What is the ideal amount to invest?

If you’re ready to take your first steps as an investor, you can always start by putting a small sum of money into an investment plan. Such a plan enables you to invest a fixed amount of your choice at regular intervals.

You make purchases and payments from your current account (virtually) every day. If you decide to invest your spare change, what you spend is rounded up to the nearest euro. Once your roundups reach 10 euros, we put them into an investment plan for you, meaning you invest effortlessly without it having any noticeable impact on your budget.

• You can start investing from as little as 25 euros a month – you can also adjust the size of future deposits and pause, restart or stop your plan at any time.
  
• Professional fund managers spread your money across a mix of investments (e.g., shares, bonds, etc.).
• Diversified investing, both in terms of the funds and time, ensures that the risk is also more diversified.

With a KBC Investment Plan, you don’t have to actively track the stock market yourself and also avoid being unnerved by unpredictable volatility in the stock market. This is because specialised fund managers do the complicated work of actively managing your fund. And when you put money into your investment plan each month over a long period of time, you always end up investing at average prices. Putting a modest amount of money into the KBC Investment Plan each month enables you to start small and so help you overcome your initial hesitation.

• As you’re investing money you don't need in the near future, it's best to establish a savings buffer first and then estimate how much money you can do without each month. Even if it’s not much (to start off with), investing a small amount regularly can grow into a large sum over time.
• Take your time, investing is something you do for the long term. The more time you have, the longer you can make your money work for you.
• The interest-on-interest effect (also known as the ‘capitalisation effect’) means that the potential return on your investment is added to the capital so that it too can generate a return. The earlier you start and the longer you invest, the greater that effect will be and the more your assets can grow.
• You don't pay anything extra apart from the usual charges for the investment funds selected.

Prefer to talk to a KBC staff member first and discuss the ideal approach for you? Contact KBC Live or arrange a meeting for personal advice.