For example, if your monthly
expense is Rs 50,000 today for a 40-year-old person, the future value of
the same amount at 7% inflation would be Rs 1,93,484 after 20 years, that
is, at the age of his retirement. This works out to having a corpus of Rs
4,64,36,214 for the next 25 years (considering that the average lifespan
is 85 years),''
Apart from the retirement corpus, you must
have a 5-10 lakh invested in short-term funds or fixed deposit for
medical needs along with this also create a corpus for 3-6 months of
expenses in cash deposits or liquid funds.