Insurance

AIA taking steps to stop poaching of Agents

Take a look at this article. I Got it off Patrick Lim’s blog.
If you are an insurance agent would you be enticed by these perks?
Aug 18, 2010
AIA pulls out all stops to plug manpower leak
Hit by staff exodus, insurer goes on ‘retaliation’ drive
By Lorna Tan, Senior Correspondent
INSURER AIA is countering poaching [...]


Decreasing Term Life Insurance can be your low cost insurance solution

Insuring so that your dependents not able to pay huge financial burden can be cheaper than you realise
As a working adult aged 20-35, some of the hardest financial risks you are likely to face is:What if you are not around leaving your wife and kids to pay for the biggest financial burden, your mortgage.
One can [...]


Why i upgraded my Aviva SAF Group Term Insurance

I think alot of my NS friends or friends, colleagues who have been to NS will have this insurance policy.
That is usually bought during NS time to insure for something, that something you are not sure off since you are 18 and you really don’t know much about insurance.
Now come late adult hood, i hear [...]


Words from an actual insurance agent:The industry is flawed?

Folks around here would know that i am a proponent of Term Insurance over Whole Life for most cases. You can read my insurance philosophy which i have written 3 years ago here.
Today i cam across this mail to Mr Tan Kin Lian on his site. It simply states that if you are an insurance [...]


Another angle insurance agent could lie to you of distribution cost

Mr Tan Kin Lian explain to you again on distribution cost and how much it amounts to. Moral of the story is to know your product and minimize the cost.
The benefit illustration of a life insurance policy showed the distribution cost to be 7.3% of the total premium paid over 25 years. If [...]


Improvements to Aviva’s MyShield and MyShield Plus:What it means for me

Disclosure: I am covered under Aviva
Its amazing that i get more info from the blog world and more timely at that about changes to my own insurance. Martin over at Den of the Lion Investor blog about the new changes to Aviva’s MyShield and its Plus plans. [Article here >>]
On the onset what caught my [...]


Achieve Top Position in Insurance

Nice post here from Mr Tan Kin Lian on his view about gaining sales in the insurance industry:
Life insurance companies compete yearly to achieve the top position in life insurance sales. This is an indicator  of success and the productivity of the sales force. Several decades ago, the competition was based on [...]


Insurance:AXA Early payout life enhancer looks good

I got wind from Patrick Lim’s site on this insurance policy. From the description it looks like a critical illness plan for a person close to my age (29). 100k for 53 bucks.
What i find interesting is that normally critical illness pays out only when your illness is at a stage where it is a [...]


Personal Finance:The dilemma of a failing kidney

Around 2-3 years ago i got spook into thinking that i am going to suffer from a kidney failure. Truth is, like many medical symptoms, many problems exhibits the same symptoms as kidney problems. Why we go to the doctors to diagnose what we are suffering is because they are train to do that, just [...]


A good explanation on participating fund

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We seldom hear people talk about participating fund, the fund with which the bonus for your life insurance policy is based upon. Here Mr Tan Kin Lian explains in lay man terms on why is there a need for a particpating fund and what it means to you and me:
When [...]


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