Why your bonus is disappearing (the hidden investment mistake)

Every year, Indians get a bonus and do the exact same thing — they let it sit in their salary account, losing money to inflation and taxes.

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Within six months, that bonus is gone. Not spent on a vacation or a car — just eroded away because it wasn't working for them.

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Here's the move: the day your bonus hits, move seventy percent of it into an ELSS mutual fund. You save tax, you build wealth, and you don't touch it for three years.

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The remaining thirty percent? Split it between a short-term FD for emergencies and a gold SIP for portfolio balance. That's it.

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In five years, while your friends wonder where their bonuses went, you'll have turned five bonuses into almost one crore rupees.

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