Adding time to your investment!

If you invest Rs.5000/- per month for next 20 years at minimum expected return of 10%, then you can accumulate Rs.38.3 lakh at the end of the term. But understand the power of compounding, if you invest the same amount 10 years earlier then you can make around Rs.1.1 crore. That is more than double the corpus. You are not increasing the amount you invest or the returns you seek but simply adding time to your investment.