Saving from our monthly income proves to be a challenge, considering the myriad expenses some of which are necessary, while the others are for luxury. A Systematic Income Plan encourages an individual to keep aside a certain, be it even small ,sum of money, enabling the investor to build a corpus through forced savings. It is a recurring investment of a certain amount and date of the month, as per the investor’s choice.
The payment towards an SIP can be made online through auto-debit, NEFT, Internet Banking and UPI. The auto-debit option enables investors to choose the date of debit according to their convenience, so that the chosen SIP amount is automatically debited on the selected date. For instance, if the chosen date is 15th, the SIP amount will be auto-debited on the 15th of every month. It saves them from the hassle of making online payments themselves. All an investor has to do is to choose a date when they are sure that there will be sufficient funds in the bank account to prevent an auto-debit failure. Insufficient balance in the bank account at the time of auto-debit leads to the bank charging a hefty penalty.
When the SIP amount is paid, the fund house allocates a specific number of units of the mutual fund scheme as chosen by the investor, as determined by the prevailing NAV (Net Asset Value) of the scheme. The scheme units increase with every SIP installment. The downward the market performance, the more will be the units that the investor will be able to buy.
SIP also offers investors the flexibility to increase the investment amount to earn additional units and thereby earn better returns.
