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What does a monthly SIP grow into?
Prepared 30 September 2026
SIP returns
What does a monthly SIP grow into?
Project a monthly investment forward and see how much of the final corpus is your money versus compounding.
Corpus after 20 years
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Indian equity funds have returned roughly 11–13% over long periods. Anything above 15% is optimistic.
Over this horizon your own contributions still make up most of the corpus. Compounding needs more time to overtake them.
What this assumes
- Instalment paid
- Start of each month
- Compounding
- Monthly
- Returns
- Constant, as you set them
- Step-up applied
- Once every 12 months
What it does not account for
- Exit load, which most equity schemes charge on units redeemed within a year.
- Capital gains tax. Long-term equity gains above ₹1.25 lakh a year are taxed at 12.5%.
- The expense ratio, if you enter a gross return figure rather than a net one.
- Sequence of returns. Real markets deliver the same average through a very different path, and the path is what tests you.
Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks. Read all scheme related documents carefully. Outputs here are illustrations based on the assumptions you set, not projections of any scheme’s performance.
This is an illustration of compound growth under the assumptions shown, not a projection, a forecast or a guarantee of any scheme’s performance. Mutual fund investments are subject to market risks. Read all scheme related documents carefully.
Ramachandran Kothanath is an AMFI Registered Mutual Fund Distributor (ARN-284604), not a SEBI-registered investment adviser. We earn commission from asset management companies on the schemes we distribute. We do not charge you a fee for distribution, and we do not guarantee returns. Insurance is distributed under a separate IRDA registration.
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