Neuer von Da
2025-01-21 21:53:07
- #1
If we put everything into repayment for the next 10-15 years, compound interest just has 10-15 years less time to work its magic.
We want to manage the balancing act between owner-occupied residential property (=luxury) and retirement provision (somehow also a luxury if you don't want to work until 67).
The numbers are also reliable. We have been keeping a household book with GnuCash for many years.
Compound interest applies with repayment too, and that is guaranteed.
If everything goes as planned, we will be finished by age 47 or 42 (house).
The bank will have received almost 100k in interest anyway....
But from then on, we will have no 2k monthly payment. Plus max prepayments/year
(Expenses 45k/year)
If you don’t plan on disability insurance (my wife doesn’t, for example, even as a high earner), a term life insurance might be worthwhile.
We have:
Disability insurance for me
Liability insurance
Home contents insurance.
My private/company retirement provision is sufficient to act as term life insurance (wife).
A buffer of just over 100k with which I can invest.
That has to be enough.
So I take compound interest with me, both on the loan and when saving in ETFs.