Insurance
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 [...]
Becoming dependent on company insurance [Insurance]
The loss of employment can be a catastrophobic experience for many. The reason being that many of our mandatory spending depends alot on it. And one big chunk of it is insurance.
You would have bought alot of it in the good times thinking that it can be finance through your CPF and a little cash, [...]
AIA is a valuable asset
When the troubles at AIG blew out of proportions i told alot of friends who were worried that the worst case scenario for AIA holders might not materialize as i believe alot of insurance powerhouses will eye this piece of business as a good addition to their existing empire.
It would seem that Prudential, another favorite [...]
AIG meltdown: Is your AIA policies safe?
By this time it is quite evident that AIG have a massive credit problem and are scrambling to short up its credit lines.
What is concerning Singaporeans are whether their policies are safe.
Patrick Lim from PromiseLand, an IFA house posted abit of guidance on his blog.
In it he mentioned about how this debacle came about and [...]
The lowdown on participating policy
I think for some insurance newbie this word “participating” can be quite intruding. The would rather it be known as insurance policy rather than particpating.I assure you that it is appropriate name for a good reason that not all insurance policy do particpate in a participating fund. Travel insurance is an insurance policy but there [...]
Whole versus term life insurance discussion on Bogleheads forum
Drizzt’s Take:
Still here. Really hope i get an early outprocess for this ICT. If i don’t, then hao you have one less brother liao. This week has been rather okay. But the highlight of the week has to be seeing Shlow make some post here and there in SGFUNDs forum. Whether he is back for [...]
Of Annuities and Policies
I was reading about annuities implementation and was forwarded to REACH the Singapore Government website to voice their view.
Personally i wonder what the fish is that site for and whether any of the comments would be heard. So much post in there that people took time to write will be useless cause its just an [...]
