How I’m making a passive income with just £10 per day

You can start building a passive income stream with an investment of just £10 a day, as Rupert Hargreaves explains in this article.

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I think it’s relatively straightforward to build a passive income stream with just a small daily investment. Today, I’m going to explain how I plan to use this approach to cover some of my monthly spending needs. 

Building a passive income

The first step on a passive income journey is to build a savings pot. The size of savings required depends on your passive income target. Some investors will want to earn a lot of money every month. Others may have a more moderate target.

I’m targeting a monthly income stream of £500. This will cover the majority of my housing costs, which should help me save more in future. 

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With a monthly target of £500, or £6,000 a year, I reckon a savings pot of at least £150,000 is needed to achieve this target.

My figures tell me it may be possible to hit this target with just £10 of investment per day. It won’t happen overnight. But by sticking to a regular investment plan, I think it’s possible to hit this target. 

Building the pot

An investment of £10 a day works out at roughly £3,650 a year. That’s £304 a month. By investing this money in the stock market, I may be able to rapidly hit the £150,000 target required to build a passive income stream. 

You see, over the past 120 years, UK stocks have produced an average annual return of around 7%. Due to the size and length of this study period, I think it’s sensible to rely on this as a possible return target going forward. 

At a compound annual growth rate of 7%, I calculate it’s possible to build a savings pot worth £150k in just 20 years. This is only a rough guide. It may be possible to hit this target sooner if you can save a little bit more every month. 

For example, it may be possible to hit the target within 14 years with an investment of £500 a month. And if you can afford to invest £1,000 a month, it would take less than 10 years, according to my calculations. 

Generating an income

The best way to generate an income on this lump sum may be to buy a basket of high-quality blue-chip stocks. The UK market as a whole currently offers a dividend yield of 3.5%. That would produce a passive income stream of £5,300 a year. 

Some stocks offer dividend yields that are above average. Life insurance group Phoenix and car insurance giant Direct Line both offer dividend yields of between 6% and 9%.

A portfolio of these high-yield stocks could generate a significant level of income on a savings pot of £150,000. 

That’s the strategy I plan to use to make a passive income stream with an investment of just £10 a day. By following a set investment plan, I reckon it’ll be relatively straightforward to hit my passive income target. 

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