Insurance
Excuse me, are you an IFA? – Part 4
By Patrick Lim  •  August 3, 2008
Well, this is the final part of expounding on my role and standing as an IFA and it is with humility that I am still in the business because chiefly of God's grace and what I believe to be my clientele's trust in me in looking after their interests and financial well being. Yesterday, I like to believe I not only talk the walk but walk the talk as an IFA in going the extra mile to serve my existing clientele. It was indeed a rather harrowing day because NTUC-Income's Capital Plus product was closing. At the launch of this product on July 18, 2008, the insurer's cap on subscriptions for this product was specified to be $150 million but as of yesterday morning, the monies collected totalled $190 million but out of goodwill, the insurer was prepared to accept further applications up to 5pm on july 31, 2008. Because of this, I called up some of my clients in the morning and early afternoon who had been informed earlier of this product but had not decided and told them I was prepared to personally come and collect their applications as a value add service to them.
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By Patrick Lim
Patrick is an Associate Director with Promiseland. He has more than 20 years of personal investment experience both in stock and shares and unit trusts. In his early years as an investor, he got burnt really bad in the infamous 1987 crash and again during the clob incident. With 2 decades of so-called battle scars behind him, the last few years (since 2003) have been good to him especially with his single country funds doing exceptionally well. On his investing style, he is both a technical analyst and fundamentalist. Patrick view wealth accumulation as part and parcel of the wealth management process but only if one has already executed his/her wealth protection planning on an on-going basis.
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