Category Archive: Endowment

Apr
05
2012

Launch of Aviva MyRetirement

Aviva has recently launched its new retirement savings plan, MyRetirement.

MyRetirement is a regular premium endowment plans that gives you a monthly income (min $500/month) for ten years upon your retirement age (choice of 50, 55, 60 or 65) and a lump sum maturity payout thereafter.

Premium terms can be either eight years or up to five years before your selected retirement age. A minimum accumulation phrase of 13 years is required. There is no medical underwriting required.

Based on the benefit illustrations, the yield of the guaranteed monthly income can be as high as 2.38% p.a. with another maturity payout giving the total plan a projected overall yield of 4+% p.a.

For example, a male non-smoker of 30 years of age can expect the following from the plan:

Yearly premiums of $8283 payable for 8 years. (total of $66264 paid)

At age 60, he will get a guaranteed amount of $1000/month for 10 years. (total of $120,000)

At age 70, he will get a projected lump sum maturity amount of $190,409.

From now till 31st May 2012, applicants who take up the MyRetirement plan will get the following freebies from Aviva:

Monthly premiums:

  • at least $500 -> $150 worth Takashimaya Voucher
  • between $500 and $1,000 -> The new iPad 16GB Wi-Fi
  • More than $1,500 -> The new iPad 32GB Wi-Fi+4G

Permanent link to this article: http://www.martinlee.sg/aviva-myretirement/

Mar
14
2012

NTUC Launch of Capital Plus (CPN29)

Yesterday, NTUC launched yet another series of their Capital Plus plan, a limited-tranche non-participating 2-years single premium non-participating plan.

Brief outline of the plan:

  • 2-years single premium non-participating plan
  • Guaranteed interest of 1.40%p.a. Every $10,000 investment will receive $10,281.96 at maturity.
  • Provides TPD before age 65 years old (last birthday) and Death coverage
  • Entry age of 16 to 80 years old (last birthday)
  • Minimum single premium of $10,000 up to a maximum of S$1,000,000
  • Cash or SRS
  • Simplified underwriting
    • Sum Assured = 105% of Single Premium
    • Sum Assured = 100% of Single Premium (if claim occurs within the 1st policy year)

As this is a limited tranche product, applications to the plan is on a first-come-first-served basis. The product will be withdrawn upon attainment of tranche size. Any excess premium received above the tranche size will be refunded accordingly to customers.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.martinlee.sg/ntuc-launch-of-capital-plus-cpn29/

Jan
11
2012

Closure of NTUC Growth Plan

The Growth Plan from NTUC is one of the more popular single premium endowment plans in the market for a duration of five years or more.

While the returns are nowhere near what you can get from an equity investment, it does give a conservative and steady returns of 2-4%+ p.a.

The interest rates in Singapore have reduced quite significantly over the past few years. 12-month 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 such, NTUC have decided that it is no longer possible to offer the Growth Plan in its current form and have withdrawn it from the market.

A new version of the Growth Plan will be launched in its place but you can expect returns to be poorer compared to the old one. :(

Permanent link to this article: http://www.martinlee.sg/closure-of-ntuc-growth-plan/

Oct
03
2011

Launch of PruAsset Guaranteed by Prudential

PruAsset Guaranteed was officially launched by Prudential today.

PruAsset Guarantee is a 3-year single premium endowment plan that gives a guaranteed return of 1.4% p.a when held to maturity.

The minimum premium is $5000 and it is available for age 1-70 for cash and age 18-70 for SRS.

There’s a life coverage of 105% of the premium amount and no health underwriting is required during application.

This tranche is available on a first-come-first-served basis and is expected to sell out quickly. Contact your Prudential agent if you are interested. :)

Permanent link to this article: http://www.martinlee.sg/pruasset-guaranteed/

Jul
10
2011

Relaunch of NTUC Capital Plus (CPN23)

NTUC Income will be launching a new series of their Capital Plus plan. This has a policy term of 2 years and a guaranteed yield of 1.4% p.a. upon maturity.

Capital Plus will be opened for application from 11 July 2011. This product is available on a first-come first-serve basis. The allocation for this tranche of Capital Plus is relatively small and it is anticipated that the allocation will be fully taken up within a few days from the launch.

The entry age is from 16 to 80 (last birthday) and is available for cash or SRS.

The minimum single premium per policy is set at $10,000 and the maximum single premium per Insured is set at $1,000,000.

Permanent link to this article: http://www.martinlee.sg/ntuc-capital-plus-cpn23/

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