Lever three . flexibility . and the three rules that fall out of all of it
A goal whose date can bend can hold more equity than one that cannot. Flexibility is the cheapest risk capacity you own.
01
Solve for the date, not the chart.
Duration picks the vehicle before any return number gets a vote. Three years out is a debt problem. Twenty years out is an equity one. Same investor, opposite answers.
02
Inflate the target first. Size the SIP second.
A goal costed at today's price is already short. Push it forward at the inflation that actually applies to it, school fees and healthcare run hotter than the index, then back out the monthly.
03
Let flexibility buy your equity.
A hard deadline forces you to de-risk early and accept a smaller number. A goal that can slip a year or two can sit in equity longer and let compounding finish the job.
Pick the fund last. The goal already told you almost everything that matters. How long. How much. And how much it can bend.
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