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If you are not married to a Thai, you will need to show an income of 800,000 Baht per year to qualify for your retirement visa. This works out at 66,666 Baht per month. I think you will agree that this is not a great amount of money.
If you are retired, your assets (in another country) should be as safe as possible, making income (not in the stock market). To stay on the safe side, I think you can only garauntee a return of 5% a year.
At an exchange rate of 40 Bt to US$1, then 800,000 Bt is = US$20,000.
If US$20,000 is equal to 5% of investment, then you need US$400,000.
If you are older, say in you fifties and have nobody to look after, after you die; then you won't need as much because you can start spending the principal ie. spend your last dollar on your coffin.
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