Insurance
uberrima fides
By Patrick Lim  •  September 23, 2011
during my monthly life insurance training class yesterday, one of my advisors raised a concern on his existing client, a family who incepted a shield plan plus rider some time back, but not from him. what is my advisor's concern? during a very recent meeting with his client, the head of the household (in this case, the husband) disclosed that at the time of application of their shield plan plus rider, his cholesterol levels were not in the normal or healthy range and his wife had raised blood pressure or hypertension which were omitted in the application form. my comments: without any hesitation, my advice is for my advisor to go back quickly to the family and explain that all insurance contracts are based on the principle of uberrima fides* or utmost good faith and the other on insurability. * taken from wikipedia Uberrima fides (sometimes seen in its genitive ......
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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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