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Education Planning Calculator

The Education Planning Calculator is a specialized tool designed to help parents, guardians, and future students estimate the amount of money they need to save for higher education expenses. Given the rising cost of education, planning in advance can help secure a brighter future without financial strain. The Education Planning Calculator factors in important variables such as current savings, expected inflation in education costs, estimated rate of return, and the years remaining until enrollment to provide a realistic savings goal.

This calculator can break down complex projections into simple terms, showing you how much you need to invest regularly to reach your target amount. By using a planned approach, this tool can help you account for tuition fees, living expenses, and other educational costs, minimizing the risk of student debt. The result is a structured plan that can be adjusted over time, helping you stay on track as education costs change.

Advantages of Using an Education Planning Calculator

Realistic Savings Goals: It provides an accurate estimate of the funds required, making it easier to set achievable savings targets for your child’s education.
Early Preparation: The calculator encourages parents and students to start saving early, allowing more time for compound interest to grow their investments.
Accounts for Inflation: It considers the expected increase in education costs, ensuring that your savings plan aligns with real-world expenses.
Flexible Investment Strategies: By adjusting variables like the rate of return, it helps you choose an investment strategy that matches your risk tolerance and financial goals.
Reduces Financial Stress: With a clear savings roadmap, it minimizes the financial burden of education, helping to avoid last-minute loans or compromises on quality.

What is Tikona Capital?

Tikona Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd is a wealth management firm focused on providing Wealth Management Services, driven by in-depth research, professional network, and strong conviction to C-suite executives, Working professionals, HNIs. Dealing in Mutual funds, Unlisted opportunities, Pre-IPO, differentiated AIFs and PMS and IPO advisory. Where investment objective is centered around client financial well-being, realistic data analysis, and extensive in-house research. Tikona Capital Proprietor Sumit Poddar also holds a SEBI Registered Research Analyst building Equity Model Portfolio. At Tikona, our belief is driven by creating finite solutions in an environment of infinite availability and volatility of financial products. Triangle in our logo represents the finite filtering out unknowable edges from the circle-the ultimate unknowability of nature. Sometimes it's not about money but the process of managing the money.
Who is the founder at Tikona Capital ?

Sumit Poddar, the founder of Tikona Capital, has more than two decades of experience in advisory, Equities, Investments, and Portfolio Management, working as a Fund Manager and Head of Equities with top institutions of the country like Aditya Birla Sunlife, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance, and Tata Consultancy Services. He has managed more than 2,000 Cr of AUM with the above financial organizations. Education - He is an All India Rank holder in Chartered Accountancy, having completed CFA level 2 and a Bachelor of Commerce from Mumbai University. During his tenure with the above institutions, he established his wealth-creation skills by formulating and building stock portfolios based on top-down and bottom-up stock-picking strategies to achieve competitive, sustainable returns. Stock selection and allocation to the portfolio are driven by deep industry/company research, competitive analysis, and due consideration of global and domestic macroeconomics, interest rate environments, and differentiating earnings growth in such environments. He has managed portfolios including large-cap funds, midcap funds, balanced funds, absolute return funds, and the highest NAV funds. He managed the Aditya Birla Sunlife Insurance-Value and Momentum fund, which delivered the highest return in FY17, outperforming the small-cap and midcap funds in mutual funds or the insurance industry, more than doubling the AUM of the fund. Learning from experienced professionals and investment gurus across the span, some of whom are his mentors, and applying his solid foundational skills and tricky figure crunching and analytical talents to uncover investment possibilities. His strength is years of experience discovering not-so-fashionable investment ideas and building a formidable exposure to gain in multiples. Most of these ideas have had a base of solid fundamentals, differentiated business models, and capable management.
How does Tikona Capital recommend stocks, a set of stocks, or a model portfolio?

At Tikona, we believe that a realistic assessment of our life liabilities and, thereby, the right solution of cash flows with patience can create generous wealth over the life cycle. Our products are driven by our investment philosophy of building long-term wealth by investing in high-quality businesses at reasonable relative valuations. Portfolios in our products are built after due consideration to: BUSINESS: Sector opportunity, growth drivers, profitability enablers, capital efficiency MANAGEMENT: Healthy Return on Equity with low leverage, efficient capital allocation, and leadership to create differentiation VALUATIONS: Reasonable relative valuations giving due consideration to business dynamics and management quality
How does Tikona Capital create my financial plan?

Our planners collect important information like Age, Income, Dependants, Assets, Liabilities, etc., and asses the required key elements for planning. Comprehensive shall include goal planning, financial planning, and asset allocation.
What are your fees for small cases?

The recommended model portfolios have nominal fees. For latest updates check tikonacapital.smallcase.com for latest pricing and offers for you ! Investors looking for tailor-made wealth creation solutions may contact us at sumitpoddar@tikonacapital.com
Is Tikona Capital Regulated?

Tikona Capital Proprietor Sumit Poddar is a SEBI Registered Research Analyst (INH000009807). Tikona Capital Advisors Pvt Ltd is a separately identified unit for distribution.
What is the range of services that we offer?

We provide Wealth Management Services, dealing in Mutual funds, Unlisted opportunities, Pre-IPO, differentiated AIFs and PMS and IPO advisory. We are driven by in-depth research, professional network, and strong conviction to C-suite executives, Working professionals, HNIs and UHNIs. Model portfolios at Smallcase - tikonacapital.smallcase.com Equity Model Portfolio - tikonacapital/equity-model-portfolio Financial Planning - tikonacapital/financial-planning
Why Tikona Capital and not your local advisor?

With Tikona Capital, you can be confident that the investment dealings and recommendations will be conflict-free and only in the interest of achieving your goals. The founder has over 20 years of experience in the equity fund management, insurance, and financial products space. Our experience, qualifications & skills enable us to understand you and your needs and then offer you the right strategies & solutions to achieve your goals.
What documentation is mandatory to become a Tikona Capital client?

If you have a trading and demat account with one of the supported brokers, you can start investing in smallcases. By clicking on 'Buy smallcase or 'Login', you can view the supported brokers and login with the respective credentials. One time Documentation with a simple process of a few clicks will be taken care of. The funds from your broker account would be used for investing in smallcases. If you don't have a broker account, many brokers offer the online opening of accounts. the list of brokers you can have a brokerage account with: Alice Blue, Motilal Oswal, FundzBazar, Edelweiss, 5paisa, HDFC Sec, Upstox, Groww, Angel One, Axis Direct, Dhan, ICICIdirect, IIFL Sec, Kotak Sec, Trustline, Zerodha. If you are looking for a customized solution, we will help you open an account and provide advisory services to suit your needs. Send your details at contact@tikonacapital.com to discuss further.
What is our investment philosophy?

We create investment solutions and model portfolios to help our customers accomplish their financial goals. At Tikona, we believe that a realistic assessment of our life liabilities and, thereby, the right solution of cash flows with patience can create generous wealth over our life cycle. As a result of our investment philosophy, we emphasize high-quality companies with the potential for long-term customer success. We are committed to achieving superior risk-adjusted returns because we believe risk management by elimination is essential to our investing strategy. We allocate capital based on fundamentals and prefer to invest in firms focused on value and growth. Thus, our investment philosophy is to build wealth by investing in high-quality businesses at reasonable relative valuations that offer sustainable and compounded risk-adjusted returns with a concentrated exposur