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ntuc-income: repricing of growth plan
By Patrick Lim  •  January 6, 2012
this is really fresh from the oven because we have just received an urgent email notification from ntuc-income (at approx 6pm): Dear Valued Partners, Over the last few years, interest rates have declined significantly. 12 months fixed deposit rates are now hovering around 0.4% p.a. compared to 0.9% p.a. 5 years ago. Similarly, 5-year Singapore government bond yields have declined from 3.2% p.a. 5 years ago to 0.9% p.a. today. As a result, it is becoming increasingly challenging to design and price this type of single premium savings plan, such as our Growth Plan. As you know, many of our fellow competitors areno longer selling such plans. We will be _replacing_ thecurrent version of *Growth Plan (GRL3)*with a new revised version. Details of the new version of Growth Plan to replace the current version will be made in a separate announcement. The ......
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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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