Insurance
Financial advice or lack of it?
By Patrick Lim  •  May 5, 2009
[caption id="attachment_2390" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Photo by ir0cko"]Photo by ir0cko[/caption] This week, I met up with a young couple. and their latest family member was a boy just delivered some months earlier. In reviewing their insurance portfolio, the integrated shield plan recommended by their financial adviser was Aviva's myshield with myshield plus rider. However, one of the biggest gaps uncovered was a lack of disability income plans for both husband and wife. As this family has chosen Aviva's integrated shield combo and full medical underwriting, I was curious as to why they did not consider the other option of moratorium underwriting which is exclusive to Aviva because this option is not available with the other shield providers, namely AIA, great eastern life, NTUC-income and Prudential. What was the answer? Because their financial adviser did not inform them of this other option. huh? Yes, their answer may or may not be surprising but to me, this may be tentamount to incomplete advise as the moratorium option is an important consideration and doubly significant because it is only available from Aviva. and why no recommendation of disability income plans? their financial adviser did not even mention this solution to them. huh? yes, one more louder huh? from me. Read more...
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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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