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Anonymous

18 Apr 2019

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Should I clear my study loan first or accumulate wealth from my monthly salary? Currently my take home pay is around 2.6k and I have a 18k of study loan (left 14k now) with an 3% interest. ?

How much should I pay back to the study loan as I’m now repaying $150 per month and save 20% from my pay.

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I think generally prefer not to have debt (though not always the right move). if you plan to invest, then you just need to make sure your investments are getting more than 3%

Henry Hoe Yong Zhi

19 Mar 2019

Music & Audio Technology at Singapore Polytechnic

Always remember that debt is not always bad. If you're taking debt to piss it off on parties and luxury, that is bad debt but if you are holding on to debt and using it to make more money, that is called leveraging.

Study loans are one of those loans that has very low interest rates. Lowest probably being property loans. Every other loans you are going to take later in your life has higher interest rates. Personal loan is about 6% annually and renovation loan about 4-5%. So if you are leverage such cheap loans, why would you want to pay it off fast?

What you want to consider is when you say wealth accumulation, how much are you making? If your ROI is much higher than 3% annually or $540 per year then of course you should not pay off that loan in advance.

If your savings generate a return higher than the 3% interest that you need to pay on your study loa...

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