokerage from Asset Management Companies and portfolio managers on investments made through us. Details of commission earned on any product will be disclosed to you on request. Investors are advised to consult their own tax and legal professionals before investing. Registration status can be independently verified on the AMFI and APMI websites.