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Ricky Chan

06 Nov 2024

Adulting

When people talk about emergency fund, what do you consider?

Personally, I would tier it. When I don’t have enough, I target 6 months of expenses.
When I reach 6 months, I will push it to 12 months of expenses.

Once I reach 12 months expenses, I will target 12 months income which includes CPF contributions. I do not have debts and housing loan anymore so the CPF portion is a moat point.

I like to know how others do it.

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Good job, now you need to make these funds work harder for you

It will vary for individuals as different people has different committment. Generally, most people will target 6-12 months expenses. For me, I am trying to achieve 12 months of expenses + regularly setting aside another sum of fund together with my siblings as both of our parents are not covered by insurances, thus we need to buffer more!

For me, I have 12 months of expenses ready to withdraw for emergency funds.

Hi, i would recommend setting a sum aside for emergency first then using the remaining to invest. th...

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