Posted on February 5, 2010 - by La Papillion

Endowment plan option for education fund

Photo by René Ehrhardt

I was here and there discussing endowment plan, as a viable option to save up for child’s education, with a few other bloggers. I had already shared my views in my previous posting here, so I would just like to substantiate with actual benefit illustrations. I would withhold the actual benefit illustrations, but will put up a summary of three companies that my very hardworking girlfriend had put up for me. She did the entire comparison herself, kudos to her!

A few key assumptions:

1. The endowment plan is bought on the life of my hypothetical kid, aged 1 on the next birthday

2. The proposer of the plan is me, aged 33 on my next birthday, non-smoker

3. The plan is bought with a rider, which waives off all future premium in the event that the proposer (aka me) kena death, TPD or CI

4. The plan has a sum assured of 30k over a duration of 20 yrs.

Okay, with the key assumptions laid out, here’s the summary of the three plans that my gf had done up for me. I will mosaic the names of the three companies mentioned. If you need their names, liase with me and I’ll fix you up with my gf. She’s an independent financial advisor, just to sell her koyok here.


Let’s just assume another thing – that the cost of university (local) in the next 20 yrs will be 50k. Actually it’s more like 70k or above, but let’s not debate about this for now. This is how I would plan for my kid: Read more…

Related posts:

1. Endowment Plan with Guaranteed 3.77% IRR
2. Q&A on Traded Endowment Policies (TEPs)
3. Investing in gold, a worthwhile option?