Consumer Spending Trends in China – 2010
Image by Newton Free Library via Flickr A remiser sent an article to me which i’d thought it was quite insightful into the Chinese economy. It talks about top consumer spending trends in China last year. See this blog post.
A Good Deal? – Incomeshield Plan Upgrade with NO underwriting
Recently, NTUC has launched a promotion on a Free upgrade for their IncomeShield Plan. You can find more about it here. Mike has also blogged about it briefly here with a summary. Well, as with all good deals, it spurred me on to find out more so I emailed by financial advisor about it. This [...]
Planning early for life coverage
Image via Wikipedia Thought this was an excellent article that was published on Singapore Business Times on16 Feb by Quah Chin Chin. I’d thought it’s very relevant to one of the themes of my blog so to sharethis with you. BUYING a life insurance policy is a crucial step in financial planning. Such insurance is [...]
Endowment Plans for U?
I think Mike’s post on Endowment Plans was excellent in comparing yield-to-maturity across different plans offered by different providers. Would be a shame if I did not share this information. I do not really advocate endowment plans because of the cost involved and the opportunity costs of investing the money elsewhere. To me, it is [...]
Is NTUC Income Capital Plus policy for you?
In Mike Dirnt’s blog in which I have been constantly following, he mentioned about the recent NTUC Income Capital Plus. It does seem attractive to have a high guaranteed interest rate of return this way and in this difficult period, there are a lot of people who will jump on this boat as mentioned in [...]
