Are we on the right track?

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Age:45
Spouse’s/Partner's age:35

Annual gross income from employment or profession: 105000 (+bonus 15000)
Annual gross income of spouse: 0 (taking a break to be with our kids, will probably be back on some cca 30-40k in couple of years)
Monthly take-home pay: 5400 (after deducting 5% for pension (matched by the company) and health insurance)

Type of employment: private, IT, stable

In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving?

Saving

Rough estimate of value of home: 360000
Amount outstanding on your mortgage: 245000
What interest rate are you paying? 2.15% (fixed, 4 more years with AIB)

Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc
None.

Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes
If not, what is the balance on your credit card? n/a

Savings and investments:
Pension (through an employer) – 90k (plan is to continue with 5% matched by employer).
Cash – 15k + 10k (first kid fund) + 3k (second kid fund, at the moment both child allowances are filling this until both kids have 10k and then we will use allowances to speed up mortgage)
Gold – 35k
Crypto – 20k

Do you have a pension scheme?
Yes.

Ages of children:
2 kids (1 and 4)

Life insurance:
Yes, 4 times annual salary

What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
I’m aware that I’m behind the plan because I started late but am feeling confident at the moment with excellent employer. Ideally, I would like to start slowing down 15 years from now (from 60), maybe working part-time as a consultant or similar. I’m planning to keep topping up the mortgage and pension. Once mortgage is gone that monthly amount will probably be redirected to kids' college/business/down payment fund.
What would be the best course of action to take in order to drive us to safe retirement (in some 15-20 years)? I reckon we will need somewhere around 2500e per month (in today's money) so it should be doable?
 
First thought: Sell the gold, crypto and kids funds, reduce the mortgage.

Second thought: The 4 year fix is worth keeping. Sell the gold and crypto, top up the kids funds. When the fix is up, sell the funds and reduce the mortgage.
 
You have about 20 years left on your mortgage, and by then the oldest will probably be finished college and the youngest a couple of years in. So retiring in 15-20 years puts you right bang in the middle of the college years, with a mortgage.

I agree with cremeegg, use their college funds to pay down the mortgage faster, probably can’t do this for 4 years. If you are mortgage free in 15 years, you can consider paying for college from your income at the time.

You will need to consider you and your spouses pensions to build that retirement fund, but you still have an expensive 15 years ahead of you. With your wife not working your family has an average income so it is hard to do everything without sacrificing something now for the next 15 years.

I would say your wife would need to go back to full time work to start funding the retirement funds, she has another 30 years she can work and build up her retirement fund.

Don’t get into debt, you are doing great on that.
Reduce the mortgage with savings
Start building both pensions slowly as mortgage reduces
Enjoy the next 15 years with the kids, you never know what the future holds. Which is probably why your wife is not working currently
 
Thank you both! I planned to stay with AIB for 4 more years and to try to lower the mortgage at the end with the lump sum, although not quite sure what to liquidate. I don't quite like the idea to sell gold and crypto but the cash will be used for sure.
Enjoy the next 15 years with the kids, you never know what the future holds.
Thank you, this is exactly how we feel about it.
 
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