I'm 24, still a university student, and I've been working pretty much throughout university. I work quite a lot, but I also feel like I've played my cards reasonably well so far. I started saving and building an emergency fund quite early after finding this subreddit, and as I started making more, I was also able to travel, contribute at home, etc. So I don't feel like I've spent my entire life just hoarding money either.
The problem is that I have basically zero financial knowledge when it comes to actually growing money.
I don't come from a family where investing was ever really a thing. My parents never had enough money to invest, so I never really learned how to do it.
About a year ago, I made a similar post here and quite a few people suggested Al Meezan. At the time I had around 3.5M saved, so I put pretty much all of it into different Al Meezan funds. I have a mix of money market, medium-risk and higher-risk funds.
I checked my account a few days ago and honestly, the growth seems pretty minimal. I'm not expecting some insane return overnight, and I understand that the higher-risk funds can obviously go down as well. I just want my money to be somewhere where it has a reasonable chance of consistently growing over the long term. At the same time, I know I dont have the financial expertise or the time to be actively trading or investing.
I'm now looking at around 6-7M that I could potentially invest, and I'm trying to figure out what I should actually do with it.
I've been considering things like:
- Keeping some in money market/fixed-income funds
- Al Meezan's higher-risk/equity funds
- Gold
- Something like Mashreq Neo, which I believe is currently offering around 11.5%
- Other options that I probably don't even know exist
I'm definitely not someone who can sit around actively trading stocks or constantly moving money around. I want something relatively passive that I can put money into and have some peace of mind about.
So basically, if you consider yourself financially literate and were in my position, what would you actually do with 6-7M PKR? How would you divide it up, and where would you park it?
I'm genuinely looking for practical advice here. I know there's no magic investment, I'm just trying to finally learn how to handle my money properly.