Early Starter
Delayed Starter
Cost of delay = ₹3.54 crores
Person A has 3.4 times more wealth than Person B with the same investment.
Imagine two friends, Person A and Person B. Both dream of being financially free at 60 — but they make different choices.
Person A starts early. At age 25, he starts a SIP of ₹10,000 every month. A keeps doing this for 10 years only (till age 35). Total money invested = ₹12 lakhs. Then A stops, but doesn’t withdraw the money. By the time A is 60, having average return of 13% per year, the investment value has grown to ₹5.02 crores.
Person B waits for 10 years. B starts at age 35 with the same SIP of ₹10,000 a month for 10 years (same ₹12 lakhs) with 13% per year returns. But when B reaches the age of 60, he has only ₹1.48 crores.
Both put in the same money for the same time - ₹12 lakhs for 10 years.
But A has ₹3.5 crores more!
Why? Because A started earlier, so his portfolio had 10 extra years to compound.
This is called the cost of delay — waiting costs you big time.
Moral: Don’t wait. The earlier you start investing, the bigger your investment portfolio will be.
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